About Me

After two decades in healthcare, I came to psychiatric care through an unconventional path, and I think that makes a difference.

I spent 14 years working night shifts in intensive care units at Barnes Jewish Hospital and SSM Saint Louis University, first as a psychiatric technician and later as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. The ICU has a way of showing you the full spectrum of human experience, the depths of suffering and the remarkable capacity people have to recover. Those years shaped everything about how I practice today.

What I saw in the ICU was that physical and mental health are inseparable. Patients in medical crisis were often also in psychiatric crisis, and the reverse was just as true. That understanding is at the core of how I approach care, by looking at the whole person, not just the presenting symptoms.

I went on to earn my Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner degree from Saint Louis University, and I recently relocated to Portland, where I now call the Pacific Northwest home. I provide telehealth services to patients 18 and older across Illinois, and see patients in person in Oregon starting at age 14.

My approach is straightforward and collaborative. I’m not here to put you on a medication and send you on your way, I’m here to work with you, stay available between sessions, and adjust your care as your life changes. What matters most to me is that you feel heard, informed, and in control of your own treatment.