I am currently the owner and practitioner at Ufringo Counseling LLC. I graduated from Cornell with my BA in Anthropology, moved to Los Angeles with a DDD sister. I went to work in a Failure Analysis Engineering company as their Research Associate. It was my job to summarize the mechanical failures and workplace violations involved in accidents. Although the work was fascinating and important in holding negligent parties accountable for personal injury, I found myself drawn to working with people rather than with machines. I went to the University of Southern California for my Masters Degree in Social Work. Upon graduating I moved to Virginia and worked for The Inova Kellar Center which offers a spectrum of mental health services (IOP, PHP, special ed school, substance abuse groups, etc.) for adolescents and their families. It was important and intense work and I still have many friends among the clinicians I worked with during my years at Kellar. I took about a decade off from work to raise our three young children, and during that time I ran a community service project called 4/5ths. 4 times a year, there’s a 5th Sunday in a month. On those 5th Sundays we would send hundreds of volunteers out to volunteer on a wide variety of projects in Northern Virginia and Washington DC. In 2012 I founded uFringo Counseling where I currently offer therapeutic services to adolescents, adults, and families. I have specialties in grief, crisis intervention, life transitions, and dream-work.