Love Dialogos LMFT

AEDP is a core part of my clinical approach. Skills alone are not enough; you need new experiences alongside new concepts. AEDP lets us work with what you feel in your situation as well as what you think about it, starting bottom-up with sensation and felt experience and then moving toward meaning.

My work is grounded in Buddhist psychology. I am a Buddhist Chaplain in the Plum Village tradition with a 24-year practice, and I bring that training into sessions through attention to the body, the nervous system, and what is happening in the room between us, adapted for neurodivergent nervous systems rather than imposed as one-size-fits-all mindfulness.

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and AAMFT-Approved Supervisor, I think in systems. I apply family systems theory and the double empathy problem to romantic and family relationships, including estrangement, so that what looks like an individual problem can be seen in the context of the relationships around it.

Much of my practice is adults who were misdiagnosed for years before ADHD or AuDHD was identified. ADHD is a different way of processing a world built for someone else, not a disorder to be corrected. We work with your actual nervous system, bottom-up, rather than asking you to try harder at systems designed for other brains. I hold the ADHD-CCSP certification.

I specialize in late-identified autistic adults, many of whom spent years misread by the people and systems around them. Autism is a difference, not a deficit. I work with sensory needs, burnout, unmasking, and the double empathy problem in relationships and families. I am a Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Specialist and a neurodivergent clinician myself.

Queerness, gender expansiveness, non-monogamy, and kink are not clinical problems. Therapy should affirm who you are, not explain it away. Love Psychotherapy is queer-owned, and I bring lived experience as well as clinical training, including WPATH membership and listing in the NCSF Kink Aware Professionals directory.