A longtime advocate of human rights, she has worked internationally and nationally as an activist, an artist, a mental health professional, a program director and a trainer/consultant on behalf of victims of human rights abuses such as torture, war, and organized violence.

She has twenty years experience in human services and work with displaced people, refugees, and survivors of human rights abuses, and over six years experience working with survivors of torture. Her expertise is in the development of culturally congruent treatment models for trauma recovery that reinforce individual and communal resilience. She has presented nationally and internationally and provided training for health and mental health professionals and paraprofessionals on such topics as working with traumatized refugee children; models for the cross-cultural application of psychotherapy; innovative approaches to trauma recovery that integrate local, individual and community resources, rituals and traditions; treatment strategies for working with victims of violence; and the application of somatic psychology and creative arts psychotherapies to torture and war trauma recovery. Her passion is in training paraprofessionals globally who work on the edge, and in the field, to work creatively through the body and the arts to assist survivors of human rights abuses and mass atrocities.

Currently, she is Director of Restorative Resources Consulting and Training. Her work has taken her to Indonesia, Kosova, Rwanda, Central America, New Zealand, Croatia, Norway, Sweden, and India and she travels regularly to Haiti and Norway to teach and to dance.