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About My Clients
You are a queer or trans person who wants more than basic affirmation but someone who can engage competently with the complexities of your daily life. Your brain and/or body work in ways that make it hard to keep up with the pace of life and you are teetering on burnout. You’ve experienced periods of chronic overwhelm in your life. You feel dysregulated or disconnected. You have trouble with your relationship to yourself or others. And there isn’t one clear reason why.
My Background and Approach
I am a relational therapist, which means I am committed to getting to know you deeply. I offer a secure place for you to process the past, live in the present, and envision the future. I have a conversational style and also emphasize the mind/body connection, storytelling, humor and creative prompts in my sessions. I think we all have an impulse towards healing, growth and creativity but aren’t always sure how to access it. I am here to guide you through the healing process, which is often messy, confusing, hilarious, uncomfortable, and transformative. I will help you understand yourself better, learn to live alongside your wounds, cultivate a support network, and to have the courage to create a life you find meaningful.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I do not believe that therapy can or should be apolitical. Our vision of the world is shaped by our possession or dispossession of power and privilege and requires regular investigation and adjustment. A lot of my work as a person and as a therapist is to unlearn the underlying ideologies that we have all internalized as members of our society, such as, white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, christian supremacy, ableism, fatphobia, and carceral logics. I am also interested in the collective challenge we face. As we unlearn and attempt to refuse these oppressive ideologies, what do we replace them with? As we work to disentangle the ways these forces have impacted you, we can also start to imagine alternatives. I do not have the answers, and I will not tell you what to believe. But I will join you on the thorny path as you try to define and enact your own values.