I’m a long-term Austin resident with both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas at Austin. I live in southwest Austin with my husband, our daughter, two cats, and one big lazy basset hound.
If you’ve read through everything on this website, it should be obvious that I’m a reader! I love clinical books that improve my skills, finding good self-help books for clients (most are too hokey), interesting nonfiction, poetry, and all kinds of fiction. My favorite thing to read is literary fiction, but I also read almost every type of genre fiction. Working with clients who are also readers, I have a special interest in using the power of good fiction to lift the spirits and teach life lessons.
My other interests are writing, cooking, good music, good movies, yoga, and hiking. I do crafts with my daughter and can’t wait to introduce her to great children’s literature.
I have worked for small nonprofits in the Austin area for almost 20 years. I spent nine years as a staff therapist at Waterloo Counseling Center, working primarily with the queer community, and before that worked several years at another nonprofit providing crisis counseling and therapy to families of children who had just reported sexual abuse. I spent years preparing to establish a private practice with a focus on trauma. Now tell me about yourself.