A board-certified, integrative psychiatric nurse practitioner and psychotherapist.

Growing up north of Nashville in rural Sumner County, my drive to foster resilience and emotional well-being began as an adolescent when confronted with my own family legacy of intergenerational trauma, poverty, and grief. 

Seeking to better understand my experience and find my place in the world, I went on to study philosophy and English literature as an undergraduate. Out of this exploration grew a desire to help others flourish, and I obtained my Master of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University in 2017.

Before forming my own practice, I worked in community mental health, collaborating with patients carrying the physical, emotional, and spiritual burdens of broader social ills. There I observed the limitations of conventional psychiatry’s emphasis on symptom suppression and began developing my clinical skill set to better address root causes.

I embrace a multi-modal approach to wellness, addressing stress as a mind-body phenomenon, nutrition and gut health, daily movement practices, relationship and attachment wounds, existential and spiritual matters, and self-expression and emancipatory politics as healing forces for ourselves and our communities.

In this work, I draw on my experience with Neuro Emotional Technique (NET), Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Polyvagal-Informed practices. 

I also use techniques from Applied Kinesiology to help evaluate nutritional needs and prescribe nutritional supplements and pharmaceuticals when indicated to improve functioning and support the body’s natural ability to heal itself.

I am a former fellow with the Integrative Psychiatry Institute and am always deepening my skill set to help patients heal.

I center compassion and authenticity in my relationships with patients. Above all, I aim to help them access their inner wisdom and healing power to uncover more of who they are and do more of what they love.

Helping others flourish is both an honor and a joy.