My path to becoming a therapist wasn't exactly conventional.

Before becoming a clinician, I was an actor, a clown, a street performer, a traveler, and someone who spent a great deal of time learning about humanity through experiences that didn't fit neatly into traditional professional pathways.

I've traveled across the country by bicycle, performed in public spaces, and worked with people navigating homelessness, disability, trauma, and social marginalization. Across these experiences, I found myself repeatedly drawn to the same questions: How do we find connection? What helps people feel seen? What happens when the ways we've learned to survive no longer serve us? And what becomes possible when someone meets us with curiosity rather than judgment?

My background in performance and clowning gave me a deep appreciation for the ways our bodies communicate, the universatliy of experience, the power in directly challenging the rules, and the transformative possibilities of play, presence, and genuine human connection.

Becoming a therapist allowed me to bring these interests together with a systemic understanding of human relationships and a more formal study of psychological change.

I don't believe therapy is about making people more conventional, compliant, or palatable. I'm interested in helping people develop a more compassionate understanding of themselves, find greater freedom in their relationships, and build lives that fit who they actually are.

I'm endlessly interested in the places where psychology, creativity, identity, and human connection overlap.

One of my biggest interests is clowning as a therapeutic practice. Not the circus stereotype, but clowning as an exploration of vulnerability, embodiment, failure, play, and connection. I'm particularly interested in how these principles can inform experiential therapy and help us become more flexible in how we relate to ourselves and others.

No Gods no masters, but I love to explore and discuss philosophical perspectives from Jung, Foucault, Vanessa Watts, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Dian Million. I'm also interested in neurodivergence, the social construction of normalcy,  the stories we inherit, and how people find belonging without having to erase parts of themselves. Really I am obsessed with sociology in general, and am always reading at least one book about the creation of world around us. 

Outside of therapy, my interests include using art as a thread for liberation, Roller skating, cycling, other outdoor activities, movement, and exploring my heritage of Irish language/ culture. I've completed two solo cross-country bicycle tours, and I remain fascinated by the ways travel, creativity, and stepping outside familiar structures can change our relationship with the world. I have learned and lived levels of intersectionality before I ever learned the word, and now I am also obsessed with exploring that lens as well. 

I love a good conversation about the strange, wonderful, contradictory experience of being human.

Curiosity over judgment. I believe understanding is more useful than categorizing, and that behavior makes more sense when we explore its context.

Dignity and autonomy. I respect people's right to define themselves, make choices about their lives, and determine what meaningful change looks like for them.

Connection and relational accountability. Relationships shape us, and they also offer opportunities for healing. I value boundaries, consent, honest communication, and the capacity for rupture and repair.

Neurodiversity and difference. I don't believe there is one correct way to think, feel, communicate, or exist. Difference is not inherently dysfunction.

Creativity and flexibility. Healing doesn't always happen through conventional conversation. Sometimes we need movement, humor, experimentation, play, or a new experience to make something possible.

Social justice and cultural humility. I recognize that suffering is not solely individual. Oppression, systemic inequity, discrimination, and exclusion affect our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world.

Complexity over certainty. I value nuance, contradiction, and the ability to hold multiple truths at once. I'm less interested in deciding who is right or wrong than in understanding what is happening and what might help.

I also believe therapists should remain open to feedback, be accountable for their impact, and continue learning from the people they work with.