I am a mother to three human children, a sprawling family of forty-seven plants, and a small constellation of furred companions including a dog, guinea pigs, and rats. Care, in my life, is both intimate and ecological an ongoing practice of tending, attuning, and responding to what is growing.

I live in Portland, Oregon, on the traditional homeland of the Chinook, Clackamas, and Multnomah peoples. This place layered with history, resilience, and relationship to land shapes how I understand healing as something deeply contextual, relational, and alive.

My lineage carries stories of migration, survival, and adaptation. On my maternal side, my great grandparents immigrated to the United States from a small town in Russia and spoke only yiddish during their lifetime. My paternal grandfather was born in Germany and immigrated here as a child, while my paternal grandmothers family arrived a few generations before from England.

Rooted in a lineage of strong, complex Jewish women, I hold care, accountability, and intergenerational responsibility as central values. These histories inform my commitment to remembering where we come from and how we shape what comes next.

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California and Oregon. My clinical work is deeply informed by lived experience. I encountered addiction early in life and struggled to sustain recovery within systems that prioritized conformity over belonging. These experiences clarified a core belief that continues to guide my work: healing requires dignity, choice, and relationship. In response, I co-created Recovery’s Remedy, a non-judgmental community where individuals are invited to define and share their recovery on their own terms, free from shame or exclusion.

I serve as Clinical Director at Liberation Institute, an organization I joined in 2012 as a student therapist, and where I now supervise interns and trainees providing accessible, sliding-scale therapy. I helped open the Portland clinic in 2020 as part of a broader effort to build sustainable, community-based systems of care rooted in equity and mutual responsibility.

In addition to my clinical and supervisory work, I teach psychedelic education and continuing education courses at Lewis & Clark College and collaborate with Dr. Steve Rosonke at Rainfall Medicine, supporting patients engaged in ketamine-assisted therapy. My therapeutic approach integrates somatic psychology, relational frameworks, and Eastern philosophical traditions, with an emphasis on embodied awareness, self-trust, and personal agency.

Across roles and contexts, my work, clinical, communal, and personal, is guided by a commitment to cultivate conditions in which people, families, communities, and the other-than-human world can heal and flourish together.