Practice reflections
Reflections on care, communication, and moments from real service settings.
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Notes from practice, reading, and reflection.
Writing in progress
This space will grow into a collection of short essays and working notes—another way to understand how I think beyond the résumé.
FIELD NOTES · AUGUST 2026
Seven Lessons I’m Carrying into Hospital Social Work
Before beginning my advanced-year placement at CHOP, I asked hospital social workers what they wished every newcomer understood. Their answers became a practical guide to belonging, learning, and growing in a medical setting.
FIELD NOTES · PART TWO01 02 03
Six More Lessons for Beginning in Hospital Social Work
What openness, reliability, respectful disagreement, thoughtful questions, and a few simple validating phrases can teach a newcomer about multidisciplinary care.
MSW REFLECTION · YEAR ONEAfter One Year in an American MSW Program, I Began to Rethink Social Work
Five assumptions I brought into social work—and how professional training changed the way I understand care, boundaries, systems, questions, and people.
Care & systems
Notes on access, ethics, healthcare, and the systems that shape help-seeking.
↗Reading notes
Ideas from social work, philosophy, research, and the books I am reading.
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