I graduated with my master’s degree in social work in 2014, initially focusing on substance use treatment and care for individuals experiencing severe mental illness. I earned my clinical hours working in community clinics, and in 2017 completed a clinical fellowship at the Kull Initiative for Psychotherapy, where I focused on psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches. After my fellowship, I continued on as a clinical supervisor. I opened my own private practice in 2018.

My work with Michelle Stephens, psychoanalyst and author of Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Back Male Performer, furthered my interest in the use of psychoanalysis to understand Blackness and Black expression. I formally began psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute in 2021. Through my academic pursuits, I seek to deepen my understanding of the role of colonialism, race, and sexuality in shaping the unconscious and subjective experience. My writing on race in psychoanalysis is forthcoming in Parapraxis.