Guided Wanderings

My Fancypants Resume

revised 4/16/26

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

Experience

My Knowledge and Experience

Theoretical foundation and guiding models of care

  • 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
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