While working in community mental health treatment and during my education, I have received awards from my peers and leadership for integrity, team work, diversity, and the importance of human relationships. However, my most treasured forms of feedback which persist through time are often from clients in brief reflective moments, such as remarking ‘self-compassion has never felt more possible’ than after our work together.

With ongoing continuing education across various intervention models and research, I aim to personalize care aligned with your needs. I am an integrative provider who brings systems awareness and the person-in-environment perspective to all service encounters. I support holistic wellness perspectives in care and have completed certificates in psychotherapy and the mind-body connection, mindfulness, meditation, brain health, and more.

I achieved my clinically focused Master of Social Work (MSW) at the University of Central Florida, along with my generalist practice Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), with a Minor in Nonprofit Management. However, before I knew I wanted to pursue social work my many other roles were all opportunities to shape my view of the human experience and find what part I may best play. I worked my way through diverse environments ranging from veterinary hospital kennel assisting, or human hospital emergency department provider medical-legal scribe. To home cleaning and repair subcontracting, health and population focused fundraising, skilled nursing facility attendant, restaurant and bakery management, live music, event, bar, and food service, retail, sales, customer service, and more.

I was born and raised on the Florida West Coast with my education and early behavioral health career focused in Central Florida. Currently and throughout my life I have lived and spent extensive time in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina. Washington DC, West Virginia, and the surrounding natural area is one of my favorite areas to visit by train and hike.

I am humanity-oriented with a lifelong study of interfaith concepts along with various world, spiritual, and cosmic views. Often connecting in nature through mindfulness, gardening, or in care of 12 rescue animals. I enjoy my given and chosen people, as well as my furry, whiskered, and scaly friends. I appreciate sustainability and compulsively learn, paint, create, make, fix or remedy.

I am grateful for the privilege to practice my profession and I believe this therapeutic work can be mutually rewarding and enriching for both client and clinician.

I hope it has been helpful to learn about me, while you decide if I may get to ask and learn all about you!