Who We Are

Professionally, I am a Doctor of Public Health, a clinical suicidologist, and a clinical social worker and social work supervisor licensed in Texas, Maryland, and Washington DC.

I studied at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for my doctorate degree and wrote my dissertation on the intersection of suicide risk and homelessness. Before that, I earned my masters degree at The University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work.  I am also the Founder of The Semicolon Group PLLC, an outpatient therapy practice that works exclusively with suicide and the only practice of its kind in the United States.

I was a founding Board member on the Behavioral Health & Suicide Prevention Task Force in Montgomery County, TX and currently serve on the Harris County Suicide Mortality Review Team in partnership with the Houston Area Suicide Prevention Coalition and other area organizations working to prevent suicides in the Houston area.

I have focused my entire clinical training on understanding the intricacies of suicide and working with suicide intensity.

“Growing up” in this field, I was met with gap after gap after gap: gaps in suicide care, gaps in clinical training specifically related to suicidology, gaps in available clinical consultation. I had to forge my own path and advocate like hell the entire way. This site exists to cut out some of those gaps for you. I can’t promise I have all the answers (I am a fellow imperfect human, after all!), but I can promise that you’ll have a partner in this and that you won’t have to do this alone. I’m excited to join with you in this work.