I began my career working with neurodivergent youth and young adults in public and private school settings. In my spare time, I worked as a volunteer rape crisis counselor in emergency shelter programs for women and femme-identifying individuals working to survive and leave dynamics that involved sexual trauma or interpersonal violence. After leaving my work as an educator, I worked as a counselor at a non-profit organization that specialized in serving adolescents and families. There, I supervised a team of five counselors working in public and private schools all over the city to help high school students prepare for life after high school. Throughout this work I supported formerly incarcerated young adults with re-entry integration as well.  Following this, I became the director of school counseling at a high school in Brooklyn, supervising a team of counselors as well as working with adolescents on school engagement and post-secondary preparation. 

I earned my MSW from Silver School of Social work at New York University, focusing on trauma treatment. Throughout my training, I worked in substance use outpatient providing individual and group therapeutic services utilizing DBT and harm-reduction approaches. I continued my clinical training providing intensive therapeutic care in a residential treatment facility for young men in the foster system who needed a higher level of care than a foster home could offer. I provided group and individual psychotherapy for young adults living with learning disabilities, anxiety, depression, complex trauma and medical complications. There, my primary patient population was LGBTQIA+ individuals, gang-involved individuals, and individuals surviving sexual violence and sex-trafficking. 

Following my work at residential treatment facilities, I trained in Exposure and Response Therapy (EXRP) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) modalities in order to treat OCD, phobias or rumination patterns of thinking. Additionally I have trained in the Gottman Method (levels 1 and 2) and Emotionally Focussed Therapy (EFT) in order to provide holistic and integrated treatment to couples and families. In addition to my therapeutic training, I have trained for 300 hours in yoga and somatics, with a focus on pre and post-natal experiences as well as survivors of sexual violence and relational trauma.  I have also volunteered as both a clinical trainer and advocate for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) supporting youth, children and families involved in the foster care system.