About Me

I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner with a doctoral degree, specializing in addiction medicine and trauma-informed care. I partner with organizations working with people who use substances or have substance use disorders, helping build care systems grounded in harm reduction, health justice, and love.

I split my time between direct patient care and working with organizations that want to better serve communities who have been harmed or excluded by traditional healthcare systems. My work includes consulting, technical assistance, and leading trainings on trauma-informed care, stigma reduction, harm reduction, and addiction medicine.

At the heart of my work is helping systems meet people where they actually are—not where we think they should be. I bring this perspective not only as a clinician, but as someone who has built clinical programs for people who use drugs from the ground up. I’ve served as a medical director designing and implementing both outpatient and hospital-based programs rooted in harm reduction, and I help organizations move from good intentions to real-world implementation.

Over the years, I’ve trained hundreds of clinicians and care workers—including physicians, nurses, social workers, firefighters, peers, and other frontline staff—across multiple states and care settings. Organizations I’ve partnered with include large health systems such as Kaiser Permanente, large hospital systems such a Providence, state agencies, and community-based organizations working on the front lines of addiction and mental health care.

I’ve been honored with several awards for this work and have been voted by my peers as one of Portland’s best psychiatric nurse practitioners for multiple years. I hold those recognitions with deep gratitude

If you are the sort of person who likes a more formal C.V., you can click here for my C.V.