About

Providing access to all people is a core value of Soundview Therapy. We aim to provide a safe space for our clients and their loved ones. I work with many insurance companies including Medicare through my partnership with Piiq Space. If you’re paying privately, I offer a sliding scale for those who need support.

Ethics are the foundation of trust. I strive to ensure that my work is grounded in professional responsibility, thoughtful decision-making, and respect for each person's dignity.

Curiosity creates space for understanding. Rather than making assumptions or rushing toward solutions, I value asking thoughtful questions, remaining open to new perspectives, and approaching each person with genuine interest.

I aspire to maintain the Code of Ethics as it is defined by the National Association of Social Workers, including Service, Social Justice, Dignity and Worth of the Person, Importance of Human Relationships, Integrity, and Competence. You can read more about each here:

Value: Service
Ethical Principle: Social workers’ primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems

Social workers elevate service to others above self-interest. Social workers draw on their knowledge, values, and skills to help people in need and to address social problems. Social workers are encouraged to volunteer some portion of their professional skills with no expectation of significant financial return (pro bono service).

Value: Social Justice
Ethical Principle: Social workers challenge social injustice.

Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people. Social workers’ social change efforts are focused primarily on issues of poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and other forms of social injustice. These activities seek to promote sensitivity to and knowledge about oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and resources; equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in decision making for all people.

Value: Dignity and Worth of the Person
Ethical Principle: Social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person.

Social workers treat each person in a caring and respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers promote clients’ socially responsible self-determination. Social workers seek to enhance clients’ capacity and opportunity to change and to address their own needs. Social workers are cognizant of their dual responsibility to clients and to the broader society. They seek to resolve conflicts between clients’ interests and the broader society’s interests in a socially responsible manner consistent with the values, ethical principles, and ethical standards of the profession.

Value: Importance of Human Relationships
Ethical Principle: Social workers recognize the central importance of human relationships.

Social workers understand that relationships between and among people are an important vehicle for change. Social workers engage people as partners in the helping process. Social workers seek to strengthen relationships among people in a purposeful effort to promote, restore, maintain, and enhance the well-being of individuals, families, social groups, organizations, and communities.

Value: Integrity
Ethical Principle: Social workers behave in a trustworthy manner.

Social workers are continually aware of the profession’s mission, values, ethical principles, and ethical standards and practice in a manner consistent with them. Social workers should take measures to care for themselves professionally and personally. Social workers act honestly and responsibly and promote ethical practices on the part of the organizations with which they are affiliated.

Value: Competence
Ethical Principle: Social workers practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise.

Social workers continually strive to increase their professional knowledge and skills and to apply them in practice. Social workers should aspire to contribute to the knowledge base of the profession.

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Psychotherapy can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. I provide psychoeducation about different methods, theories, and interventions before we try them together, so you have a say in your care. I also value transparency and respect in return, which includes hearing about your perspective and how you feel about your progress.