I began my career working with youth and young adults in public and private school settings. In my spare time, I worked as a volunteer rape crisis counselor in emergency shelter programs for women and femme-identifying individuals working to survive and leave dynamics that involved sexual trauma or interpersonal violence. I then worked as a counselor at a non-profit organization that specialized in serving adolescents living with neurodiversity and psychiatric conditions and their families. Throughout this work I supported formerly incarcerated young adults with re-entry integration and supervised a team of counselors as well.  Following this, I became the director of a school counseling program at a high school in Brooklyn, supervising a team of counselors as well as working with adolescents on school engagement and post-secondary preparation. 

I earned my MSW from Silver School of Social work at New York University, focusing on trauma treatment. Throughout my training, I worked in substance use outpatient providing individual and group therapeutic services utilizing DBT and harm-reduction approaches. I continued my clinical training providing intensive therapeutic care in a residential treatment facility for young adults in the foster system who needed a higher level of care than a foster home could offer. There, my primary patient population was LGBTQIA+ individuals, gang-involved individuals, and individuals surviving sexual violence and sex-trafficking. 

Following my work at residential treatment facilities, I trained in Exposure and Response Therapy (EXRP) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) modalities in order to treat OCD, phobias or rumination patterns of thinking as well as Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) to focus on somatic integration and trauma treatment. Additionally I have trained in the Gottman Method (levels 1 and 2) to provide holistic and integrated treatment to couples and families. In addition to my therapeutic training, I have trained for 300 hours in yoga and somatics, with a focus on pre and post-natal experiences as well as survivors of sexual violence and relational trauma.  I have also volunteered as both a clinical trainer and advocate for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) supporting youth, children and families involved in the foster care system.