I’m M, and my pronouns are they/them. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in PA, as well as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level II.

In my free time, you can often find me cozied up with a book and my cats, Emmett and Juniper (who make frequent appearances when I work from home). I love going to concerts, art crawls, museums, and comedy shows. I also enjoy vegan baking, geocaching, word games, trivia, flow arts, and Roadside America. I’m a nerd for theory and philosophy, and I have a special interest in feline behavior and nutrition. I'm a novice birder and an amateur Trekkie with renewed interest in Japanese stationary and women’s sports, and I want to learn trail orienteering.

I primarily identify as a feminist and narrative therapist. I practice Somatic & Attachment Focused EMDR and Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) in addition to talk therapy. My integrative approach is insight, depth, and systems oriented, and I’m influenced by liberation psychology, contemplative and existential philosophy, and harm reduction principles.

My sessions are pragmatic and easygoing, but I am direct and don’t shy away from difficult topics. I love stories, metaphors, and riddles, and I like to incorporate humor for levity. I use books, podcasts, art, music, writing, and somatics to supplement my work.

I am now also offering ketamine-assisted therapy through Joyous and Journey Clinical. Keep an eye out for therapy intensives in the near future too!

My undergraduate degree is in Women's Studies, and my graduate degree is in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I have completed training in Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Somatic and Attachment-Focused EMDR, Written Exposure Therapy (WET), and Brainspotting. Continuous learning is important to me, and I try to stay current and up-to-date with research and evidence-based practices. I’m currently working towards EMDR Certification with Karla Fleshman, LCSW as my EMDRIA Approved Consultant. I participate in both individual and group consultation regularly, as well as my own personal therapy too.

Prior to becoming a therapist, I was many other things. As a teen and young adult, I worked various jobs in food service, retail, steel manufacturing, portrait photography, office administration, and caregiving. After college, I worked for nonprofit organizations doing in-home and community-based case management for a decade. 

I know firsthand what it's like to move through the world as a multiply marginalized person. Feeling silenced, invisible, dismissed, misunderstood - I’ve been there. I get how exhausting and frustrating it is to have to constantly advocate for yourself in systems designed to discount your credibility and minimize your authority as the expert of your own bodymind and experience. I support clients with trauma processing, symptom management, and self-advocacy and assertiveness skills training. I provide solution-focused support to help clients with basic life admin tasks, problem solving, decision making, and executive functioning.

What I hear most frequently from my clients is that working with me has helped them to translate insight and awareness into meaningful change. I’ve been told that my work supports people in turning what they’ve learned through therapy into purposeful practice in everyday life.

• You don’t want to “do the work” or critically examine your life. This is especially true if you are interested in doing EMDR or WET. Effective therapeutic work requires intention, effort, and vulnerability, and it’s most successful when you practice skills outside of sessions too.

• You’re just looking for a space where you can vent or complain without accountability. Those spaces exist - this just isn’t one of them.

• You’re not open to learning, changing, and growing. Rita Mae Brown wrote in her book, Sudden Death: “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” So, let’s try something new!

• You want a “blank slate” therapist. I am a human being. It’s impossible for me to be an emotionally neutral, objective, unbiased vessel. My life and beliefs have been shaped by experience, just as yours have.

• You do a lot of traveling and don’t spend much time in Pennsylvania. Although sessions are virtual, I am only able to meet with you when you are physically located within the state at the time of our appointments.

• You want to focus on weight loss, anger management, or substance abuse. These are ethical boundaries for me.