Education & Experience

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My path into this work began with curiosity, search for meaning, and wanting to understand myself & my place in the world. 

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Academically,

 

I studied Clinical Psychology and Counseling, earning my Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and my Master of Counseling from Arizona State University.

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Before stepping into this work, I spent four years practicing as a Mental Health Therapist (January 2022 – January 2026), working with clients beginning in internship, onto multiple private practices.

 

In the later 2 years of my clinical career, I founded and ran my own private practice, where I supported individuals through seasons of transition, healing, identity, and meaning-making.

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Prior to clinical work, I was immersed in research at the University of Illinois, serving as a Research Assistant in several labs, including:

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Social, Cognitive, Personality, and Emotion Neuroscience Lab
Memory Systems Neuroscience Lab

Infant Cognition Lab

Parent Studies Lab
 

I’ve also worked as a Teaching Assistant at Arizona State University, supporting coursework across multiple classes: {PSY 324, PSY 462, PSY 598, FAS 598, CDE 232, CDE 430, CDE 232, SOC 312}. 

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​Before any of these experiences, I worked as a barista across many Cafés.

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I learned to read people quickly: what they ordered, how they spoke, how they held their bodies, what the coffee meant to them that day.

 

I learned how to meet many different temperaments with steadiness, humor, efficiency, or care — sometimes all at once. Long before I had formal language for it, I was practicing presence, attunement, and relational skill under pressure.

 

People began asking for me by name. They trusted me with their mornings. That kind of work taught me how much small moments, handled well, can regulate a nervous system — and how much being truly seen can matter, even briefly.

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Education & Work TLDR; 

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Over time, all of these work experiences as well as my own personal journey began to converge—bringing the existential, spiritual and the heart-center to the forefront of my work. 

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In 2026, I am courageously and intentionally stepping beyond my comfort zone in my clinical role and into something more expansive:

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✨🕯️Soulful Living Guide- a role I dreamt up ✨​

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This work is rooted in my education and experiences—but guided by intuition, lived wisdom, spirituality, cultural knowledge and ritual, philosophy, mysticism, cosmology, inner light and a deep respect for the human experience.

 

I meet you as a human first; and focus on your heart and soul.