Services
About My Clients
Is this you? LGBTQ+ adolescents & adults looking to seek support &explore their identity in a safe & affirming environment. Step-parents who want to nurture meaningful & healthy relationships within their blended family (all relationship configurations warmly welcomed). People coping with chronic illness & pain. Young adults seeking support working through major life transitions & career concerns. Clients looking for a therapist that works from a weight-neutral & fat liberation framework.
My Background and Approach
I believe that clients are the expert in their own experience and I respect and celebrate the knowledge and experiences that clients bring to therapy. Counseling can be an avenue to greater self-understanding, celebration, exploration, and growth. I embrace the counseling profession’s emphasis on growth, empowerment, social justice, and advocacy when working with clients to promote their mental health & wellness. I act as a compassionate co-facilitator in sessions where I walk alongside clients and support them through their process. My education is in clinical mental health and psychology. I utilize an eclectic and non-directive approach to therapy with a strong base in Humanistic approaches to therapy. The therapeutic modalities I use most often are person-centered therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and narrative therapy. I utilize self-compassion, values exploration, and strengths-based approaches to help clients build their resilience toolkit and reach their therapy goals.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I seek to work from a place of cultural humility and to work from an anti-oppression framework with my clients and colleagues. I strive in both my perspectives and practices, to work consciously and consistently to challenge historic patterns of marginalization and oppression including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, ableism, and discrimination in all its forms. I acknowledge that my experience and privilege can create obstacles to accurate compassion and anti-oppression work in therapy and I am committed to continual and ongoing growth. I take responsibility for making a safe space for your voice, listening deeply to your experiences, stories, and histories while being sensitive to each client's perspectives and identities.