Masters of Arts: Psychology and Professional Counseling

Lesley University, Cambridge MA

Bachelor of Arts: Human Services with

Specialization in Clinical Psychology

Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

Certificate in Gerontology

Northshore Community College, Danvers MA

Private Practice Psychotherapist, Beverly, MA

• Provide mental health counseling to adolescents, adult, couples and families
• EMDR trauma treatment
• Specializing in PTSD, relational and parenting issues, anxiety, depression, LGBTQ, and substance abuse
• Facilitate Seeking Safety and Trauma Sensitive Yoga groups at local shelters
• Facilitate Self-Care for the Caregivers Stress Management Groups at Human Service Agencies

Assistant Director at Lahey Behaviors Health, Inc.

VOCAL (Victims of Crime and Loss), Beverly, MA

• Trauma Specialist for adults, adolescents, families and couples
• Supervise and train interns
• Supervise other clinicians
• Provide assistance for survivors with legal services and compensation
• Facilitate Seeking Safety groups and SoulCollage groups
• Design and teach trauma sensitive yoga group
• Member of Community Crisis Response team
• Specialties: mindfulness training, cognitive behavioral therapy dialectical behavioral therapy, internal family systems, stress management, art therapy, EMDR, and EFT

Clinical Supervisor for LGBT&Q Prism Program

Lahey Behavioral Health, Inc., Beverly, MA

• Provide clinical supervision to Prism staff.
• Provide individual therapy to gay, lesbian, transgender, and questioning clients

Rape Crisis Hotline and Psychotherapist

North Shore Rape Crisis Center, Lynn & Beverly, MA

• Provide individual and group counseling
• Support hotline callers with coping skills, information and medical advocacy

Outpatient Addiction Clinician

Project Cope, Lynn, MA

• Facilitate relapse prevention groups for women.
• Teach drivers alcohol education program
• Conduct therapy sessions with individuals with substance abuse issues
• Teach parenting skills
• Perform assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, writing of progress notes, clinical presentations, correspondence with DCF, and probations officers

Group Facilitator

Northern Essex Community College

• Developed and facilitated school and the single parent group, math anxiety group, stress management group, and self-esteem group for students

Wellness/Holistic Consultant & EAP Counselor

Project Cope, Lynn, MA

• Developed and facilitated stress management seminars as part of the EAP for community businesses
• Developed and taught women’s awareness groups including: relaxation techniques, assertiveness training, yoga, guided imagery, parenting and life/job skills for women’s residential program

Self –Employed Counseling Consultant and Yoga teacher

• Created and teach 8-week Trauma Sensitive Yoga program
• Teach yoga and stress relief sessions at colleges, schools, corporations, and senior centers
• Developed and facilitated personal growth seminars on woman’s awareness, assertiveness training, stress management, weight control, communication skills for parents, and self-esteem at colleges, businesses,
• Owned and operated a movement studio for eleven years, a yoga studio for six years
• Served as Health, Wellness and Fitness Director at a local YMCA for five years

• Certified EMDR training level I & II
• Certified Emotional Freedom Technique EFT for Mental Health Providers
• Yoga & Trauma
• Psychological First Aid Response Team
• Strengthening Families Program
• Trauma Specialist Training
• Trained Sexual Assault Counselor
• Brain Spotting Practitioner

• Certified Yoga Teacher, Yoga Spirits, Essex, MA
• Certified Kripalu Danskinetic Teacher
• Certified Shake Your Soul Instructor
• Certified Dance/Exercise Instructor, American Council on Exercise
• Certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Practitioner
• Certified Therapist: Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

• Trauma Sensitive Yoga Program at the National Sexual Assault Conference in Washington, DC
• Care for the Care-Giver at the Youth at Risk Conference, Beverly, MA
• Emotional Freedom Technique at Lahey Behavioral Health
• Trauma Sensitive Yoga at the Massachusetts’s Victims Academy, Beverly, MA

• Trauma Sensitive Yoga
• Drivers Alcohol Training
• Seeking Safety (PTSD and addiction)
• Domestic Violence Groups
• Coping Skills
• Comfort Yoga
• Relapse Prevention
• Communication Skills
• Stress Management
• SoulCollage Art Therapy
• Self-Esteem Groups
• Partner Yoga
• Mindfulness Training
• Meditation & Visualization
• Breathe Work & Guided Imagery
• Expressive Art Groups
• Grief Group
• Sexual Assault Groups
• Parenting Skills
• Assertiveness Training
• Relaxation and Stress Release
• Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
• Red Tent
• Self-Care for the Caregiver
• Emotional Freedom Technique