I’m a licensed social worker, storyteller and writer interested in meaning-making with symbol and image. My first book, Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance and Growth (Penguin Life, 2021) was called “generous, practical and gently radical” by The New York Times Book Review.

My weekly newsletter, Offerings braids ideas and visuals from the fields of psychology, religion, myths and folk tales of western Europe and the Mediterranean, philosophy, and social work with the images, characters and symbols of Pamela Colman Smith’s Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot.

I am an associate therapist at the Therapy Center of Philadelphia. Prior to earning a masters degree in social work, I spent nearly a decade in clinical psychology, self-help and behavioral science publishing including six years at New Harbinger Publications.

I am a friend, daughter, sister, primary companion to a young dog, oral storyteller, potter, vegetable gardener, and aspiring horse woman.

I was born and raised in Newburyport, Massachusetts and attended college in New Orleans, Louisiana during the first months and years after Hurricane Katrina.

I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to pursue a career in book publishing, where I fell in love with the studies of soul and human behavior.

I currently live outside of Philadelphia on land that was cared for by the Lenape people for thousands of years before colonization by western European settlers.