I am second-year graduate student in Marriage and Family Therapy at Capella University, where I am receiving specialized training in working with multiple individuals in the therapy room. I hold a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from Loyola University Chicago, with minors in anthropology, bioethics, and women and gender studies, and earned my master’s in public health from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
For the past decade, I have worked extensively in health education and promotion, community health, and wellness, including as a health educator and health coach, where I integrated principles of Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size (HAES)®. My interdisciplinary background shapes my holistic approach to wellbeing, and I deeply value the mental, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual health of my clients.
My areas of interest include:
- Couple, Family, and Individual therapy
- Pre-Marital
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Body Image and Eating Disorders
- LGBTQ+
- Stress & Burnout
- Spirituality
- Trauma recovery
- Life Transitions
My therapeutic approach is guided by a relational, systemic, and social justice-oriented framework, and I utilize elements of Narrative Therapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Solution-Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). As a certified yoga teacher, with additional training in teaching yoga to children and teens, I also bring elements of mindfulness and somatic experience therapy into each session. I believe in the intrinsic wholeness and goodness of every client, and am particularly passionate about helping individuals, couples, and families heal their disconnection from one another and from themselves, for a more embodied, liberated, and joyful human experience.