Practice & Research Interests

I have more than two decades of practice experience providing trauma-informed individual therapy and co-facilitating support and intervention groups for people who have survived harm and those who have caused harm in their relationships. In addition, I have co-created and implemented a range of curricula serving community and prison-based needs of diverse systems-involved women. I consult for a range of domestic and international organizations. 

My research explores topics at the intersection of intimate partner violence and abuse, gender, race, sexuality, criminalization, and intervention — with a particular focus on the experiences of women who have survived and caused harm in their intimate relationships. I employ a range of mixed qualitative methods to amplify the voices of those often muted by systems of oppression. The mission of my work is to dismantle such systems while partnering with communities to advance the well-being of vulnerable people.  

My forthcoming book, Broken: Women’s Stories of Intimate and Institutional Harm and Repair, is available for pre-order from the University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520392335/broken

I earned my joint PhD in Social Work and Sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and my MSW from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. I completed my undergraduate studies, majoring in Women’s Studies and minoring in History, at Smith College in Northampton, MA.