About Me

The Human Behind
the Unicorns

Portrait of the person behind Glimmerwork Collective

Hi, I'm the human behind the unicorns. People tend to meet me through one of three doors, so let me introduce all three.

At my core, I'm a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW). That's the foundation everything else stands on. I've spent over a decade in direct clinical work: community mental health, crisis stabilization, inpatient psychiatric care, outpatient programs.

Meet the Healer →

I'm also a supervisor, trainer, and former adjunct faculty. Somewhere around year five, I started spending as much time helping other clinicians grow as I did seeing clients myself, and I found I genuinely loved it.

Meet the Lantern-Keeper →

And a few years ago, I started doing the work of a project manager. Onboarding redesigns, quality audits, pilot programs: I was already running them. Eventually I took the initiative to get my PMP, which felt less like switching lanes and more like finally getting the right map for a road I'd already been driving.

Meet the Architect →
Outside of Work

I'm a serial hobbyist who'll try almost anything once (most recently archery and ice skating, with results best described as enthusiastic rather than skilled). Movement is how I think things through; lifting and staying active clears my head better than any planning meeting ever has. I love puzzles and games, the actual tabletop and brain-teaser kind, and I think that's part of why fixing a clunky system scratches the same itch for me as solving a good puzzle. And fantasy is genuinely where my heart lives, which is the whole reason this site exists as a fantasy world in the first place.

I build the structure so the healers can focus on healing. That's the whole job, dressed up in a costume I happen to genuinely love.