Most therapists come to this work through one door. I came through several.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than a decade working in nonprofit leadership, marketing, communications, fundraising, and brand development. I served as a Creative Director, led teams, built organizations, and lived inside the particular pressures of high-performance professional environments. I was good at it. And then I got pushed out of it. As painful as that experience was, it became one of the most important parts of my education.

What followed wasn't a career change so much as an integration. I earned my BFA in Graphic Design from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and later completed my MA in Clinical Counseling Psychology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. Along the way, I returned to my roots as a painter—not as a hobby, but as a practice—and began bringing together the worlds of creativity, psychology, relationships, and healing that had always existed side by side in my life.

My clinical foundation is psychodynamic, rooted in the belief that the relationship itself is one of the most powerful agents of change. Over the years, that foundation has expanded to include attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), trauma work, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and integrative approaches that honor both mind and body. But regardless of modality, my work has always centered on helping people develop a deeper relationship with themselves and with the people who matter most to them.

I founded Emotional Alchemy Healing on a simple conviction: many of the people we describe as "high functioning" are often the ones least likely to receive meaningful help. They've learned to perform competence, manage distress, and keep moving. They are successful by most external measures, but often disconnected from themselves in ways that no amount of achievement can solve. My work is an argument against merely managing. It is an invitation to heal.

Today, I divide my time between clinical practice, executive/leadership coaching, teaching, speaking, writing, and maintaining an active painting studio. My artwork—which explores psychology, identity, spirituality, and the felt experience of being human—has been exhibited and published internationally and is held in private and public collections across the world. I work with artists, creatives, entrepreneurs, helping professionals, and leaders who are interested in living more fully, creating more honestly, and building lives that feel as meaningful on the inside as they appear on the outside.

I also serve in leadership roles within both the mental health and arts communities, including the boards of InLiquid and the Philadelphia Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy (PCEFT). Across all of my work—whether in the therapy room, classroom, studio, or on stage—the throughline remains the same: helping people reconnect with themselves so they can live with greater creativity, courage, and aliveness.