Yes and no. I am a cradle Catholic, Jesuit-educated, and I have been teaching religious education since I was in high school. My faith is real and formed. I am also not a Catholic therapist in the branded sense. I do not practice a faith-based modality, and I work with people across the full spectrum of belief, practice, and complication. What my background gives you is fluency. I understand the tradition from the inside, which means I will not fumble it, oversimplify it, or treat it as a symptom. Whether that fluency comes into our work depends entirely on what you bring in.

I do not use therapy as a venue for theological instruction in either direction. I am not going to argue Catholic teaching with you, and I am not going to argue against it. What I will do is take seriously the framework you actually live within, whatever it is, and help you understand yourself more clearly inside it. Discernment about doctrine, practice, or belief belongs in different rooms, with different practitioners.

Yes. The people I work with in my practice include practicing Catholics, people in other traditions, folks who were raised Catholic and have stepped away, people who are exploring or returning, and people with no faith life at all. All of those experiences are welcome here, and none of them are the focus of the work unless you want them to be. My background gives me literacy with the Catholic tradition specifically, but it does not narrow who I work with.

I'm a licensed psychologist with both a doctorate in clinical psychology (PsyD) and an MBA from Widener University in Chester, PA, earned through a dual-degree program that few clinical psychologists pursue. Widener's PsyD is psychodynamic in orientation — meaning my training prepared me to work below the surface of presenting symptoms, with the inner conflicts, attachment patterns, and unconscious dynamics that shape how a person lives. I'm trauma-informed and draw on attachment theory and somatic and expressive methods. The dual degree shaped a second arm of my work as well: I practice as an executive consultant, helping senior leaders identify and heal the patterns that determine how they lead, decide, and relate.

My Catholic formation came earlier and runs underneath all of it. I'm a graduate of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, and the Jesuit tradition I received there — the seriousness about interior life, the discipline of discernment, the conviction that the whole person matters — is the soil this entire vocation grew from. I'm grateful for it in a way that has only sharpened with time.

You can learn more about my professional experiences on my LinkedIn page.

No lying on a couch (unless you want to) and no three-times-a-week analysis with a blank slate therapist.

Depth therapy means I am working with both the symptom and what is underneath the symptom at the same time. We will absolutely address the anxiety, the burnout, the decision you cannot make, and we will also be tracking the patterns, the body cues, the relationships, and the parts of your story that those symptoms are pointing toward. The work is collaborative, conversational, and grounded in evidence-based methods.

No. I will not tell you whether to take the job, go back to school, leave the marriage, have the baby or move across the country. What I will do is help you become the kind of person who can hear her own answer clearly. The clients who come to me having tried a more advice-oriented approach almost always tell me that the answer they actually trust is the one they arrived at themselves, with support, rather than the one a clinician handed them.

It depends on what you are bringing in. Some clients come for focused work around a specific concern and stay for eight to sixteen sessions. Some stay weekly for a year or more. Some stay for years because there is always more to do. The honest answer is that we will know more after a few sessions, and I will tell you what I am seeing as we go. The first step is to schedule an initial call to determine if we’re a good fit for your goals.

Sessions are around fifty minutes, unless we schedule a longer period of time.

Most clients start at one session a week. That cadence gives the work room to build, especially early on. After a few months, we may adjust together. Some clients move to every other week. Some stay weekly for years and I become an integrated part of their caring community.

I am an out-of-network provider, which means I do not bill insurance directly. Many of my clients use their out-of-network benefits to get partial reimbursement, and I provide superbills monthly to make that straightforward. On the discovery call I can walk you through how to check your benefits before you commit to anything.

There are three reasons for this: First, in-network rates do not support the kind of clinical care I offer, which depends on having the time and freedom to work at depth. Second, insurance requires a diagnosis on your permanent medical record, which many of my clients prefer to avoid. Third, insurance dictates session length, frequency, and treatment approach in ways that often interfere with good clinical care. Out-of-network keeps the work between you and me.

All sessions are virtual, by secure HIPAA-compliant video. A secure link is emailed to clients after booking an appointment.

If you’re traveling, I will work with local laws and requirements to keep meeting as scheduled.

If you move permanently, we look at whether I am able to serve you in your new state. If it is, the work continues. If it is not, I will help you transition to a clinician I trust.

You are not alone in that. A significant portion of the people I work with have done one or more rounds of therapy that helped some but did not fully resolve what they came in with. That is often what brings them here. On the discovery call, I will ask about your prior therapy experience so I can give you a real assessment of whether this work is likely to go somewhere new.

Yes, and that is what the discovery call is for. You do not need to be ready to commit before the call. The call exists so you can ask the questions you have, get a sense of how I work, talk through fees and logistics, and decide whether and when to start. There is no obligation to schedule a first session at the end of the call.

If you are in acute crisis, including thoughts of harming yourself or others, please call or text 988 (the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) or go to your nearest emergency room. My practice is not built for crisis stabilization, and you deserve immediate support that I am not positioned to provide. Once you are stabilized, I am happy to talk about ongoing work.

Yes. The work depends on it, and confidentiality is real. The only exceptions to confidentiality are the standard legal ones (acute risk of harm to self or others, abuse of a vulnerable person, court order) which I will explain in detail in our paperwork. Otherwise, what you say in session stays in session.

The people who say this on the discovery call are almost always exactly the professionals I am built to work with. High-functioning, high-achievers are systematically the most likely to underestimate what they are carrying. The discovery call is the place to find out whether starting work together makes sense.

About fifteen minutes. We will talk about what is bringing you here, what you have already tried, and what you are hoping for. I will answer your questions about fees, insurance, scheduling, and how the work goes. By the end, you will have a clear picture of whether this is the right fit and what your next step looks like, whether that is scheduling a first session, taking time to think, or being referred to a different clinician who might better help you achieve your goals.