Faith

Christian - Lutheran

I am passionate about offering spiritual care services to communities who aren’t typically able to access them, including transgender youth and adults, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer youth and adults, people who have experienced religious or spiritual trauma, and people who are religiously unaffiliated and/or identify as secular, atheist, or agnostic. Raised in a secular household by a Jewish dad and a Greek Orthodox mom, I am currently religiously unaffiliated. I earned a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary (NYC), where I studied ritual, ecological grief, performance, and spiritual care, and received the Robert E. Seaver Award for Worship and the Arts. During much of the COVID-19 pandemic I worked as a hospital chaplain at King County’s Harborview Medical Center (Seattle, WA), the only certified Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma and burn center in Washington State. My clinical assignments included the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit and the Medical and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. I have completed three units of Clinical Pastoral Education, both at Harborview and at Albany Medical Center (Albany, NY). I’m also trained as a facilitator of Our Whole Lives and Sexuality and Our Faith, a lifespan sexuality education program published by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ, and as a community death doula by A Sacred Passing (Seattle, WA).

Jewish, Inter-faith