About me

Alongside my private practice, I’ve worked as a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant at Deloitte, Cook Ross, and Russell Reynolds Associates, advising business leaders on DEI and how to actualize infrastructure and psychology for workforce composition results, team member engagement, and equity in talent management.

My clinical training started at AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA). APLA has a renowned reputation for expert psychotherapy supervision and training. At APLA, I gained invaluable knowledge and experience working with various issues, including sexual orientation, chronic and infectious diseases, addiction, and dual diagnosis. In 2013 I was awarded the Paul K. Starke Warrior Award from the City of West Hollywood for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Mental Health while at APLA. I enhanced my training at Cedars Sinai’s (now Didi Hirsch’s) Teenline, a national teen-to-teen crisis and suicide prevention hotline that supports teenagers experiencing suicidality, child abuse, and bullying. I received two years of clinical supervision and training at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic, a Federally Qualified Health Center, where I provided mental health services to individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Additionally, I received clinical supervision and training at Men’s Life Skills Center under the direct clinical supervision of Ken Howard, LCSW.

As part of my clinical, I also worked as a mental health consultant with the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Project 10 department, under the direct supervision and collaboration of Stephen Jimenez, where we worked to ensure district policies and procedures protected the rights of gender variant and transgender students and offered educational support to LGBT students.

I continue to keynote and provide LGBTQIA+ and mental health and wellness education, training, and professional development at organizations and conferences nationwide.