Like many in this city, I moved to D.C. fresh out of college with an idealism to change the world and spent my twenties in advocacy and social justice work. After 9-11, I took what I thought was a temporary detour into real estate, which turned into a career that has allowed me to help people in a more direct way.
I created the art of city living® out of a passion for walkable communities and the urban lifestyle. And I quickly realized I wasn’t just helping people find their place to call home, but also helping them navigate one of the more stressful and intimate life experiences involving their values around comfort, safety, relationships and money. This was often accompanied by changes in their careers, family structures and life events. Increasingly, I found myself interested in the more existential concerns that were prompting my clients to move. And for the past decade, in addition to working as a Realtor, I’ve been helping people through these stages of life at a deeper level, first as a coach and more recently as a psychotherapist. In 2022, after years supporting dual careers and passions, I stepped back from day-to-day real estate to spend more time with clients in my psychotherapy practice.
While change is constant, the one thing that hasn’t changed is my desire to help create a better environment for people. And in helping clients find not just their physical place in the city, but also their psychological and emotional one, I’ve found mine.