Hello! I have been in private practice for four years serving a wide array of client demographics. I enjoy working with clients dealing with many types of issues such as depression and anxiety but my focus is on sex and relationships and perinatal wellbeing. I serve folks of all gender identities, sexual preferences and relationships structures from more traditional dating, marriage and divorce to kink and poly. In 2021, I began training in clinical sexology with the Northwest Institute on Intimacy.

Prior to that, my career in social work started in 1995 providing case management to people with severe psychiatric disabilities. In 1998, I received my MSW, and in 2016 I graduated with a Doctorate in Social Welfare.  I have practiced across a wide array of settings throughout that time, including five years of research and training in perinatal and infant mental health as well as pleasure-based sex education. I taught social work practice and other related content from 2009 to 2024. I remain an affiliate associate teaching professor on the faculty of the University of Washington School of Social Work. 

Another key area of my practice, research and teaching revolves around the transformative power of the participatory arts, particularly music and dance, in building community, healing trauma, transmitting culture and facilitating collective joy.

I spent the last year developing a training program in trauma-informed, strengths-based arts engagement at Path with Art, a Seattle-based organization. I am also the new board president of Northwest Folklife.

I have studied dance traditions of Southern Mexico, the Balkans and the Mediterranean and SWANA region, among which there are both traditions to cultivate collective joy as well as centuries old healing practices used to treat trauma.

What does this mean for me as a therapist? It means that I hold culture, collective healing processes and many ways of knowing sacred. It also means that I take cultivating joy and a sense of belonging as seriously as I do treating problems. Lastly, music and dance demand an embodied awareness and have provided my most powerful educational experiences in working towards cultural humility and liberatory somatics.