Education
Smith College School of Social Work, Northampton, MA, 2023
- Ph.D., Social Work
- Dissertation: Recognizing, understanding, and responding to student trauma disclosures
- Comprehensive Exam: Supervising therapist healing: A model for supervisors
- Internship: Devereux Colorado (clinical supervisor and outpatient clinician)
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2010
- Master of Social Work
- Concentration: Mental Health
- Internships: Evanston Hospital (clinical intern); Deborah's Place (clinical intern)
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2010
- Master of Art, Women's Studies
- Capstone: Everything I Know I Learned from Anarchy and Trauma
State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, 2007
- Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
- Honor's Thesis: Pattern Recognition and Personal Values
Licenses and Specialized Training
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, State of Colorado, #09923477)
- Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC, State of Colorado, #437)
- Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist (ADS #12114)
- EMDR Level 1 and 2
Experience
- Owner: Guided Wanderings, LLC, January 2019 – current
- Senior Lecturer of Social Work: Metropolitan State University Denver, August 2018 – current
- Community-Based Clinician and Clinical Supervisor: Devereux Colorado, 2014 – 2020
- Owner: Radiant Psychotherapy, LLC, November 2012 – December 2018
- Affiliate Faculty: Metropolitan State University Denver, August 2015 – July 2018
- Adjunct Faculty: University of Denver, January 2014 – August 2018
- Behavioral Health Co-Director and Trauma Therapist: The Empowerment Program, July 2013 – October 2014
- Pro-bono Therapist: Harm Reduction Action Center, November 2012 – October 2014
- Pro-bono Therapist: Gender Identity Center of Colorado, November 2013 – October 2014
- Primary Therapist and Clinical Case Manager: Arapahoe House, July 2010 – September 2012
My Knowledge and Experience
Theoretical foundation and guiding models of care
- relationship-centered practice
- liberatory practice
- culturally responsive treatment
- anti-oppressive practice
- harm reduction
- access intimacy
- trauma-informed care
- relational theory
- attachment theory
- trauma theory
Constellations of people
- co-occurring mental illnesses
- the intersection of substance use and trauma
- family healing and parent development
- neuroaffirming care
- LGBTQ*, BSDM and kink, and polyamory affirming care
- individuals and groups
- adolescents and adults
Professional development
- transference and countertransference
- self and community care
- privilege and oppression
- the self of the social worker
- building a private practice
- training supervisors
- resisting, countering, and reimagining oppressive practices