at NYC Pride Parade
Welcome to my website! I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 30 years of experience working in adoption. I began my career working as a counselor in a local maternity home. I provide adoption homestudies, postplacement services, and birthparent counseling as a private practitioner, partnering with agencies and attorneys.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts and Philosophy from Mount Holyoke College and Master’s degrees in Social Work and Public Health from Tulane University. I also hold a Certificate in Forensic Social Work from Tulane, and completed a post-graduate fellowship in Infant Mental Health with Louisiana State University School of Medicine. In addition, I have advanced training in perinatal mood disorders. I am LGBTQ-allied and committed to social justice.
When not providing social work services, I am an award winning professional actor and cabaret singer, and have performed in New Orleans, Baltimore and New York City. I’m also a wife, a mom and I’m really into cats.
I love working in adoption because families are endlessly fascinating. There’s no one way to be a family, and I am passionate about tearing down the old-fashioned gatekeeping that continues to live in the adoption world. To that end, I am especially interested in working with LGBTQ families. The adoption experience can encompass such a wide range of emotions—grief, loss, joy and hope for the future. It is my honor to walk with families whose lives are touched by adoption.