I have spent most of my life sitting with people in the hardest rooms — the ones where the lights are too bright, the air is too thin, and nobody knows quite what to say. As a licensed clinical social worker with over twenty years of experience, I have worked alongside survivors of sexual trauma, domestic violence, complex PTSD, and addiction. I have held space for people who had stopped believing anyone would.

I have also been that person.

My debut memoir, In Our Blood (She Writes Press, 2022), tells the story of what it means to be both the one who heals and the one who needs healing — a therapist navigating her own bipolar disorder, hospitalization, and the long, unglamorous work of recovery. The book has won multiple awards and found its way into the hands of readers who needed to feel less alone. Writing it changed me.

I am the founder and clinical director of Sana Therapy Collective, a trauma-focused group practice serving the East Bay and greater California. I am EMDRIA-certified in EMDR therapy, trained in DBT, and have spent two decades working at the intersection of trauma, mental health, and the body.

I am also a dancer, a memoirist, and someone who believes that the most radical act is to tell the truth about your own life — especially when that truth is complicated, messy, and still unfolding.

My second memoir is in progress. It is about reclaiming embodiment after a lifetime of learning to disappear.

I live in Crockett, California — a small waterfront town with sunsets that stop you in your tracks — with my husband, my younger son, and an assortment of dogs, cats, and one gecko named Geoff.