I earned my Master of Social Work degree from UW Madison in 2007. I am a Family Therapist and Oncology Social Worker whose work includes therapy with individuals, groups and families in outpatient, day-treatment, and in-home settings. My areas of interest and practice are cancer, chronic illness, caregiving, grief and loss, child and adolescent development, family systems, and issues relating to the LGBTQIA+ community. I work from a holistic approach, empowering those I work with through elements of mindfulness, psychoeducation, skill-building, and self-acceptance. I believe we are resilient human beings with the capacity to heal, grow and change.
My primary work role has been at Gilda’s Club Madison where I have been a Program Manager since 2009. My work centers around supporting kids and families who are navigating cancer, shaped largely by my father’s death to lung cancer when I was a child and my step-father’s death to liver cancer when I was a young adult. In my role at Gilda’s Club I am able to work directly with survivors and co-survivors of all ages, as well as develop psychoeducational programs to support the whole family.
I am especially drawn to the many shades of grief and loss experienced throughout life. I facilitate a weekly Living with Loss group at Gilda’s Club, and oversee Grief Busters, our support program for children. I teach a graduate course on Grief, Death, Loss and Life at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and give presentations relating to cancer, caregiving, grief and loss around the United States.
My primary work role has been at Gilda’s Club Madison where I have been a Program Manager since 2009. My work centers around supporting kids and families who are navigating cancer, shaped largely by my father’s death to lung cancer when I was a child and my step-father’s death to liver cancer when I was a young adult. In my role at Gilda’s Club I am able to work directly with survivors and co-survivors of all ages, as well as develop psychoeducational programs to support the whole family.
I am especially drawn to the many shades of grief and loss experienced throughout life. I facilitate a weekly Living with Loss group at Gilda’s Club, and oversee Grief Busters, our support program for children. I teach a graduate course on Grief, Death, Loss and Life at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and give presentations relating to cancer, caregiving, grief and loss around the United States.