Hello and welcome to my website!
My name is Desiree but you can call me, Des.
I am the podcast host of The Wellness Project with Des. I am lucky enough to interview experts regularly and share their wisdom with you every Thursday! I also run a Facebook Group, Instagram, and Tik Tok account dedicated to providing you with mental health and wellness tips!
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and I worked as a therapist in an outpatient mental health clinic for many years. I now provide mental health services in a High School and Middle School to high need and special needs students.
Besides a passion for mental health, I am obsessed with traveling, cats, and movies! My boyfriend and I have been traveling the world together since 2013 and in 2014 we opened a cat rescue together. We have rescued almost 300 cats together! Besides traveling and rescuing and fostering kitties, I am also a screenwriter. Two of my short films have been produced and I am hopeful that that is just the beginning.
15 fun facts You might not know about me:
- I am obsessed with Tik Tok! I will watch it for hours at a time and can’t help it!
- I collect rocks. I have huge piles of rocks all over our house.
- I am afraid of everything- the dark, the ocean, bugs, heights… you name it, I’m probably freaked out by it.
- I failed math in high school….multiple times. I had been in and out of tutoring from elementary to college.
- I loved school! I miss college so much!
- Even though I lived in Upstate NY and now live in Colorado- I really do not like the cold weather. Summer is my favorite season!
- I am more of a movie person than a TV show person. I start and stop watching shows all the time. I just can’t get into them most of the time.
- My favorite TV show is Supernatural. I would leave Mark for Dean Winchester in a hot second. (Don’t worry, he is already well aware.)
- My idol is Brit Marling. How can one person be so smart and interesting and creative and good looking? How?
- I am obsessed with animals. I love them more than anything on this earth.
- I am a hula hooper and was in a hoop performance group in college.
- Mark and I want to foster and adopt humans.
- It is my goal to visit all 50 states- almost halfway there! (I do not count passing through.)
- I love arts and crafts but I’m absolutely terrible at them. Everything I make is so ugly that I usually throw it out.
- I always have at least 3 to-do lists around me at all times.