research · people · growth
Open a flower
Whether I’m conducting research, mentoring students, or leading teams, I’m ultimately interested in the same questions: what helps people grow, and what makes that growth last?
Discovering
Research helps us understand the mechanisms of change. It gives us better questions before it gives us better answers. I believe meaningful change begins with understanding experiences, motivations, and environments...before trying to change them.
Cultivating
Meaningful change is not something we create for others, it is something we inspire by leading with curiosity, compassion, and the patience to let growth unfold in its own time.
My research explores how preparation, therapeutic support, and integration shape meaningful mental health changes in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Through interviews with clinicians and patients, I hope to identify practices that contribute to more effective, accessible, compassionate, and evidence-based care.
Preparation
Preparing the mind, expectations, and therapeutic relationship.
Facilitation
Navigating moments of insight, challenge, and transformation.
Integration
Making meaningful experiences part of everyday life.
Actively seeking Ketamine administrators, RNs, patients, and spiritual/religious leaders to participate in online interviews
Become a participant!Both psilocybin and ayahuasca demonstrated rapid and sustained improvements in depression and well-being, after only one or two treatment sessions. Psilocybin also effectively supported abstinence in alcohol and tobacco use disorders.
Beyond the Medicine
The strongest outcomes were often associated with more than the medicine itself. Therapeutic support, preparation, emotional breakthroughs, and meaningful or mystical experiences repeatedly emerged as potential drivers of lasting psychological change.
The Question It Raised
If these treatments are so effective, what actually creates lasting change? This question became the foundation of my current research into ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, exploring how preparation, therapeutic support, and integration shape patient outcomes.
Selected work across research and people, where clinical rigour meets a decade of leading and developing others.
SHRINE
Contributed to company growth through operational leadership, strategic partnerships, marketing initiatives, people management, and customer support.
Harry's Razors
Developed a market expansion strategy exploring opportunities for Harry’s Razors to enter international markets through consumer, competitor, and market analysis.
Brooksource
Managed digital communications, analysed market trends, and developed marketing initiatives that strengthened brand engagement while supporting recruitment and organisational strategy.
University of Louisville
Designed leadership programmes, mentored over 200 students, presented at the Region VI NODA Conference, and achieved a 100% retention rate as a New Member Educator through relationship-focused leadership and mentoring.
Business Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Clinical Psychology
Research
Shrine.io
Growth and management
I first earned my Bachelor’s degree in Business Marketing and Entrepreneurship from the University of Louisville, where I became interested in how people think, make decisions, and what inspires meaningful action. That curiosity led me to pursue a Bachelor's and Master's in psychology, where I developed a passion for understanding the science of human behaviour and lasting change. As I explored different therapeutic approaches, I became particularly interested in treatments that extend beyond symptom reduction, and instead emphasise insight, reflection, and neuroplasticity.
Alongside my academic work, I’ve had the opportunity to lead and mentor teams within the e-commerce industry, where I’ve seen many of the same principles come to life. Whether supporting a research participant, mentoring a colleague, or leading a team, I’ve found that meaningful growth is rarely rushed, it is slowly cultivated through curiosity, trust, and thoughtful support. Across every stage of my journey, one thing has remained constant: curiosity. It has always led me to ask deeper questions - not only about how people change, but why some changes endure while others fade. That pursuit continues to shape both my research and the way I approach leadership, learning, and life.
