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About My Clients
Many of the people I work with are creative, relationally perceptive, and highly adaptive. They are artists, caregivers, and teens navigating complex systems, or therapists themselves who understand their histories and patterns intellectually yet still find them activated in their bodies and relationships. I understand the therapeutic relationship itself as the primary agent of change. Within that relational frame, I integrate Brainspotting and Art Therapy.
My Background and Approach
I offer therapy to youth, adults, families, artists, and fellow therapists using Brainspotting, Art Therapy, and relational approaches. My practice is creative and dynamic, grounded in my formal education but also my senses, experiences, and relationships with teachers and mentors well versed in the healing arts and sciences. I believe therapy functions as one tool to bring us each closer to our shared humanity and therefore the collective good. I am a Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) and licensed in Oregon (LPC) and Washington (LMHC). I have completed Levels I and II of Brainspotting and am currently pursuing certification.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Mental illness is inextricable from the social and political landscape. I frame interpersonal truths within the context of white supremacy, racism, classism, fatphobia, ableism and systemic harm toward gender diverse and queer people. Disrupting these systems personally and professionally is my imperfect practice. Alongside practicing therapy, I am an artist, a parent and a lover of my friends and partner. My work as a therapist is fueled by my perpetual curiosity about the human condition and ever shaped by my lived experiences. I am sustained by reading, singing, laughing and of course, gummy candies.