I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Sport Social Worker supporting athletes, youth through elite, and the coaches, parents, and programs around them. 

I learned grit early. When my mother passed away when I was seven, I had to find strength before I had the language for resilience.

Sports shaped me too. I learned discipline, sacrifice, and respect for the game. Later, coaching youth soccer and raising my own athlete revealed just how much the environment around a young person matters, for their confidence, their wellbeing, and their relationship with the sport itself.

At the same time, I was building a clinical career rooted in equity and systems change, working across organizations including federal institutions. I saw firsthand how high-pressure environments can quietly erode the people inside them, even the strongest ones.

As a licensed clinical social worker and certified sport social worker, I've spent years inside high-pressure spaces, from sports fields to federal offices, watching those environments either build people up or break them down. Guided by Grit exists to make sure it's the former.

My approach is warm, collaborative, and direct. I meet people where they are, offering support, honest feedback, and at times, the push needed to spark real change. I'm not afraid to bring humor and creativity into the work.

As a sport social worker, I look beyond the individual to the systems around them: family, coaches, team culture, and expectations. I draw from evidence-based clinical practice and real experience on the sideline to help athletes, and the people who support them, thrive in and out of sport.