I spent over 20 years at Harvard University where I earned a PhD in Anthropology. While at Harvard in addition to research and teaching, I was a Resident Dean of Quincy House for 14 years and then I worked at the Bureau of Study Counsel. In these roles, I helped thousands of students and found my passion for emotional healing work which led to me do another graduate degree in counseling psychology.

As a therapist, my goal is to create a loving and compassionate place for self exploration and connection -- a safe container for clients to apply their own wisdom, bravery, courage, and power to look at difficult issues and to heal. I see myself as a respectful companion and guide. I tend to use a somatic-based approach to help clients to access their own true self or inner healing intelligence. I believe that we all yearn for a sense of wholeness and we often suffer the most when we have inner conflict (i.e. different parts of ourselves have competing needs). Often these conflicts are below the surface of awareness in our unconscious and I use meditation and visualization techniques and medicines to explore this territory.

I meet clients where they are and suggest approaches based on where they would like to go. I believe that most people benefit from learning more coping skills to manage and regulate emotions such as fear, sadness, guilt and anger. I also help people with communication skills. Over time, I’ve found that doing inner work, through approaches like Internal Family Systems (IFS), can lead to greater harmony and peace both within ourselves and with others. I also use The Constellation Approach, to help people explore root causes of suffering. I’ve done trainings in many modalities including dialectical behavioral therapy, energy psychology, somatic therapy, mindfulness based self compassion, and Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT).

I also specialize in helping people prepare and integrate psychedelic experiences and have deep experience with transpersonal psychology. I currently provide Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) after doing trainings with Polaris, Fluence and the Boston Psychedelic Group. I also trained with Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and I hope that MDMA-assisted psychotherapy will be approved by the FDA.