I'm a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate (Washington) with a PhD in psychology and an MS in clinical psychology from Northwestern University. For over a decade, I've studied and worked with the stories people tell about their lives: as a clinician, researcher, college instructor, workshop facilitator, and coach. I'm especially drawn to how culture shapes our stories about desire, sexuality, gender, and identity, which I write about on Psychology Today and in leading academic journals. My life’s work centers on helping people author stories that feel authentically their own.

In my free time, I can be found working on my debut novel, oversharing on stage, or otherwise reminding my cat that he is a very-good-boy.