I started my career as a social worker in 2007 in Long Island, New York, working with adolescents facing legal intervention. While working with their parents I realized how much I enjoyed supporting caregivers and so I began working at a center for victims of crime, holding support groups and psycho-education about domestic violence in the local community. I later relocated to Berkeley, California and supported individual and group mental health services for homeless families and runaway youth in Potrero Hill and Haight Ashbury. From there, I joined the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry department at SF-General Hospital providing individual case management, family therapy and developed a curriculum for elementary educators to share best practices for teaching students with trauma histories.

During the time I had been living in the Bay Area, I was also volunteering at a women's health talk-line and ultimately accepted a position training new volunteers and supporting the agency's volunteer program. I had my first son some time after that and pivoted to being a stay at home mom. I was ready for a different work-life balance and decided to start my own business writing and officiating wedding ceremonies. It was during this time working with families just forming, that I was introduced to Waldorf and RIE through attending Parent-Child classes and it changed my world and focus going forward. I became deeply involved in my son's Waldorf school and for a semester I held the Parent-Child offering. This experience uncovered a new path that would lead me to further my education, seek out mentors and develop my own programming to support families with children. While I no longer practice clinical social work or create wedding ceremonies, I feel that my experience and passion for holding space for people and making them feel loved and supported is still something that I get to do through Parent-Child work...and that makes my heart soar. ✨