I'm a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with two decades in behavioral health, foster & residential care, and nonprofit leadership. I've worn most of the hats — therapist, clinical supervisor, executive director, board chair, the person everyone calls 24/7. I learned the hard way that you can't pour from an empty cup. (Then refill it. Then crack it. Then make a new one. Apparently this is a lesson the helping professions teach us on repeat.) Which is precisely why I do this work. Once you've sat with your own healing — the slow, repeated kind — you can't un-know what it asks of you. Through my self-work, I learned that walking alongside other people on their journey is where my passion lies.