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. I have training in and draw from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, Gottman Method, and Emotion Focused Therapy. 

Specialties:​

• Communication support for relationships, including high conflict couples

• LGBTQIA+ identity and family building (all stages)

• Parenting and conflict resolution for couples and families

• 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