What is your background?

I am trained as a marriage and family therapist. I have worked as a therapist within a variety of settings including a pediatric endocrinology office and a family medicine residency. These positions have afforded me the opportunity to provide services to underserved populations across various clinics and programs.

What is your role in OCEP?

As a member of the Relationship Builders Team, I am the Director of Clinical Programs and Evaluation

What is your community outreach interest?

My primary interests are to help make relationship education more accessible to all people. I believe that we exist within the context of relationships and that they contribute significantly to our wellbeing. Therefore, I am interested in helping to make relationship education for adolescence, young adults, and couples more accessible. By extension, I want to help improve the; accessibility of couple’s therapy. Beyond my interest in relationship education, I am also interested in mental health support for individuals with chronic illness and the impact of chronic illness on relationships.

What is your why?

Community engaged practice and research is essential to the development of meaningful programs or interventions. If we truly want to make an impact on the communities we serve, it is vital that we center the voices of those that we serve.