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 combine narrative therapy, mindfulness, 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. You will find that in our work together, we will establish pathways that center community connection allowing you heal with and around others through mutually beneficial means and symbiotic relationships. Over time, our work will move you from “stuck in it” to finding your peace, flourishing, and creating a world you want to live in.

Education & Training

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.