I didn't begin my career in psychotherapy.

I began it in business.

For more than a decade, I worked alongside executives in legal and corporate environments, supporting leadership, coordinating operations, and seeing firsthand how workplace culture shapes performance.

Over time, one question became impossible to ignore:

Why do some organizations become places where people thrive, while others become places people can't wait to leave?

That curiosity eventually led me to earn my Master's in Clinical Psychology and become a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist.

For the past seven years, I've helped individuals, leaders, and teams navigate trauma, burnout, communication challenges, conflict, emotional resilience, and meaningful change. Five of those years were spent specializing in addiction and trauma recovery - work that deepened my understanding of how people build trust, adapt to change, and create lasting behavioral transformation.

As a Clinical Manager in a residential treatment setting, I helped lead a multidisciplinary treatment team, supported collaborative care, and contributed to building a culture where both clients and clinicians could do their best work.

I've also spent the past four and a half years facilitating hundreds of therapeutic and psychoeducational groups. Those experiences gave me extensive practice guiding difficult conversations, navigating complex group dynamics, fostering psychological safety, and helping diverse groups build trust and genuine connection. They reinforced a lesson I carry into every organization I work with:

Every group has its own culture. And when that culture becomes healthier, people naturally become more collaborative, engaged, creative, and resilient.

My background in both business and the creative arts continues to shape how I approach leadership and organizational development. I believe the strongest teams aren't built through rigid systems alone - they're built by creating environments where people feel safe to think differently, communicate honestly, and contribute their best ideas.

Today, I bring together both worlds: the operational perspective of someone who has worked inside organizations and the psychological expertise of someone who understands how people grow, connect, and thrive.

Because organizations don't succeed simply by having better strategies.

They succeed when people are inspired and trust one another enough to bring those strategies to life.