MA, MSW, P-RDT, LCCE

About Me

Social Worker | Drama Therapist | Expressive Arts & Group Facilitation

I am a social worker and drama therapist specializing in therapeutic group facilitation and the integration of expressive arts within clinical and community mental health settings. My work focuses on helping individuals and groups explore experience, examine patterns, challenge entrenched narratives, and develop new ways of understanding themselves and their relationships.

I work across complex systems including residential treatment, veterans’ services, maternal mental health, and community-based care. My experience includes facilitating expressive arts groups for veterans through the UCLA/VA Veteran Family Wellbeing Center in collaboration with the UCLA Arts & Healing Initiative, supporting youth impacted by foster care and juvenile justice systems in residential treatment, and facilitating peer support groups focused on maternal mental health.

My clinical style integrates analytical and experiential approaches, combining logical inquiry with creative process and group dynamics. I often approach therapeutic work through a theatrical lens—examining roles, relationships, and narrative structure to explore possibilities for insight, flexibility, and change. I am particularly comfortable working with trauma, resistance, emotional dysregulation, and complex interpersonal dynamics.

Neurodiversity is a central interest in my work. I value approaches that recognize varied cognitive styles, communication patterns, and ways of engaging with the world, and I strive to create environments where different forms of processing and expression are respected.

My practice is grounded in trauma-informed, strength-based social work and integrates drama therapy and expressive arts approaches informed by DBT/CBT-based frameworks, trauma-focused approaches, Narrative Therapy, Narradrama, and Role Theory. I am particularly interested in integrating structured clinical modalities with experiential and creative processes to support emotional regulation, insight, flexibility, and relational awareness.