I have spent most of my life sitting with people in their hardest moments — and plenty of my own. 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—or even could.

I have also been that person.

My debut memoir, In Our Blood (She Writes Press, 2022), is my own story of what it means to be a wounded healer— 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. But the work is never done.

I am someone who believes that the most radical act is to tell the truth about your own life. I wrote in early morning hours, while my children played around me at the dining room table, and in my darkest moments while hospitalized.

My second memoir is in progress. It is about self-exile and self-embrace; the parts we all carry and a part of me: Crazy Girl, who tried to protect me but almost killed me.

I live in Crockett, California, a small waterfront town, with my husband, my youngest son, and an assortment of dogs, cats, and one gecko named Geoff.