About Me

In the early 1990s, I worked as a preschool teacher at the Vanderbilt Early Education Center in New York City. At that time, I became passionately interested in child psychology and family therapy. It was the beginning of a journey of personal and professional transformation that led me to this privileged and sacred opportunity of helping others heal.

I earned my undergraduate, master, and doctoral degrees from Indiana University. For more than 20 years, my experience has been in clinical and leadership positions in community mental health, outpatient psychotherapy, residential treatment, home-based mental health programs, bereavement, therapeutic foster care and adoption, addictions, and domestic violence.

While working at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, I further developed the pediatric bereavement program at Riley Hospital for Children, where I also provided training to staff on cultural diversity and grief, and compassion fatigue.

I served as Associate Faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) School of Social Work from 2003 until 2016 where I taught courses in Human Development, Social Policy, Social Work, Leadership, and Cultural Diversity.

I have been a psychotherapist in private practice since December 2011, and currently practice in West Linn, Oregon. I am licensed in Oregon, Idaho, Florida, Indiana and Washington.