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About Me.

As an intersectional feminist, it is my mission to help people of all racial backgrounds and gender identities find and feel confidence, which I believe happens when we are able to practice these two qualities simultaneously: self-love and human-kindness. ​

 

My specialties are: helping people rise out of low self-confidence, navigating life transitions, and working through depression. I use an eclectic mix of healing modalities, teaching mindfulness and radical self-acceptance in combination with honoring cultural-competence, and utilizing strength-based and psychodynamic theories.​

 

I practice compassion, mindfulness, and loving-awareness.  These practices both inspire and illuminate my clinical perspective.  It brings me great joy to support people to grow deeper in their sense of confidence through powerful effects of cultivating self-compassion.  

 

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Texas (LCSW TX #64672), a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts (LICSW #127793), and a graduate of Smith College School for Social Work, where I received training to develop and implement my commitment to anti-racism in my clinical work and in my life, which continues to evolve and inform my practice. 

Education + Trainings

November 2023

100 HR Kundalini Yoga Teacher Certification

50 HR Silent Meditation Training

Rishikesh, India

May-Jun 2023

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Course

Laura Evans Counseling

Austin, TX

Jan 2021 - March 2021

Mindful Self-Compassion Facilitator Certification

Center for Mindful Self-Compassion

Austin, TX

Sep 2014

100 HR Advanced Yoga Teacher Certification

Two Rivers Yoga

Seattle, WA

May 2013

200 HR Yoga Teacher Certificaton

Ana Forrest @ Yoga Tree

San Francisco, CA

Jun 2008-Aug 2010

Masters of Social Work

Smith College School for Social Work

Northampton, MA

Sep 2002-May 2005

Bachelors of Sociology
University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Amherst, MA

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