About

I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist and practicing artist who offers my clients an integrative,  heart-centered approach to psychotherapy.  I have over 15 years experience providing talk psychotherapy and over 25 years facilitating community and individual art therapy.  I have practiced meditation and yoga for over 25 years, and have been a registered yoga teacher since 2003.  I have deeply studied a range of cross-cultural understandings of psycho-spiritual wellness and healing, with an emphasis on dreamwork, imaginal and creative processes, and connection to the natural world.

I received my Ph.D. and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University with an emphasis in Existential-Phenomenology.  I completed my pre-doctoral clinical internship in the Department of Psychiatry at Allegheny General Hospital, where I specialized in working with trauma across the lifespan. I completed my Post-Doctoral Fellowship with Soldier's Heart, a NY-based organization that is dedicated to bringing veterans home through the integration of archetypal psychology and indigenous wisdom related to how community can tend the psycho-spiritual needs of returning warriors.  I have assisted as a therapist with Soldier's Heart Retreats, as well as with Canyon Heroes, an organization dedicated to bringing veterans with severe PTSD on healing river journeys into the Grand Canyon.  I received my Masters in Fine Art from the Pratt Institute in 2002, and continue to create artistic work that explores the intersections between place, healing, and the psychic life of communities.  I am a member of the American Psychological Association, Divisions 32 (Humanistic) and 39 (Psychoanalysis) as well as the Pennsylvania Psychological Association.