Approach

My approach is collaborative, somatically informed, and strength-based. I am focused on helping you reconnect with your body, engage resilience, and realize your full potential following change and adversity. I hold a strong social justice orientation and attachment-based understanding of oppression and healing, which means I will take time to understand your experience as it is embedded in your context and position in the world.

I use an intersectional framework combining narrative therapy, mindfulness and embodiment, EMDR, and other trauma processing techniques to help you find your way to wholeness.

I am interested in helping you find more functional patterns - better sleep, improved communication, a regulated nervous system, and deeper connection and meaning in your life. Over time, our work will move you from “stuck in it” to finding your peace and flourishing.

Education

I completed my Master’s degree in International Disaster Psychology: Trauma and Global Mental Health at the University of Denver. During my training, I also completed a specialization in maternal and infant mental health, working with individuals in the perinatal period.

I have worked and trained in a variety of settings under the supervision of other mental health and psychosocial support providers. These settings included Northern Iraq with displaced ISIS survivors, Northern India with children who experienced labor/sex trafficking, and Costa Rica with youth impacted by gang violence. My current work outside of Boulder is with refugee families and survivors of torture in Aurora, Colorado.

Other experience

As well as being a mental health provider, I am also a researcher with a deep commitment to understanding the mental health factors of individuals who experience forced migration. My research centers on refugee mental health and the complex psychological effects of displacement, trauma, and cultural transition. I have supported infant and mother participants in the Family and Child Neuroscience Lab and have contributed to research with the Child Health and Development Lab at the University of Denver, focusing on refugee parent-child mental health outcomes.

See my recent work here: https://operations.du.edu/content/navigators-community-partners-elevating-cbpr-refugee-parent-child-mental-health-research

Outside of therapy and research, I enjoy climbing, dancing, traveling, darkroom photography, and engaging with the artistic community in Boulder.