I am a graduate of Arkansas State University, where I earned my Bachelor of Social Work, with a minor in Sociology (2014), and my Master of Social Work with a graduate certificate in Addiction Studies (2018). I am currently a 3rd-year Social Work doctoral student. I decided to take a stand in my own life and assert my intention to live the life that I wanted for me. That means I had to create it by doing something different. After 1-year (Fall 2022) in a competitive Ph.D. social work (research) program at The University of Pittsburgh, I left to learn what mattered to me. I found out what I liked and I had every intention to pursue/honor it, express it, & demonstrate it by deciding I wouldn’t let any more time go by without making a choice that looked like what I wanted rather than what I thought others wanted or expected of me. As a result, in the spring semester of (2023), I quietly enrolled in the DSW-Doctorate of Social Work program at Simmons University with a focus on leadership, Advanced Clinical Practice, Teaching, and Education.

Additionally, my extensive clinical experience includes but is not limited to providing culturally relevant therapeutic services to children, adolescents, and adults presenting with neuro-developmental disorders, and counseling extensively about differential diagnosis of common disorders including but not limited to autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, intellectual disabilities, Tourette's disorder, dyslexia, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and depression. The settings in which these services have been provided include but are not limited to school-based therapy, inpatient hospital therapy (acute psychiatric illness), outpatient/community-based mental health, and individual, marriage, and family therapy, etc.