West Shore
Social Work
Supervision

Across 22 years in mental health, I've worked with people in acute psychiatric and situational crisis — unhoused and formerly chronically homeless, living with severe and persistent mental illness, in suicidal crisis, under federal court supervision (including pretrial and post-conviction), involuntarily hospitalized — as well as with populations often underserved by the system, including people living with HIV/AIDS, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and newcomers to the country.

I've done that work in emergency shelters, in group homes, in clients' homes and in the community, in integrated care clinics, in offices, over telehealth, and alongside clients in ERs when they needed someone in the room with them.

My roles have ranged from crisis line counselor and shift supervisor to training clinician, psychological assistant, shelter-based crisis intervention specialist, CPST, and behavioral health therapist. Before social work, I spent about 18 years in retail and had about thirty managers from awful to inspirational.