Discover Your True Self

 I am a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Irmo, South Carolina, with deep specialization in trauma recovery, identity work, nervous system regulation, and private therapeutic intensives. My journey to this work is not a straight line — and I believe that is exactly what makes me a better clinician. I earned my psychology degree in Romania, where I worked as a psychologist in the Romanian Army. When I immigrated to the United States, my degree did not transfer. So I did what I have always done: I started over, rebuilt, and went back to school. I earned my degree in Clinical Social Work in the USA and built a private practice from the ground up. That experience — of rebuilding an identity and a career in a new country, in a new language, in a new system — gives me something that cannot be taught in a classroom. I know what it is to start from nothing and find your way. I know what it is to carry the weight of who you were while building who you are becoming. And I know what it takes to choose yourself, even when the path is uncertain. Because I have lived across two countries and two professional worlds, I bring an integrated, global worldview to my work. I am genuinely open to different cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. That openness is not a professional posture — it is who I am. Before clinical social work, I spent ten years as a special education teacher, including three years in the United States working with emotionally disabled students. I have deep expertise working with the autism spectrum and Asperger’s population, and extensive experience with IEPs and the special education system. I also carry years of experience in parenting support and child development, though my current practice serves teenagers through elderly adults. My clinical training includes Positive Psychotherapy (Peseschkian), Adlerian Psychotherapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), alongside my core specialization in Fusion, trauma recovery, and nervous system regulation. I am authentic. I am caring. I am honest and direct. I will not do the work for you — but I will walk every single step with you, without judgment, without giving up, from step one to step a thousand. This work is not what I do. It is who I am.