Services
About My Clients
My clients find me after experiencing feelings of not being worthy of love, challenges in their identity, sexuality, gender expression, relationship formation, or childhood traumas. In relationship counseling clients find me because they are looking for somebody who understands their queer and polyamorous lives. I offer coaching, relationship skills, and Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples.
My Background and Approach
My style is relational, flexible, humorous, and grounded in the belief that we heal in relationship. I am a full person and reject the model of the “blank slate” therapist. In our work together I will meet you where you are and support you in reacquainting you to you, with all parts of yourself, including your inherent wisdom. I honor the knowledge that lives within your body, your spirit, and mind. My approaches aim to compassionately lead you to the root of your experiences and meaning-making. I strive to practice from a feminist and anti-oppressive lens and might invite you to use narrative, and body-based practices to help express, re-member, and integrate seemingly disparate parts of yourself. I am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy techniques and utilize practices that support my clients in speaking to each other vulnerably, shaping new experiences of intimacy and connection. This can be especially relieving after many failed attempts to communicate well with each other.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Some of the identities that shape my experiences: I am a cis-female, queer, white-bodied, German immigrant of working and middle-class backgrounds. I identify as non-monogamous and kink positive and traverse the world as an anti-racist activist, educator, food-lover and musician. I am (for the time being) able-bodied. I offer therapy services in English, German, and Spanish. I was brought up in organized Christian religious traditions, and I have found myself being attracted to and staying with pre-Christian Pagan and nature-bound spiritual practices over the years. These traditions root me and will likely support us in our work together.