Outside the therapy room, my life is full of the very things I help others navigate every day. I am a Connecticut native, a wife, and a mother of two children and two stepchildren — which means I have lived the beautiful, complicated reality of blended family life from the inside. I know what it means to love people across a reconfigured family, to navigate co-parenting with care, and to build something new while honoring what came before. Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than twenty years as an educator in elementary school settings and three years as a preschool director. My work in education gave me a deep understanding of child development, family systems in action, and the profound impact that early relationships have on who we become. That chapter of my life didn't just precede this one, it informed it. The children I worked with, and the families behind them, taught me more about resilience, connection, and the importance of feeling seen than I could have learned anywhere else. My path to this work has been shaped by real life: by love and loss, by transition and rebuilding, by the kind of hard-won wisdom that only comes from living it yourself.

I became a therapist because I know firsthand what it means to sit in that chair. At some point in my own life, therapy gave me something I hadn't known I was missing — a space to slow down, to be honest, and to begin to understand myself and my relationships in a deeper way. That experience didn't just change how I saw myself, it changed how I understood the people around me, the dynamics I had grown up in, and the patterns I had been carrying without ever quite naming them. It planted a seed that eventually became a calling: to offer that same kind of space to others.

Relationships have always been at the center of how I make sense of the world. I was drawn early to the complexity of family dynamics; the way the people closest to us shape us so profoundly, and how much of who we are is written in the context of those early connections. That curiosity led me to Marriage and Family Therapy, a field that takes seriously the idea that no one exists in isolation. We are all shaped by our relationships, our families, our histories and, healing, more often than not, happens in that relational context too.

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate (LMFTA) in the state of Connecticut, where I trained and have built my clinical foundation. My work is grounded in family systems theory, which means I approach every client whether they come to me as an individual, a couple, or a family with an eye toward the broader relational patterns at play. I am not simply interested in the symptom in front of us. I am interested in the story behind it: where it came from, what it has been trying to protect, and what might be possible when we understand it more fully. I practice under the clinical supervision of a Connecticut-licensed LMFT, which means my work is continuously supported, reviewed, and held to the highest standards of care.

What you can expect from working with me is a therapy experience that is collaborative, honest, and genuinely warm. I will sit with you, curious about your experience, attentive to what you bring, and committed to creating a space where you feel safe enough to do real work. I believe that the therapeutic relationship itself is one of the most powerful tools we have, and I take seriously the trust it takes to walk through a therapist's door. You will always be met here with respect, care, and an unwavering belief in your capacity to grow.