I have extensive experience working with multiple marginalized states of otherness, including those which intersect around gender, race, and culture. I work psychodynamically, but more specifically from a trauma-based, attachment / object relations modality. Within my training I also integrate anti-racist, critical and feminist theories, while peppering in behavioral strategies when appropriate.

I graduated from Hunter’s School of Social Work Master program, where I was awarded the prestigious Dean’s Award for “Outstanding Performance in All Academic Fields.” I am also doing my psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), a rigorous postgraduate four-year program in which I study the structures of the mind through a contemporary relational lens.

Prior to pivoting careers, I worked in the creative advertising industry for years at several major fashion houses. Inspired by the human spirit, I shifted focus and spent an additional decade at a boutique casting agency whose mission was to confront gender and racial stereotypes and redefine conventional standards of beauty.