About Me

Professional Shit You Should Know: 

I earned my MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Antioch University New England. I am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in the state of Vermont. I’ve been in private practice since 2017.

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Part of what prompted me to become a psychotherapist was an awareness of how few mental health providers were informed about the process of leaving and recovering from cult involvement. I decided I wanted to help fill that gap. While in grad school, I completed an independent self-study on cults and the therapeutic needs of survivors. In 2019, I published an article in the International Journal of Cultic Studies that outlined some of the counseling considerations of working with that population. I have also presented on the the neurophysiology of trauma and how to have a trauma-informed practice, components of effective worldview change, and wellness and burnout issues in the counseling profession. 

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My therapeutic philosophy draws strongly from Jung as well as other psychodynamic and existentialist theorists and writers.  I am currently a training candidate with the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association to become a Jungian analyst.

Personal Shit You Might Like to Know: 

When not subjecting my friends and loved ones to impromptu trauma presentations at parties, I can be found doing the fairly stereotypical Vermont things like hiking, kayaking, cross-country skiing, surfing (ha! Just seeing if you’re paying attention), spending time in nature, and watching the wildlife.

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I always have several books going at a time and have been writing my own poetry and stories since I was a child. If I see a book in your hand, chances are high I’m going to ask what you’re reading, and I want you to gush about how much you love or hate it. I will always have book recommendations to offer because I love them so much and because I worked as a bookseller before I worked as a therapist.

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I love a good philosophical debate. I think deeply but hold my opinions loosely. I’m a bit irreverent and love to swear.  I show strangers in the grocery store pictures of my cat, who ironically has separation anxiety and will choke herself if I’m not paying enough attention to her. I have yet to find a cat psychologist who specializes in non-erotic-self-asphyxiation.