Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
I am trained to work with everyone and I love working with everyone. However, I have lived experience and specific expertise working with the LGBTQIA+ community, transgender and gender expansive folks, including transgender adolescents/emerging adults and their families. I love working with relationships, including couples, polycules, sibling groups and family systems. If you want affirmative, insight oriented, developmental, and relational work, you will be able to do that work with me
My Background and Approach
My work is based in the understanding that body, psyche and spirit are unitary and that our suffering and joy in any of these areas leads to suffering and joy in the others. My work is trauma-informed and attachment-based. I regularly use mindfulness skills and techniques from Internal Family Systems to assist my clients in developing their ability to expand their awareness, self witness, and integrate parts that have been dissociated. If you work with me, you will find a warm and collaborative relational container. I strike a balance between encouraging my clients to challenge themselves to grow into areas that are uncomfortable and creating a space in which they can settle into self-acceptance and compassion. When this growth takes place, an individual's capacity for discernment around vocation, relationships, lifestyle, and purpose becomes robust and stable, and it starts to feel natural to take constructive and effective actions to make positive changes.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Psychological suffering exists on different levels and manifests in different ways, in psyche, body, spirit, interpersonally, socially, both consciously and unconsciously. We can sink into it, often only with the question of "why?" or "why me?" It is more important to ask what it is that is happening. What are the conditions that have led, in this place and in this time, to this uniquely "me" dilemma?" When we can be curious in this way, we see that our grappling is set within a vast familial, social, historical, ecological, and energetic landscape; nested and overlapping systems much larger and more complex than our conscious psyches can comprehend. My work is also informed by an understanding of how systems work, how our embeddedness in systems can lead many of us, particularly those who are members of historically marginalized communities, to hold burdens of suffering that are not of our own making but are rather the collective holding of systemic oppressions.