As a trauma-informed therapist, my approach to therapy honors your autonomy and safety. We’ll work together to establish a sense of security in the relationship and work collaboratively to determine the preferred ways to create change.

As a systemic therapist, I consider you among all of the systems you’re apart of and their influence/impact on your life, as well as your impact on these systems. My therapeutic beliefs are rooted in feminism, restorative and non-disposability practices, harm reduction, and anti-punitive/anti-oppressive approaches. I aim to be gentle and gingerly when it most matters, while also noticing the moments where directness and deliberate action is needed.

My clients are interested in exploring possibilities for change in their worlds. Whether it’s refining their communication skills, developing distress tolerance, or reshaping their narrative-of-self, they are here to expose truths and understandings both old and new. This can happen through supportive reflection, EMDR processing, narrative exploration, body attunement/grounding, relational reenactments, and more. While therapy cannot solve the external stressors that are ever present (e.g. political, racial, social, financial, environmental, and medical stress), it is my hope that our work helps us be better relational beings. 

I enjoy working with all backgrounds and identities. My work has primarily focused on supporting those who identify as LGBTQIA2S+, multiracial, multicultural, neurodivergent, and/or holding multiple oppressed identities. 

Our main focuses in sessions are often:

• Identity exploration and integration.

• Stress management, somatic awareness, and nervous system regulation.

• Anxiety and/or depression related to social, political, racial, cultural, environmental, economic, academic, career, and/or spiritual stress (chronic or acute).

• Gender and/or sexuality exploration, wellness, and empowerment (ACE/ARO and kink affirming).

• Polyamory & consensual non-monogamy.

• Grief, loss, and bereavement (both socially accepted and ambiguous forms of grief).

• Neurodivergence, ADHD, and autism.

• PTSD and/or CPTSD; Relational trauma, e.g. interpersonal harm, family of origin, estrangement.

• Sexual abuse and assault survivors.