As a clinician, researcher, and educator, I am driven by a broad mission to use psychological science and practice to advance healing and challenge oppression.

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Background, Experience, & Recognition

  • Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology

  • Recipient of the 2023 Clinical Award for Early Career Psychologists from the Society for Counseling Psychology

  • Psychotherapist with over a decade of experience working with a wide variety of clients, patients, and concerns

  • Alumnus of formal pre-doctoral training at Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, including specialized training within the Victims of Violence trauma program, a general outpatient clinic, and the hospital’s emergency and acute psychiatric services

  • Alumnus of the two-year advanced post-doctoral psychology fellowship at the Program for Psychotherapy within Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School

  • Former scholar-in-residence at the QLGBT Faber-Llull Residency in Olot, Catalonia/Spain

  • Researcher whose work has been published in academic journals including The Counseling Psychologist and The Behavior Therapist, has been cited hundreds of times, and has been recognized with awards from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and the American Psychological Association’s Society for the Psychology of Gender and Sexuality Diversity (Division 44)

  • Consultant and trainer with nearly 15 years of experience educating and writing on issues related to the transgender communities (click here to see testimonials)

  • Member of the editorial boards for the peer-reviewed journals Psychotherapy and Psychology of Gender and Sexual Orientation Diversity

  • Author of multiple textbook chapters related to transgender mental health and competent clinical work with trans communities, including two chapters in the American Psychiatric Association’s Gender-Affirming Psychiatry, and contributing subject matter expert in My Child Told Me They’re Trans… Now What?

  • Openly transgender man, meaning I am a man who was assigned a female sex at birth and has undergone a gender transition; as such, I am able to bring pieces of personal and community experiences and perspectives to my work in this area