Located in Central Massachusetts, I serve youth, adults, 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 older youth, 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 youth, 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

Graduate Fellowship, September 2004 – May 2005

Passed Oral Exam with Distinction

Completed concentration in Child and Family interventions

Completed concentration in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy


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