I am shifting my focus from being a private practice psychotherapist to being a trainer, business mentor, and practice coach for other psychotherapists.  As a Money, Marketing, and Soul Certified Coach, I am transitioning from private practice psychotherapy to this role. I am passionate about helping therapists and healthcare providers at every stage of their journey towards private practice or simply being more empowered wherever they are working in their journey. I am a stand for spiritually integrating our relationship with power, money, and branding, bringing one’s unique brilliance to life both in business and the world as an expression of what makes your soul sing.

Being a Therapist’s Therapist

Therapists are naturally drawn to my practice, and I am dedicated to supporting them with the challenges they face, such as stress management, balancing work and personal life, vicarious traumatization, and self-care. I also offer therapeutic coaching to help therapists build confidence, overcome imposter syndrome, and become more present in their lives. As well, I love helping therapists clarify their ideal niche, distinguish their unique signature system distilling what they are known for, and create a vibrant practice that is soul nourishing, empowering you to be in a practice that you love. 

My services focus on:

•   Therapy: Processing the emotions and experiences that arise in your work, and helping you develop mindfulness and self-care practices.
•   Coaching: Assisting with money management, mindset development, marketing strategies, practice management (including setting boundaries), and creating fulfilling professional lives.

My resources include blog posts, e-zines, and monthly webinars, workshops, trainings and a bloom community you are welcome to join,  all tailored to the specific needs of therapists.

Core Empowerment Approach

My special life empowerment therapy and coaching approach emphasizes keen listening and transformational ontological coaching, focusing on values rather than complaints and dealing with life's circumstances in the present. This approach helps clients overcome limitations and embrace their true potential.

Being Foundationally Trauma Informed

Development of coping strategies for uncomfortable emotions or situations; skills for emotional identification and regulation. Coping and healing from sexual, emotional, psychological, physical abuse and trauma. This approach emphasizes choice, authenticity, and transparency in the relational work.

Relationships Work (with oneself, other people, places, and things)

The quality of our life is determined by the quality of our connections. Relationships include those with others, food, money, sex, and unhelpful patterns and ways of being. Understanding one’s wants and needs; first and foremost within ourselves is essential. From there we address concerns, communication, and satisfaction in relationships and dating. Not just living a life out of default, but consciously creating a life you love.

Integral Well-Being - Aligning with Core Needs for Connection and True Nourishment

Improving the quality of one's life through exploring and expanding healthy and balanced eating, sleeping, and exercise routines; strengthening self-care and stress management skills. Cultivating self-compassion, assertiveness, and confidence; developing ways to reduce suffering, anxiety, social withdrawal, and self-neglect.

Yarigai - Worthwhile Life-Work

Support around personal and professional growth; clarifying career goals and implementing steps toward building a fulfilling career and meaningful work-life balance with a particular focus on therapists and other healthcare practitioners.

Kintsugi Method - Living Whole and Complete

Kinstugi is a traditional Japanese method for restoring broken pottery by using gold to repair the cracks and broken parts and pieces. Applying this as a metaphor to therapy and coaching, I use this method for restoring integrity to one's life as a whole. Without integrity, nothing works. This method embraces the power of connectivity, the beauty of authenticity and imperfection and empowering overall work-ability through integrity for a life well-lived - whole and complete, no matter the circumstance.

My clinical journey began in 1997-1999 when I completed my MSW at Smith College. I hold a Massachusetts license as an LICSW (Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker #111055) and operate professionally both online and in person. Throughout my career, I have worked across all levels of care with individuals, couples, and families dealing with trauma, medical illnesses such as cancer and HIV/AIDS, major mental illnesses, eating disorders, and addictions.

•  Certified Practitioner and Practitioner Applicant for Trainer of Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy: I have extensive training in psychodrama from the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute in New York and the now-closed Omega Theater in Boston, MA. Additionally, I am a graduate of Psychodramatic Bodywork and have been integrating this modality into my work since 2005.

•  Internal Family Systems (IFS) Level II Trained: I am passionate about integrating psychodrama with IFS, two powerful modalities that facilitate transformation, awareness, and healing into wholeness.

•  Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Trained: I am skilled in applying DBT for skills training.

•  Harvard Teaching Hospitals Training: I received training at the Cambridge Health Alliance and Massachusetts General Hospital.

•  Professional Experience: I have worked in various settings, including the Cambridge Health Alliance (inpatient and primary care), Deaconess Waltham Eating Disorder Service, Cambridge Eating Disorder Center, and the Center for Eating Disorders in New Bedford, NH.