Hello!

I believe that writing is one of the most powerful things a human being can do. Not just for communication, but for understanding: understanding ourselves, our experience, our ideas, and the shape of our lives.

I am a writer, educator, and scholar with more than two decades of experience helping people find their way into and through difficult writing. I work with graduate students navigating dissertations and scholarly papers, with women in recovery finding their voice through expressive writing, and with anyone who has ever sat down at a blank page and felt, for a moment, like they had nothing to say.

I know that feeling. And I know what is usually waiting on the other side of it.

Dissertation and Scholarly Writing Support

Graduate school requires intellectual rigor and personal stamina in equal measure. Writing a dissertation is a sustained act of becoming: becoming a scholar, becoming someone who trusts their own intellect, becoming the writer and thinker the work requires you to be.

My work with dissertation writers draws on my own doctoral training, my years teaching writing and research at San Francisco Bay Area colleges, and my deep understanding of personal narrative and scholarly research as vehicles for both intellectual and personal transformation. Whether you are working through a theoretical framework, struggling to articulate your methodology, or simply trying to find a way into the next chapter, I can help you think on the page and move forward with more clarity and confidence.

Expressive Writing and Recovery

I also facilitate expressive writing groups for women in recovery and lead writing workshops within addiction treatment settings online and in person. I am in recovery myself, and I bring both lived experience and professional facilitation training to this work. I created the Pause & Practice Journal: A Guided Journal for Ongoing Recovery to support people in building a daily practice of reflection, mindfulness, self-compassion, and intentional living.

Background

I hold a Doctorate in Education from Fielding Graduate University, where my research focused on personal narrative as a process of personal, emotional, and spiritual transformation. I taught writing, research, and critical thinking at San Francisco Bay Area colleges for more than twelve years. I have presented at numerous conferences and healing venues and served as Board Chair of the Transformative Language Arts Network from 2019 to 2021.