About me

My life has featured a few twists too. I’m a social worker; recovering journalist; and an imperfect parent of three young adult daughters: a singleton with autism and neurotypical twins. 

Their upbringing often felt like a balancing act. In some ways they were vastly different and in others, aggravatingly similar (strong wills are both a blessing and a curse). For much of their childhood, I was a frequent flyer at support groups, as an attendee and later as a coordinator, on the hunt for ways to make life better for my autistic daughter, her sisters, and our family.

Did I do everything right? Certainly not. I’m human. But two decades in, I have an advanced degree in picking myself up and trying again. Every time I’ve had to find and start services, the first lesson I learned in graduate school comes around again: Whatever our specialties, the most important thing providers can do is meet our clients where they are. I do the same in my own practice.

And also, of all the coping mechanisms we can use in the face of life’s hard, humor can be a pretty good one.