Services
- Individual
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
You may be carrying more than people realize, performing strength while quietly struggling, or feeling lost in the gap between who you are and who you're expected to be. Many of my clients are navigating anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, or questions of belonging and identity: cultural, racial, gender, or spiritual. Some are healing from relational harm. Others are standing at the edge of a significant change. Whatever brings you here, I'm glad you found your way.
My Background and Approach
My approach is trauma-informed, person-centered, and rooted in deep respect for your whole story. With a background in Cultural Anthropology, I bring an understanding of how identity, belonging, culture, race, and systemic forces shape a person's inner life and why they belong in the room. I'm an LMHCA and Nationally Certified Counselor with a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Seattle University and clinical experience in community mental health and public schools throughout the South Puget Sound. I integrate Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems, existential therapy, Liberation Psychology, somatic and mindfulness-based approaches, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. We move at a pace your nervous system can hold, making space for what stirs beneath the surface. My clients often describe our work as a place where they feel fully seen, without having to translate themselves or leave parts of their story at the door.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Western mental health has a fraught history with communities it has pathologized rather than understood. I hold that history with honesty and strive to practice differently, centering relationship, community, and traditional ways of knowing alongside clinical training. You arrive with more wisdom than you may realize: your experience, your lineage, the ways of knowing that have been passed down to you. Therapy isn't about replacing that. It's about finding your way back to what's true, and setting down what never was. As a woman of color who has done my own work of finding my voice and claiming the right to use it, I know something about what it means to move through the world on the margins. That experience informs the particular passion I bring to working with people from marginalized communities, including people of color, women, and the LGBTQ community. I believe this work, done well, is a form of liberation, and I care deeply about what becomes possible when we're in it together.