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Prior to my work in psychology, I spent many years studying ballet and modern dance. I spent much of my undergraduate years training at the North Carolina School for the Arts and The Boston Conservatory. These years taught me discipline, among other things, and eventually, that my mind was far too active to be satisfied in a career as a dancer. And while dance was my therapy, and a source of freedom and agency; the costs began to outweigh the benefits.  

 

From a young age I sought spiritual grounding and a way to cope with the unpredictability of life and became fascinated by the study of astrology and tarot. These tools were also my bid to understand what I was developmentally incapable of understanding during a time when life was hard. So, during this time, I spent endless hours studying astrology and the tarot, searching for answers. Eventually, what had once served as a coping strategy, quickly grew into something both fun and fascinating in its own right. So, throughout my 20's, I enjoyed giving astrology and tarot card readings to patrons of a psychic salon in Boston and provided readings at parties in Boston and San Francisco.

 

But, as I studied science based areas (biology, psychology, neuroscience), a level of cognitive dissonance developed between scientific and non-scientific ways of knowing. I struggled to integrate the two and thus continue to keep them compartmentalized. Yet, what they both have in common is that they've provided me with an understanding that there are multiple ways of knowing. And while I cannot keep my psychic senses completely out of the the therapy room (no one can), I only use evidence-based practices in therapy in accordance with my ethics and values.