Education

BA in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies (2015), Colby College

MA in Counseling Psychology (2020), University of Nebraska- Lincoln 

PhD Candidate in Counseling Psychology (2025 expected), University of Iowa

My Approach to Therapy

I primarily use narrative therapy practices when working with clients. I am particularly interested in providing space for clients to highlight preferred ways of living, identify discourses that interfere with these stories, and deconstruct problem stories that contribute to their distress. I am committed to working with clients in a way that positions the problem as “outside” of the person and that challenges the ways that we pathologize behavioral and emotional experiences. I also use cognitive behavioral therapy as relevant and useful to clients. 

Experience and Interests 

I have experience working in community mental health, hospital, and college counseling settings with clients across a variety of presenting concerns including relationship concerns, issues of power and privilege, eating, food, and body concerns, anxieties, and obsessions and compulsions. In addition to my clinical work, I enjoy outreach with students related to social justice, stigma and psychotherapy, and body image and eating concerns. 

My clinical work is informed by my undergraduate degree in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory more broadly. I am excited about talking with clients about power and positionality both in the therapy room and in the world more broadly. I aim to be continuously reflexive and curious about my own positionality as a clinician, and the ways that my identities shape my own understanding of the world and therapy. I am committed to helping clients position their mental health concerns, or psychological distress, within broader relevant sociopolitical identities and contexts. I am focused on issues of power and access in my research on psychotherapy process and eating disorder treatment. 

Professional Affiliations

I am a member of the American Psychological Association and the Academy for Eating Disorders.