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About My Clients
I work with adult women, teens, and couples navigating childhood, relational, and attachment trauma. My work is depth-oriented and informed by parts work, somatic approaches, and Emotionally Focused Therapy. I work with people who learned early that the safest thing to be was easy, the one who did not need much, and who now, in their closest relationships, struggle to speak up, to take time for themselves, or to know what they truly want.
My Background and Approach
My work is informed by my own time on the other side of the couch, as a client. I believe that while we all have unique histories, there is a golden thread of experience that connects me to you, and you to me. Being let into someone's inner world is a privilege, and it takes time and trust to build. It cannot be rushed, the same way a plant cannot be hurried into putting down roots. I know something about holding more than one world at once. I grew up between cultures, the daughter of an immigrant father, in a lineage shaped by both trauma and the breaking of it. The gift of having a cycle broken for me also came with a kind of distance, from heritage, from belonging, from the easy sense of where you come from. Being biracial, being queer, being highly sensitive, taught me early how to hold contradictions that do not resolve. It is part of why I can sit with your complexities without needing to tidy them into something simpler than they are.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I have a naturally depth-oriented way of working. I believe your symptoms are not defects. They are the seeds of a self that adapted to survive, and they make sense once we understand what they were protecting. So much of what brings people to me is not one event. It is a pattern. Chronic self-doubt. The sense of having been silenced, by others or by yourself. The long habit of reading what everyone else needs before you know what you need. My work is informed by parts work, somatics, and EFT, which means we do not stay only in your thoughts and your story. We work with the places in the body where those stories live, and with the parts of you that took on their jobs long before you had a say. I am also trained in psychedelic integration, for clients making meaning of those experiences.