I graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2016, with my M.S.W. My journey was a bit non-traditional: I moved to Chicago in 2011 to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry. After three and a half years, I decided that it wasn’t the right, and left with a master’s degree to attend Loyola University School of Social Work.

While at Loyola, I focused on mental health care for disproportionately impacted and under-resourced communities. Upon, graduating from Loyola, I worked in community mental health and inpatient psychiatry, before moving to private practice.

I continue to wear my scientist hat, routinely pulling from the current research and distilling both chemical and neurological knowledge and information for use in the therapeutic space. There is so much new research coming out linking genomics, biology, and chemistry to mental illness that we can say for sure, it is not “all in your head.”