Hello!

MY BACKGROUND

I have always loved working with children, and this love led me to join Teach For America after completing my undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan. I taught elementary school for several years in a low-income area in California. While teaching, I learned that I was most passionate about working with individual students and their families. This realization led me back to my alma mater to earn my Master of Social Work degree.

Since becoming a psychotherapist, I have provided therapy services to a wide range of children and adults at three clinics: The University Center for the Child and Family, Kennedy Krieger’s Center for Autism and Related Disorders, and Michigan Medicine’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. I completed an intensive two year fellowship within the Department of Psychiatry and then joined their staff. Since 2015, I have seen clients through my private practice in Ann Arbor.

Over the years, I have transitioned from working with children and their caregivers to working exclusively with adults. My strong understanding of child development helps me support adult clients in making sense of their early years and changing patterns that are no longer serving them. I often work with parents that want to parent in a way that is different than how they were parented or new parents who are feeling overwhelmed. Anxiety has always been an area of interest for me and something I enjoy helping clients learn to manage through mindfulness and cognitive behavioral strategies. Helping clients form stronger relationships is another type of work that I find meaningful.