My goal is simple: you leave feeling seen, heard, and like yourself, just a little more confident. Here's how I got there.

My path wasn't exactly a straight line. I started college thinking I'd go into psychology, and I did — I have a bachelor's degree in it. But somewhere along the way I realized I wanted to actually do something with what I was learning about people, not just study it, so I went back to school for a second bachelor's in nursing.

From there, I landed in the Pediatric ICU at Children's Hospital in DC, where I spent five years learning what it really means to stay calm under pressure and pay attention to the details that matter. During this time, I simultaneously went through grad school to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. Since then I've worked in primary care, which is where I learned to truly listen to patients and treat the whole person, not just the thing they came in for.

Aesthetics found me on the side of all that, and it stuck, because it's the perfect mix of the science I've spent my whole career learning, and giving patients the confidence they didn’t necessarily know they needed.

But if you ask me what I actually care about most, it's not Botox. It's you leaving here feeling accepted and heard, like you just spent an hour with a friend who happens to have a medical degree. That's the whole point of Poppy: real clinical training, an eye for what looks natural, and a room where you never have to explain yourself twice.