About Me

I started the Post-Traumatic Growth Group after being the Director of the Smith College Counseling Service and working there with emerging adults for the last decade. Previously I have been the social work clinical supervisor at The Trauma Institute, worked in a PTSD milieu program for The Veterans Administration, and served in two community mental health clinics — always centering trauma recovery and healing. My style is collaborative, interactive, and relational. My clinical research interests include trauma recovery, race-based traumatic stress, helpful and not helpful dissociation, serving LGBTQIAA+ communities, transfeminism, and supporting other therapists. All my work is grounded in a liberation health framework, contemporary psychodynamic/attachment theories, and trauma-processing modalities. I teach in the MSW, continuing education, and Ph.D programs at the Smith School for Social Work. Current topics include: intersectional trauma treatment, disability justice, advanced clinical supervision, and psychodynamic theory. I love live music and all bodies of water, have been previously active in community arts organizing, and my best friends are canine.