About

My Background

There is a golden thread that runs through my professional life:

My mission in life is to be present with those in crisis, where resources and hope seem beyond reach, and to discover resources together.

I’ve done this as an agroecologist, a researcher of prejudice reduction, a chaplain, a community organizer, and as a therapist. As an agroecologist, I worked in agricultural development in Ecuador. As a non-representational chaplain, I worked in a Trauma Level 1 hospital with trauma patients on cancer, and cardiac care, and neonatal intensive care units as well as infusion centers. I addressed racism as a qualitative researcher, eliciting stories at the community level, and then ran my own business as a community organizer and program developer. I worked with at-risk youth to develop their pathways to environmental-careers and with adults living with mobility challenges who were fighting for equal access to public transit.

Now I am a mental health therapist, focusing on transformation from the place of felt-sense and following the model of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). I have earned three master’s degrees, ending with an MSW from Boston University.

I live in Salem and work in Beverly MA, seeing clients both virtually and in person.

A Professional Endorsement from a Colleague

My Standpoint

I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who joins her clients in the discovery of the hidden treasures found in the world of emotion. I do this through my training as an EFT therapist, as well as my training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapist, Brainspotting, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). I recognize my social privilege as a White, sys-gendered heterosexual woman. Since age five, I have lived outside the US for a total of six years. I speak fluent Spanish.