Writing and Research

Writing has always been another way I tell the truth, through fiction, scripts, and research alike. It began with turning my vocabulary homework into stories, and led all the way to a dissertation on the magic of anxiety.

Doctoral dissertation

The Magic of Anxiety

The Alchemical, Transpersonal Process of Realizing the Authentic, Creative Self: A Heuristic Self-Search Inquiry

Saybrook University, 2025 · Eleanor Criswell Dissertation with Distinction Award

Through a deep inquiry into my own lived experience of anxiety and panic, this research explores anxiety not as pathology, but as a calling back to the authentic self. At its heart is one idea: anxiety is repressed authenticity, and creativity is expressed authenticity.

Read on ProQuest →

Education

PhD in Psychology, Creativity Studies

Saybrook University

2025

MA in Psychology, Creativity Studies

Saybrook University

2023

BA in English, Creative Writing

University of Central Florida

2018, Magna Cum Laude

Selected Presentations

Wild Inner Child: Archetypes and Mental Well-Being in the Entertainment Industry

Workshop with Whitney Jenkins

Saybrook University, 2023

Entertaining the Light: The Starving Artist Archetype and Mental Well-Being in the Entertainment Industry

Guest presentation with Whitney Jenkins

Saybrook University, 2023

Fall in love with the beauty of transformation.