Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
I work with adults, adolescents, couples, families (including blended or unconventional family/relationship structures) and groups. I am trained to treat a variety of acute conditions including PTSD, OCD, personality and mood disorders, and I have significant experience working with folks struggling with substance use/dual diagnosis, neurodivergent clients, transgender, nonbinary and queer clients, and chronic health concerns.
My Background and Approach
I have a BA in German Studies from Bard College, where I studied the history of medicine and philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, art history and music. After nearly a decade of service industry and nonprofit Harm Reduction work, touring with bands and reading Tarot professionally, I got my MSW at the University of Iowa. I approach each client with a attempt to understand the full picture of their life and what they are motivated to work on. I use a variety of techniques including EMDR, Prolonged Exposure therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and harm reduction psychotherapy. My goal is to help my clients integrate and adjust emotional responses, patterns of thought and behavior that stand in the way of their goals.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am strongly committed to gender equity, LGBTQIA+ equity and acceptance, the rights of people to manage their lives and health as they see fit, and to create relationships and families that make sense to them. I am passionate about alternative family structures, step and blended families, multiple relationship structures, and chosen families. I am an advocate of bodily autonomy, harm reduction, and HAES. I am kink/BDSM, poly and lifestyle informed and affirming, sex worker allied, and disability allied. I bring my identities into therapy when appropriate or helpful. I am a musician, stepmom, neurodivergent, spoonie, I come from a complex blended and multi-ethnic family, practice a mixture of spiritual an religious flavors, and have lived experience of recovery from C-PTSD, addiction, and eating disorder.