My work spans three tracks — commercial writing for clinicians and organizations, research and policy communication, and literary fiction. Each draws on the same foundation: subject matter fluency in behavioral health and the ability to translate that knowledge for real audiences.

Clinical & Commercial

Writing for therapy practices, behavioral health organizations, and mental health professionals building a public presence. This includes practice websites, patient-facing educational content, newsletter writing, LinkedIn thought-leadership, and psychoeducational materials.

Sample work includes: therapist homepage copy, a newsletter on why healing can feel unsafe, LinkedIn posts for clinicians on professional limits, a voice adaptation demonstrating the same topic written for four different audiences, and a before-and-after translation from clinical language to human language.

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Research & Policy

Writing for researchers, policy advocates, and organizations that need complex ideas translated for professional and public audiences. This includes white papers, policy briefs, research summaries, and advocacy documents.

Sample work includes: a public advocacy brief on how the military discharge system fails veterans with mental health needs, a research brief on gaps in behavioral health access for people without co-occurring substance use disorders, and an academic dissertation examining the developmental relationship between ADHD and bipolar disorder.

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Creative Fiction

Under the pen name Sybil Slater, I am the author of Generations of Silence, a multigenerational literary family saga. The series follows three generations of women shaped by abandonment, addiction, war, secrecy, and inherited trauma — tracing whether cycles of silence and damage can ever truly be broken.

The first novel, Shadows of Yesterday, is set in 1930s–1940s New York and centers on Lola Gardner — a fiercely independent woman who rejects the expectations of her time and leaves behind a legacy her daughter and granddaughter will spend their lives trying to understand. The manuscript is complete.

The psychological precision that runs through my nonfiction — the careful attention to interior life, inherited patterns, and the way people survive what they cannot name — is the same quality I bring to the fiction.

Reading sample available upon request.