My Professional Work
I am a native of Staunton, Va where I currently live and work. I have worked in myriad settings since beginning my professional journey in 2001. And spent a great deal of my early adulthood trying to figure out exactly what being a career professional would mean to me. In 2011 I made a significant shift from working in the business administration sector to thriving in the human services sector. This was such a profoundly affirming transition in my professional journey. As I felt like it took me back to the roots of concepts that had always been important to me: Ideas of activism, advocacy, collaboration, and innovation that are core components to providing comprehensive mental health services.
Over the past 7 years I have become a more determined, compassionate, person-centered leader and mental health professional with diverse leadership experiences in community- and family-focused mental health. In professional and personal development, I honor the importance of connections between community engagement, strengths-based learning, and a more holistic approach to needs-based client supports. As a clinician this shows up through a family-systems approach, with specific interest in attachment-focused treatment, and utilization of more behaviorally based methods as appropriate for the client. More specific information can be viewed in my curriculum vitae.
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My best work
While my professional and personal life have taught me much about how to prepare for both victory and defeat, nothing has been more instrumental in my growth as a human being than being a mother. Every good thing in my life started with the day I said yes to these two.
The MatriarchIf I had to guess, I'd say maternal instincts come quite naturally to me. Something that shows up in my clinical work. I value the importance of building up, nurturing, providing clear and consistent boundaries, and most importantly fostering secure attachments. And yet, I'm not entirely certain how adept I would be at any of that had I not first become a mother of my own two seeds. |
First SeedTay is a rising senior at Robert E Lee and member of the National Society of High School Scholars. He enjoys all things creative and has aspirations to become an art historian, musician, podcast/blogger, and well, many other things. He is also a compassionate lover of people, challenger of norms, and by self-report an existentialist thinker. |
Second seedManny is a rising 8th grader at Shelburne Middle School, and a member of the National Junior Honor Society. He most enjoys creating and collecting the most interesting types of things. He plays basketball as if it were a full-time job and has large aspirations about continuing his sports career throughout college and into professionalism. He is a strong, silent, reliable soul, yet he tends to be the most social among us. |
MY NEXT WORK
In the following days, weeks, and years to come I hope to impart my professional and personal wisdoms acquired in a way that feels relevant for those seeking to Increase their own self-awareness and quality of life.
For now this will take form by way of blog and podcast, where my boys and I share a bit of our lives and invites followers to share a bit of their own. Providing a space where small conversations that make big changes in the way we exist as a families, as well as individuals in the larger scope of society, interpersonal development, and being humans as a whole.
I earnestly invite you to....