Individual Psychotherapy

At a minimum, therapy needs to be a place where you feel supported to express an honest range of emotions and feelings. Therapy is an experience with the potential to also encourage dialogue of and exploration around thoughts and beliefs that are limiting for our lives, whether that be preventing us from making a decision and taking action we want, or changing a behavioral pattern or relationship dynamic that is no longer working or at a breaking point.

During our time together, I will listen with empathy and compassion and provide feedback and suggestions. If you are seeking specific tools and strategies, we can problem-solve together what might benefit you. If you aren’t sure what to talk about or where to start, I can help us get started with topics and questions for you to reflect on. Therapy may or may not feel straightforward, and part of my role is to help you navigate the process as it unfolds. I will make recommendations for treatment and next steps toward the resolution of your challenges.

I frame all of psychotherapy within a broader sociopolitical context; systemic oppression means some people and identities are left with less opportunity and agency due to how resources in society are structured, which undoubtedly has significant impact on mental and physical health. People with intersecting oppressed identities are the most impacted by systemic oppression. Psychotherapy has roots in white supremacy and patriarchical values; the frame within which I view the work I do is an updated feminist, experiential and psychodynamic lens that takes history and attachment neuroscience into account.

Specialties:

LGBTQIA+ identity and family building (all stages)
Sexuality, including sexual health, pleasure and satisfaction in sexual relationships, pelvic floor health; kink and BSDM affirming, consensual non-monogamy affirming
Perinatal mental health for all genders
Pregnancy loss and parental grief for individuals and couples, including childlessness
Eating disorders and disordered eating (binge-eating, restriction, binge / purge cycles)
Trauma re-processing; PTSD, Complex PTSD, developmental trauma including being the child of mentally ill and / or personality disordered parent(s)
Fat Positivity (from an allied lens)
Anti-diet culture and nutrition

Body Trust®

At the heart of Body Trust® is the belief that we all deserve to live in our bodies exactly as they are, without needing to change, fix, critique, explain, justify, or compensate for the size or shape of our bodies. And that those living in larger bodies are the most impacted by weight bias and stigma.

Body Trust® is a paradigm shift away from diet culture that is so prevalent in the mainstream “health and wellness” and weight loss industries – those industries will have us believe, with no scientific evidence, that fat bodies are “unhealthy” and need to be made smaller. The weight loss industry is part of a broader misogynistic cultural message designed to perpetuate self-hatred and boost sales of products and services in the name of “self-improvement.” The wisdom of Body Trust® guides us to learn to listen to and honor what our bodies are telling us about our needs and desires, rather than looking for those answers outside of ourselves.

It is my great honor and privilege to be part of the Body Trust Provider® community and share my knowledge and experience with those interested in learning a new way to inhabit their bodies and walk aware in this culture that is rife with weight bias and stigma. As a thin-bodied person, I don’t presume to understand the lived experience of being in a larger body, and I bring with me to the conversation my own body privilege and internalized sizeism that I work daily to dismantle.

Key topics addressed with Body Trust®:

Self-compassion

Body Image

Weight bias

Fat phobia and Internalized fat phobia

Health at Every Size

Intuitive Eating

Decolonized nutrition and wellness

Weight cycling

Anti-diet culture

Binge and restrict cycle of eating

Grief

Body Stories

Trauma and PTSD

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