Curiosity, luck, and a hunger for travel led me from my Pacific Northwest roots to NYC for graduate school in 2004. While pursuing my doctorate, I practiced in multiple urban NYC hospitals. After licensure in 2010, I again relocated to London. There I enjoyed volunteering in the NHS, pursuing postdoctoral clinical training at Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, and building my own private practice. After a year stint back in NYC, I returned to Oregon in 2014 and established my current practice in downtown Portland. But I’ve found that no matter where I reside and practice, I bring energy, commitment, and joy to my life and my work.

Because I thrive on learning, I make it a point to stay up-to-date with the research literature in clinical psychology and continue to find this meaningful calling to be stimulating and constantly new. My own daily life has undoubtedly been enriched by employing the same mindfulness and compassion techniques I share with my clients. In recent years, my practice has become more focused on helping clients examine and fine-tune their patterns of intimacy, sensuality, and sexuality. I believe therapy benefits from including the whole of a person’s complex and beautiful self, and count sexuality as a fundamental part of that wholeness.

I hope this site helps you learn a little more about therapy in general and, more specifically, what I will bring to our therapeutic partnership. A good place to start might be my Approach page to become more familiar with my preferred therapy approaches and how I utilize them in each therapy course. Feedback I’ve received from past clients often touches on the joy I bring to my work. Former clients talk about how useful the resources they gather in therapy are, and how heard they felt. I look forward to meeting with you to explore your valued aims, should you decide you’re ready to reach out.