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About My Clients
I welcome anyone seeking affirming, trauma-informed therapy rooted in compassion, honesty, and real life. I bring expertise in LGBTQIA+ care, HIV, disability, and chronic illness.
My Background and Approach
I earned my MSW from Kutztown University in 2008, as an adult learner, and bring experience in wraparound services with children on the autism spectrum, hospice care, HIV prevention, Ryan White medical case management, behavioral health, and years of LGBTQIA+, HIV, disability, and public health advocacy. My work is grounded in the belief that mental health is never separate from grief, identity, stigma, health, trauma, family, systems, or survival. I work primarily with LGBTQIA+ people, people living with HIV, people with disabilities, and people navigating chronic illness, while welcoming anyone seeking affirming, trauma-informed care. My approach is warm, direct, practical, and honest. I use CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, EMDR-informed work, mindfulness, strengths-based care, and plain human conversation. I am not a blank-wall therapist. I listen deeply, speak plainly, use humor when it helps, and tell the truth with compassion.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe people are deeply shaped by their environments, relationships, culture, communities, losses, survival strategies, and what they have had to overcome. Trauma is not just personal. It can also come from stigma, poverty, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, illness, family rejection, and systems that were never built with everyone’s dignity in mind. I believe marginalized people, including LGBTQIA+ people, people of color, people living with HIV, people with disabilities, and people with chronic illness, often carry strength that was built under pressure. Therapy should honor that strength while also making space for pain, anger, grief, humor, healing, accountability, and self-compassion.