Born on 13 August 1959 in Panevėžys.
In 1985 graduated from Kaunas Medical Institute (now Lithuanian University of Health Sciences). She became a psychiatrist, worked in psychiatric hospitals, as well as in journalism, editing the weekly newspaper "Lituanica". In 1998, after winning an Artslink scholarship, she spent a month at the University of Iowa's Writers' Program, where she found out about the US National Association for Poetry Therapy and became a member of the Association. In 1998, she graduated from the University of Iowa's Creative Writing Program, and in 2005 she completed the US National Federation for Bibliotherapy-Poetry Therapy's graduate program and obtained a certificate as a qualified poetry therapist-bibliotherapist. Since then, she has been working with poetry therapy groups and often travels to various conferences to give presentations and lectures about her experience. She has been living in Klaipėda since 2006. She works at the Department of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Klaipėda University, at the Republican Klaipėda Hospital. In 2011 she defended her doctoral thesis in the field of education at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. Started writing at school, took part in literary competitions for schoolchildren. Her first publications appeared in the republican press in 1976. Her works have been included in the almanacs "Poezijos pavasaris", "Žiemos žodžiai" and others, in various collections of poems; translated into English and Croatian.