Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Group
About My Clients
The people I work with have survived a lot, but don't necessarily feel like survivors. I work with people of all identities and backgrounds, but specialize in working with survivors of complex childhood trauma, particularly those who are also members of the disability community. I help people who feel like they've been struggling forever to reach their goals for healing, self-acceptance, and growth.
My Background and Approach
I identify as a primarily Gestalt therapist, which means I focus on not just who you are and what you do, but how your emotions and thoughts interact with your decisions, actions, and behaviors. This information helps you develop much stronger feelings of control, competence, and calm. My experiences as a counselor have been broad. I have worked in counseling agencies, crisis centers, hospitals, universities, and schools. I have provided counseling to clients from many backgrounds, of many ethnicities, and across the gender, orientation, neurodiversity, and disability spectrum. I have taught parenting classes, led support groups, and created boundary and social skills classes. I exclusively offer telehealth while I am pursuing a PhD in Counseling Education. I have provided teletherapy since 2019, and consider teletherapy to be a specialty area of mine.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I own the privilege I have as a white, cisgendered person. I also embrace my identity as a queer, neurodiverse woman with a chronic disability. I strongly uphold the values of social justice. I work to cultivate a practice that is open, welcoming, accepting, and nonjudgemental. I have extensive experience working with people experiencing disability, with the LGBTQIQA community, and with members of the Latinx/Latin@ community. Human rights, social justice and mental health are intimately connected. In my research, I focus on disability rights, intergenerational trauma, and social justice. Movements to which I donate time and/or resources include: Black Lives Matter, disability rights, LGBTQIQA rights, reproductive rights, women's rights, justice system reform, and universal healthcare, among others.