Services
- Individual
- Family
- Adolescent/Teen
- Group
About My Clients
You’re not new to therapy-speak, and the harm that comes from diagnosing other people’s feelings without context. You’ve lived it - you’ve been called dramatic, sensitive, or needy. Really though, you needed support, comfort, or someone to see you. You’re here now because you’re feeling incredibly irritable and emotional, and this shit is getting in the way of the life you want to live. You feel panic, overwhelm, rage, or sometimes, nothing at all.
My Background and Approach
I’m a therapist, artist, caregiver, and person with lived experience of childhood trauma, death of a parent, disability, gender exploration, and late-diagnosed ADHD & OCD. I believe relational therapy is the key to change. I believe it because I have lived it. I have been in harmful and helpful therapeutic relationships in hospitals and treatment centers. My work is guided by my lived experience and the research of attachment and family systems theorists. Relational therapy means that no matter how much we know about what’s wrong or what happened, what is most important is how you feel about the connection between you and I. Change often happens when we can make sense of things together, through a supportive, understanding relationship. Together we can understand what led to panic and overwhelm and use therapeutic methods to work our way out of there.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
As a non-binary and queer person with lived experience in mental health treatment, I believe that your perspective shapes our therapeutic relationship. Your current living situation, your relationships with others, and your thoughts on life will all inform our work together in the life you find worth living. My clients have described me as down to earth, quick witted, and honest. I am guided by my values of congruence, joy, connection, safety, and comfort. I love to kayak in local rivers, cuddle with my four cats, play board games, listen to indie folk music, make collages, and attempt to quilt. I offer telehealth appointments throughout California. Please use the “Schedule Free Consultation” button to book a free 15 minute consultation with me. I look forward to meeting you!