About

I'm a Licensed Master Social Worker providing individual, couples, and relationship-systems therapy. My practice includes people figuring out masculinity, father and family relationships, athletes (current, former, and Division I) navigating identity beyond sport, and young adults building their first adult relationships. At Wise Therapy, under clinical supervision, I also provide sex therapy specifically.

Closeness can be built in more ways than most of us are taught. People deserve to talk about what they're actually carrying without shame, and real change happens in relationships, not isolation. I define intimacy as closeness, and there are endless ways to build it.

Separately, I was a graduate researcher at Columbia's Social Intervention Group and the gAyI Research Lab, studying how human connection, health, and technology intersect, from psychedelics and intimacy to evaluating how large language models handle health guidance for LGBTQ+ youth, youth of color, and disabled youth. I'm now looking for a new lab and research opportunities.

I also founded and led Acquaint Education from 2023 to 2025, bridging technology companies, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and educators working on human connection and wellbeing. It now lives on as an archive of that work. I'm building its successor, A Quaint Think Tank, and consulting directly with sextech, adult-industry, and health-education companies on product, ethics, and content strategy.

I concentrated in both Psychology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Colgate University, and received a Master's in Social Work from Columbia, specializing in Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship in Health Care Systems. My background includes bystander intervention facilitation, LGBTQ+ initiatives, and sexual violence survivor support work.

Outside of sessions, I enjoy finding presence in my body and mind through skating, surfing, cycling, hiking, and creating large-scale art. I also work to make sure the change we seek in session shows up in policy and governance that supports and affirms all people.