I hold a BA in Psychology from Point Park University, an MA in Psychology from the University of West Georgia, and an MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University.

My education at the University of West Georgia centered on humanistic psychology, existential philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory. My later training at Duquesne University focused on existential-phenomenological psychology and psychoanalytic theory.

I completed my predoctoral clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Danielsen Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, where I trained in relational psychoanalysis and spiritually integrated psychotherapy.

In addition to my background in psychology, I earned a Master of Science in Thanatology from Marian University in 2024, an area of study that grew from my longstanding interest in finitude, death anxiety, mortality, grief, and mourning. I am also a Certified Thanatologist through the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

I am currently pursuing an MA in Catholic Philosophy, where I am continuing to explore philosophical questions surrounding life and death, suffering, finitude, transcendence, and what the Catholic philosophical tradition has called the “last things.” I see this work as an extension of my study of existential philosophy and thanatology, and of my broader interest in the ways human beings confront mortality and make meaning in the presence of death and suffering.

Alongside my clinical work, I write and conduct research at the intersections of psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology, and death studies. I occasionally teach undergraduate courses in psychology and gender studies and regularly present my research and writing at national and international conferences. I have a forthcoming chapter in an edited scholarly volume and am currently writing a full-length autotheoretical monograph exploring reproductive loss, maternal grief, death, the sea, ecological grief, and continuing bonds through psychoanalytic, thanatological, and phenomenological approaches.