Located in Central Massachusetts, I serve college students and fellow mothers struggling with anxiety disorders, OCD symptoms and behaviors, and navigating the stress and overwhelm of everyday life.

I attended Assumption University for my masters degree in Counseling and have been in private practice since 2008. For many years, I worked with young children with anxiety and their parents. Now that my own children are older, my practice focuses primarily on college-aged young adults and my work with other moms.

I’ve received extensive training in the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP-T). I draw on both methodologies as needed in my treatment of stressed young adults, anxious moms and those working through OCD

My work with clients leverages the tools I have learned as part of my training, but is grounded in my personal experience as a mother who has experienced anxiety and also parenting children with anxiety

Education:

M.A. Counseling Psychology, 2006
Assumption College

Bachelor of Science in Psychology, 2003
Worcester State College

Some of my Post-Graduate Training:

  • Treating Anxious Families: Active and Process – Based Approaches to Get Families Moving, October 2023

  • Helping Children to Grow Up Brave: Evidence-Based Strategies for Helping Youth Overcome Fear, Stress & Anxiety, May 2018

  • Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety and OCD with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), January 2017

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, April 2016

  • Parenting the Child with OCD, Umass Lecture Series, November 2015

  • BTTI 2: Advanced Training in Treatment Engagement, Ambivalence and Resistance in OCD, November 2015

  • ERP for OCD and other Anxiety Related Disorders, Umass Lecture Series, October 2015

  • Using CBT with Children, Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatric Academy, February 2015

  • Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI), International OCD Foundation, November 2012

  • Face Your Fears: How to Conduct Good Exposure Therapy Across Diagnoses, October 2012