I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who began practicing psychotherapy in 2012. After several years of experience working in both public mental health and private/corporate group practice, it became very apparent to me that I wanted to do things differently than many of the leaders who ran the organizations I worked for.

I wanted to create a place where therapists who are passionate about social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion are able to thrive and provide effective and meaningful psychotherapy for people who are often disenfranchised by institutional racism, misogyny, bigotry, and their impact on the American healthcare system.

After witnessing countless variations of the above issues in a multitude of healthcare environments, I decided it was time to take matters into my own hands, and create an inclusive anti-racist practice environment which provides culturally-appropriate and trauma-informed mental health care.

I decided that how I represent myself as a therapist and my complicity in the perpetuation of the above systems matters. I decided that I would no longer allow ignorance, fear, corporate greed, and white fragility to impede me from doing what needs to be done. To me, doing the right thing matters.

With that determination, I founded Matter Mental Health.