About Me

I am a doctorally prepared psychiatric nurse practitioner with a specialty in addiction medicine and previous training in western herbalism. My passion is health justice and trauma informed care. The most important work I do (second to direct patient care) is education and consulting work for organizations and individuals who want to be better care providers for vulnerable populations. I focus all parts of my practice on radical public health, harm reduction and anti-oppression work. I reside in Portland, OR, on Chinook, Kathlamet, Clackamas and Kalapuya land. I live with my partner and child, and far too many animals.   

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All kinds of organizations hire me to offer education on trauma informed care, harm reduction, medications for substance use disorder and more! Classes and workshops can be individualized but generally focus on some core themes for health justice and pharmacotherapies for addiction. Likewise, I am often hired to do consult work for organizations who are looking to build or improve clinical systems for the treatment of co-occurring disorders and integrated care, with a specialty focus on building healthy systems to support medications for addiction treatment and helping to operationalize trauma informed care.