I got my Master's degree in counseling in 2010. Before I became a therapist, I was a world traveler, and one of my first stops was to Nepal, where I attended my first somatic, mindfulness-based retreat; the year was 1997 and I was twenty-five. I was twenty-four when I left home and I returned home seven years later.

While in India, I learned Hindi and began a humanitarian craft business with groups of families who lived near the border of Pakistan. I also did a lot of hiking in the Himalayan mountains, and continued to attend Vipassana somatic mindfulness retreats scattered throughout Asia. I've now been practicing mindfulness for 29 years. In 2003, I returned home to the USA, enrolled in college, and became an LCSW psychotherapist. In college, I studied somatic, mindfulness-based therapies, and become trained in EMDR, IFS, MBCT, and DBT, for treatment of PTSD, anxiety, and mood disorders, among other diagnoses.

In addition to my love of psychology and my therapy job, I am a musician (I play synthesizer, guitar, sing, write songs), I paint, craft, spend time with my family and friends, and snuggle my kittens.