I am a philosopher of mind, psychology, and cognitive science.  I specialize in empirically-informed theories of skill, know-how and emotion.
As a practicing mental health counselor, I work with adults, parents and couples using a multidisciplinary approach combining relational, attachment, and evidence-based methods. 

During my time as a fellow at the Center for Human Abilities, I hope to explore the relational nature of emotion. Specifically, I hope to look at emotions from a developmental perspective, examining how the concept of coregulation changes our theory of emotion and opens up possibilities for a theory of  emotional skill, deep sociality, and relational well-being.  I hope to develop a theory of emotion and emotional skill that is broadly consonant with my account of motor skill, while replacing motor schemas at the automatic level with relational, affective schemas. This theory takes, as its starting point, the fact of a distributed ability for human emotional adjustment throughout the lifespan.