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I spent over a decade in agency-based social work practice before becoming a full-time consultant and therapist in 2018. Much of my career was spent in court-based settings, where I led alternative to incarceration programs for adolescents and adults. I launched new programs and led interdisciplinary teams, including creating an internal training institute serving a staff of over 500. My focus has always been on bringing our organizational practices and policies into greater alignment with liberatory values.
In addition to my independent consulting work, I provide clinical supervision and individual therapy through the Critical Therapy Institute. I have also previously supervised clinicians through the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy's Trauma Studies Center, Getting Out and Staying Out, Interfaith Prison Ministry for Women, and Women's Prison Association. I have taught anti-oppressive social work courses at NYU and John Jay College. I founded the RISE: Social Work to End Oppression collective, a multiracial group of radical social workers that hosted social justice conferences and convenings in the NYC-area from 2009-2013.
I completed my undergraduate studies at Naropa University in Contemplative Psychology, with a concentration in Health and Healing. I received my MSW from the Silver School of Social Work at NYU, with a focus on Clinical Policy/Practice. I also completed advanced training in clinical supervision through Smith College, liberatory psychoanalysis through the Critical Therapy Institute, and attachment-based somatic interventions through the AEDP Institute, and with past supervisors Dr. Claire Haiman, and Dr. Jacob Ham.
My work integrating social justice values into social service work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the emerging social work leader award by the National Association of Social Workers, NYC Chapter. I am a licensed clinical social worker in the state of New York.
Learn more about my professional history on LinkedIn.
In my free time I'm an active member of my local community garden, involved in local mutual aid/food justice projects, a voracious reader and film lover. You can often find me on my bike, with my hands in some dirt, or near the water.
In addition to my independent consulting work, I provide clinical supervision and individual therapy through the Critical Therapy Institute. I have also previously supervised clinicians through the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy's Trauma Studies Center, Getting Out and Staying Out, Interfaith Prison Ministry for Women, and Women's Prison Association. I have taught anti-oppressive social work courses at NYU and John Jay College. I founded the RISE: Social Work to End Oppression collective, a multiracial group of radical social workers that hosted social justice conferences and convenings in the NYC-area from 2009-2013.
I completed my undergraduate studies at Naropa University in Contemplative Psychology, with a concentration in Health and Healing. I received my MSW from the Silver School of Social Work at NYU, with a focus on Clinical Policy/Practice. I also completed advanced training in clinical supervision through Smith College, liberatory psychoanalysis through the Critical Therapy Institute, and attachment-based somatic interventions through the AEDP Institute, and with past supervisors Dr. Claire Haiman, and Dr. Jacob Ham.
My work integrating social justice values into social service work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the emerging social work leader award by the National Association of Social Workers, NYC Chapter. I am a licensed clinical social worker in the state of New York.
Learn more about my professional history on LinkedIn.
In my free time I'm an active member of my local community garden, involved in local mutual aid/food justice projects, a voracious reader and film lover. You can often find me on my bike, with my hands in some dirt, or near the water.
