About me
My Approach
I work with individual adults and teens dealing with issues related to trauma, self-esteem, neurodivergence/giftedness, relationship challenges, complex or difficult family relationships, and just general weltschmerz about the state of things. I am poly, kink, and LGBTQIA+ affirming and celebrating, and I strive toward the realization of collective liberation and anti-oppression work in my practice. I am informed by Internal Family Systerms, somatic/mindfulness-based and psychoanalytic approaches, and I am EMDR trained. I enjoy making space for accessing your spirituality as a resource in sessions if that interests you.
I embody humor and silliness, patience, warmth, sometimes gentle feistiness if warranted, and deep care and respect in my work with clients. We will always go at your pace because you are the expert on what you are ready for, and I defer to you.
I would be honored to work with you to learn how to listen for the quiet voice of what’s unmistakably true within you. I think that voice is so very worth everything it takes to find and welcome it.
Values
I value standing up for what is right, what you need, what we all deserve and need as human and more than human alike: the opportunity to move toward balance, to experience wellbeing, connection, safety and protection from harm, to be free of oppression and exploitation, and to be able to freely experience inalienable, indomitable, vibrant joy. I am loud and obnoxious in my opposition to injustice and my pursuit of collective wellbeing. I am a firmly anticapitalist therapist and part of my work is resisting in any way I can the larger forces at play which cause us all in to act against our own wellbeing and that of others. Everyone deserves an opportunity to thrive, damnit.
Lived Experience
I have past and present lived experiences with C-PTSD and abusive relationships, neurodivergence (I am diagnosed with ADHD), suicidal ideation, the particular widely shared mental health hell that is working unfulfilling minimum wage jobs as an adult with hopes and dreams, and persistent depression. I have been in therapy on and off for over a decade, and have received EMDR in the past (and found it extremely transformative!). My story is not like yours, we are all on our own path, but in some cases it can feel like just a little less explaining, and a little less pathologizing to work with someone who’s lived through some of those scary corners of life and come out the other side.
I also am nonbinary/genderfluid, bisexual, and polyamorous!
Outside of Work
When I’m not working, I am zooming back and forth between many beloved hobbies (foraging, gardening, playing music, making art, going squirrel mode and preserving food/canning, and learning how to make things that I couldn’t before) and trying to spend as much time as I can deepening my relationship with the land I live on.
I meditate daily, and spirituality is really important to me, though my personal spirituality is quite eclectic and fits poorly into any brief description. Without getting too mystical, I feel like we’re all just here to do our best at raising the giant cosmic baby of the universe, and so it’s important to treat every moment like it’s part of an act of great love and care. When you can, yknow. I think often it’s more possible than it seems and I try to have faith in that, and part of the struggle is figuring that out. I definitely see my work as a site of this love and care.
I feel lucky to exist now, with you, despite all the chaos we are living through, and I’m really excited to connect.