I am a licensed social worker and author of Tarot for Change (2021, Penguin Life) which was called “wise, generous and gently radical” by The New York Times Book Review. With artist Xaviera López, I am co-creator of The Change Tarot (Hay House, 2024). I am also a friend, daughter, sister, primary companion to a dog, oral storyteller, and aspiring horse woman. I live and work in coastal New England.

I have worked in the psychology field since 2010 in various capacities from editorial to clinical, including six years with behavioral psychology book publisher New Harbinger Publications. My first book and adjacent work—interpreting Pamela Colman Smith’s images from the iconic Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot through the lens of mindfulness-based behavioral therapies—has been featured by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Vogue, and more.

I have worked as a clinician in various settings including partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, individual, and group therapy. I have a masters degree in social work and have completed a yearlong narrative therapy program with Jill Freedman and Gene Combs. I have been especially interested in exploring ways to adapt narrative practice for work in non-clinical spaces, which has yielded a small-group journaling workshop, Exposing Secret Texts to the Future.

My work in recent years has been primarily concerned with grief, loss, and mourning. My bestselling newsletter Offerings explores the ways significant loss experiences affirm the relational nature of identity, as well as how the stories we tell ourselves and each other about loss condition both what we experience and the meanings that are available to be made in such times.