I’m a cultural historian and psychotherapist writing about what happens when institutions stop holding us, and how that reshapes attachment, belonging, and our capacity to rest.

I trained first as a historian (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) and am now completing a doctorate in clinical psychology at the Wright Institute. My work traces how the risks of everyday life—illness, aging, childcare, economic precarity—are no longer absorbed by public institutions, but are pushed into families, bodies, and the marketplace.

I’m writing a book, The Inheritance Complex, that reads contemporary anxiety, burnout, and exhaustion not as personal failures but as records of a society that no longer holds us up together. It shifts the question from “what’s wrong with me?” to “what have I been made to carry alone?”

My essays have appeared in The Nation, Psyche, Next City, Dwell, and elsewhere. I will begin my predoctoral clinical residency at Access Institute, a psychodynamic community clinic in San Francisco, in September 2026.

Raised in Athens, Georgia, I now live in Berkeley, California, where I still use “y’all,” unapologetically.