Services
- Individual
About My Clients
You may have spent years becoming who others needed you to be, leaving less room for the full truth of you. I work with LGBTQIA+ adults, veterans, and others navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, identity, relationships, burnout, and life transitions. My practice affirms kink, polyamory, and consensual nonmonogamy. Together, we can slow down, understand what shaped you, and build a life that feels more honest and connected. You do not have to make your story smaller here.
My Background and Approach
I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker providing affirming teletherapy to adults located in Massachusetts, Maine, or Washington at the time of their session. My approach is warm, collaborative, trauma-responsive, and grounded in the whole person. Together, we look beyond symptoms to understand the relationships, identities, values, cultural experiences, and survival strategies that have shaped your life. My work draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, DBT-informed skills, mindfulness, self-compassion, and polyvagal-informed principles. These approaches offer useful tools, but I will not force your experience into a particular model. We may explore inherited roles, the stories you learned about yourself, and strategies that once helped you survive but no longer fit the life you want. Therapy can help you understand these patterns, practice new ways of responding, and create more room for authenticity, connection, and choice.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe people heal in relationships where they feel genuinely seen, respected, and accompanied. Therapy is not about repairing a defective person or turning you into someone more acceptable. It is about creating enough safety and curiosity to reconnect with the parts of yourself that may have been hidden, silenced, or shaped by survival. I value curiosity over judgment, authenticity over perfection, and collaboration over hierarchy. I will bring clinical knowledge into our work, but you remain the expert on your life. We will build an understanding of your experiences together rather than assuming that one explanation, identity, or treatment model tells your entire story. Outside the therapy room, I enjoy architecture, history, reading, tabletop role-playing games, and life with my pets. I am drawn to the stories people tell, the communities we create, and the spaces that help us feel that we genuinely belong.