Practice Experience

I bring a decade of policy advocacy, community engagement, and clinical experience to my work addressing interpersonal and family violence. This experience informs my focus on alternatives to punitive strategies for addressing co-occurring intimate partner violence (IPV) and child maltreatment (CM) that center survivor safety while directly engaging those responsible for harm.

Clinical Experience

Group Therapist and Co-facilitator, Wellspring Family Services Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP)

Intervention for primarily court-mandated clients to address domestic violence behaviors and fathering after violence, 2015 - 2016

Triage Therapist, Wellspring Family Services Employee Assistance Program

Triage intake and assessment, crisis intervention, resource referral, 2015 - 2016

Therapist, Wellspring Family Services Counseling Program

Provided individual and couples therapy with emphasis on issues related to trauma and abuse victimization and perpetration, and clients with traits associated with personality disorders, 2013 - 2015

Clinical Intern, University of Michigan Health Systems, Child & Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry

Provided family systems assessment and intervention with children and caregivers in an inpatient setting, including team-based case conceptualization and consultation, family sessions, and discharge planning, 09/2012 - 05/2013

Group Therapist & Co-facilitator, Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County, Reflectively Embracing Nonviolence through Education for Women (RENEW)

Trauma-informed group intervention for women who have used force referred via the court and child welfare systems, 02/2012 - 05/2012

Clinical Intern, Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County, Alternatives to Domestic Aggression (ADA)

Group intervention for domestic violence for court referred men, 09/2011 - 05/2012

Policy Experience

Public Affairs Manager (Alaska), Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest

Supervision of organizing/outreach team, legislative bill tracking and advocacy, agency-based coordinator and liaison with stakeholder groups, and polling and consulting professionals for ballot initiative campaign, 07/2009 - 11/2010

Legislative Aide, Representative Pete Petersen,
Alaska State House of Representatives, Juneau, AK, 01/2009 - 05/2009

Field Organizer, Barack Obama's Campaign for Change,
and Obama for America, IA, OH, PA, IN, KY, AK, 12/2007 - 11/2008