Where evidence-based parenting meets everyday life—supporting both your child’s growth and your own mental health.
I’ll translate the science of attachment and emotion regulation into practical, doable, and simple strategies you can implement to make parenting feel easier and more enjoyable.
I’m so glad
you’re here!
without shame, guilt, or overwhelm
parenting can feel easier
There’s no one-size-fits-all parenting style.
When we understand how our children’s brains work, we can parent more effectively—and feel more confident doing it.
Supporting you is essential to supporting your child.
Connection is the foundation of healthy development—for our kids and for ourselves.
It comes down to a few guiding principles
When I began my career, I worked primarily with adults with chronic childhood trauma, helping them regulate overwhelming emotions, address trauma, and heal attachment wounds that were often formed in childhood.
But when I became a mom myself, everything shifted. I started to see how the tools I was using to help my adult clients feel seen, safe, and emotionally supported were the very same things I was instinctively doing with my own child.
I realized that if I could teach parents how to foster these emotional foundations from the start, I could help the next generation grow up feeling resilient, confident, and deeply connected.
So I pivoted my work and began focusing on supporting parents, teacher, and caregivers from day one, using attachment science and child psychology to raise healthier, more emotionally attuned kids.
That was my ah-ha moment.
Where it all started...
My Securely Attached podcast
The heart of my current work lies in supporting parents like you through the following resources:
In addition to spending over a decade working across diverse clinical settings, including co-founding Upshur Bren Psychology Group, a private group practice in Westchester, NY, I am also a mom of two. I’ve seen firsthand how the same tools that help children and adults heal in therapy—attunement, connection, co-regulation—are the very ones that help us thrive as parents, too.
Over a Decade of
Real-World Experience
I’m committed to ongoing learning and have trained in a variety of evidence-based approaches and modalities, including SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C), DBT, psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness-based techniques, and somatic work focused on nervous system regulation. These tools allow me to meet families where they are, blending deep clinical insight with strategies that actually work in the everyday chaos of parenting.
Lifelong Learning
Clinical Training
I earned my doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Long Island University and completed my postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center. There, I received advanced training in relational psychotherapy, child development, and neuropsychological assessment—all of which deeply inform my parenting work today.
