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About My Clients
I work with adults navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, relationships, LGBTQ+ identity, and life transitions. I’m especially drawn to clients curious about the stories they carry, the patterns they’ve inherited or created to survive, and how they might relate to themselves with more compassion, honesty, and freedom. Therapy may include image, metaphor, dreamwork, expressive writing, and the therapeutic relationship itself as pathways to healing and self-discovery.
My Background and Approach
I have a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and have worked in community-based clinics, college counseling centers, and private practice. My experience has ranged from practical, short-term therapy to longer-term depth work, teaching me that the everyday practices of change can be just as important as the hard-won insights that emerge through deeper emotional work. My style is warm, collaborative, strengths-based, and trauma-informed. I draw from relational, psychodynamic, attachment-based, mindfulness, and mind-body approaches, adapting our work to the person rather than a particular model. I believe curiosity, reflection, and genuine human connection can create room for meaningful change. I offer queer- and gender-affirming care and bring a social justice lens to my work, with attention to the cultural, relational, and social contexts that shape our lives.
My Values as a Therapist
Social justice is deeply woven into how I understand therapy and the world. I care deeply about the ways power, privilege, identity, culture, and systems shape our lives and our sense of self. I am especially committed to affirming and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and others whose identities, voices, and experiences have been marginalized. I believe therapy should be a place where you do not have to minimize, explain away, or separate parts of who you are in order to belong. I strive to create a space where all of who you are is welcomed—with curiosity, respect, and genuine care. For me, this work is not simply about helping people adapt to the world as it is. It can also be about questioning the expectations and systems that have shaped us, reclaiming what feels authentically our own, and imagining ways of living with greater freedom, meaning, and connection.