I graduated in 1998 with an art degree from the University of Maryland and relocated to Portland, Oregon with a Gateway PC, a positive attitude and a telecommuting job for Ma Bell building hundreds of HTML pages. I had my first cell phone—it was large. Cats hadn't taken over the internet, and Portland wasn't putting birds on things. I landed in St. Louis, Missouri in 2004, and am currently on my way to relocating to Vermont.

In 2019, after nearly 20 years of working in the graphic design industry, I hung up my computer and enrolled in the Art Therapy program at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.

Four years and 700 hours of practicum experience later, I am eager to apply my learning and bring the unique modality of art therapy to my counseling practice. I work from a trauma-informed relational cultural and person-centered theoretical lens. The coursework I have completed through the program at SIUE is strongly informed from a diversity, equity, and socio-cultural perspective with a focus on how structural inequities contribute to issues in mental health.

I love learning about people and how they experience the world.