A LITTLE BIT ABOUT Maureen

I hope to stay oriented toward curiosity all my life – about the world and who I am becoming. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago with my parents and two older brothers. I later started my teaching career in Wisconsin where I attended undergrad. In 2021, I honored the pull the mountains had on me and with my now husband and our beloved dog Oliver, named after one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, we moved west. I love sun rises, teaching and practicing yoga, hiking, knitting, traveling and I am an avid reader. I try to find the balance between ritual and new experiences. Any chance I can, I love to explore my own creativity.

Why I am pursuing a career as a Marriage and Family Therapist

I began my career as a middle and high school English teacher. I loved this work and am deeply grateful to every student and family that touched my life and invited me into knowing myself better. Oftentimes challenges that arose within the school day had clear roots and context outside the present moment in the classroom. I found myself really enjoying the relational aspect of this work, but often felt lost in the lack of time, space, education, and resources to support what was happening below the surface for my students. Seeing this over and over again in the classroom widened my eyes to the unexpressed hardships showing up beneath the surface for people throughout adulthood.

I believe our relationships have the power to both influence and even shape how we show up in the world. All people are deserving of being honestly known by themselves and their loved ones, assigned or chosen. My personal and professional experiences have shown me the ways that attuning to others, setting boundaries where needed and taking up space myself have offered more depth and fullness to my life. With change as our only constant, it makes sense that there are times when slowing down and looking at relationships closely can support their evolution towards something more nourishing to meet changing needs.

Therapy has been a gift in my life from both seats. It is not lost on me what a privilege it is to be with people in their vulnerability through the parts of life that feel unresolved or difficult to manage alone. My hope is to support clients in recognizing emerging parts of themselves and gaining skills and clarity to communicate their inner world, experiences, and desires to their loved ones, including themselves.  

Credentials

Marriage and Family Therapy Candidate - Regis University - Expected Graduation August 2026

ICEEFT Trained - Emotionally Focused Therapy

Bachelor of Science - Secondary Education and English Language Arts

Random ‘fun facts’ about me!

Best Goal: To keep my joy in one hand even when difficult seasons of life arrive

Best Habit: My yoga practice 

Best Reason to Be Happy: I somehow landed in the lives of so many people that I now hold dear 

Best Legal Route to Joy: the release of a new Taylor Swift album in the company of friends who have been in it with me since the start

Best Flaw: An inability to limit the amount of books I welcome into my library regardless of my reading pace or bookshelf space

Best Accomplishment: I am deeply proud of the ways I have nurtured the relationships in my life, near and far. 

Best Motto: “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”― Rainer Maria Rilke

Best Under Appreciated Skill:My obscure detail memory is that of an elephant

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