About Me
I am a licensed independent clinical social worker and therapist, offering individual psychotherapy with equine interaction. My interests at Moonlight Ranch are within the realms of spirituality and relationship with animals and nature to promote a greater sense of wellbeing, resilience, and connection with oneself and others.
Relationship with animals and nature has been part of my life and understanding of spirituality for as long as I can remember. These experiences have taught me lessons about life, relationships, and being human, how to slow down and really listen, to observe and feel an aliveness, spirit and wisdom in all things. These feelings of connection bring a sense of purpose, hope, and comfort during difficult times, expanding heart centered feelings of warmth and compassion. It has helped to weave meaning into life and feel part of the more than human world and part of something more expansive than what we ordinarily perceive with our external senses. I have a long history of learning from horses in particular, having known them since childhood, and credit them as my original teachers for what I needed to know about being a therapist.
Over the years, I have met with individuals and families of various identities and backgrounds across the lifespan within residential, school, and community-based outpatient settings. My educational background involves brain and cognitive sciences and clinical social work studies with a focus on trauma healing, earning a Master of Social Work in 2017. I received by LICSW in 2019, began an independent practice the next year, and in January 2021 became certified in Embodied Equine Psychotherapy™, an embodied, experiential, and relational therapy approach, and soon after joined Moonlight Ranch.
Relationship with animals and nature has been part of my life and understanding of spirituality for as long as I can remember. These experiences have taught me lessons about life, relationships, and being human, how to slow down and really listen, to observe and feel an aliveness, spirit and wisdom in all things. These feelings of connection bring a sense of purpose, hope, and comfort during difficult times, expanding heart centered feelings of warmth and compassion. It has helped to weave meaning into life and feel part of the more than human world and part of something more expansive than what we ordinarily perceive with our external senses. I have a long history of learning from horses in particular, having known them since childhood, and credit them as my original teachers for what I needed to know about being a therapist.
Over the years, I have met with individuals and families of various identities and backgrounds across the lifespan within residential, school, and community-based outpatient settings. My educational background involves brain and cognitive sciences and clinical social work studies with a focus on trauma healing, earning a Master of Social Work in 2017. I received by LICSW in 2019, began an independent practice the next year, and in January 2021 became certified in Embodied Equine Psychotherapy™, an embodied, experiential, and relational therapy approach, and soon after joined Moonlight Ranch.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. - Einstein
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