About me

As a person who has struggled with my own mental wellness, I am passionate and driven to pass on what I have learned to those that are struggling. I am a human, being human, amongst other humans - making mistakes, failing forward, and learning to love myself in the process. 

I am a former accountant and stay at home mom who found her "what I want to be when I grow up" later in life. With the help and encouragement of family, friends and mentors, I went back to school and earned my master's in clinical psychology from Antioch University in 2022. I am now actively pursuing my licensure as an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. I have over 4 years of experience working with individuals with varying mental health issues, and with various degrees of functioning. My experience thus far has been working with individuals and groups at the residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient levels of care, working with high school students at a local high school, as well as individuals in private practice with IJ Therapy LA. I look forward to expanding my practice to relationships, families and groups on an outpatient basis.

As a mother of a child with ADHD and learning differences, and another child with Down syndrome, I am particularly interested in the unique mental health issues that arise in persons with IDD and neurodivergence. I have dedicated part of my practice to these individuals, their relationships, families and communities.

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Supervised by Irina Jodzio, LMFT #101107