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About My Clients
I love working with over thinkers, with analytic types, with big feelers and questioners and doubters. Let's sit together with the curiosities, the anxieties, the pain, anger, and darkness, as well as the problems and triumphs. I am particularly interested in working with people on: • Career struggles • Masculinity and its challenges • Relationship difficulties • Anxiety and depression • Existential struggles • Gender identity and expectations
My Background and Approach
I bring an eclectic background to my therapeutic practice having worked in academia, hospitality, manual labor, and education. I bring to my therapy a graduate degree in philosophy, a trade apprenticeship, and years of experience the retail, food service, and more. I don't believe in narrowing the world to a single perspective and I want to understand you in the diversity of your lived life. As a therapist, my training and background is in Narrative Therapy. I am interested in more than just the problem. I want to understand the stories and systems which produce those problems, the changes you desire as well as the strengths and joys you may already have. I believe strongly that we do not exist in isolation and that understanding the broader context helps us confront even the most personal struggles. Whether it's trauma, relational, professional, or something deeper that defies easy categorization, there are questions to explore, reasons to understand, and stands to take.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Therapy is a special space for confronting life’s problems, where we can unburden ourselves from the social concerns and anxieties that keep us from being honest with ourselves and others. I strive to foster a feeling of safety to allow the expression of difficult emotions, challenging conversations, and the articulation of unspoken stories. I explicitly and proudly reject the priorities and influences of white supremacy, heteronormativity, transphobia, and fascism. I commit myself to the project of resisting power's attempts to reproduce itself in the therapy environment and I'm disinterested in going along with the way psychology as an institution frequently aligns itself with power's interests. What this means for my clients is that I aspire to a radical project of meeting them where they are at and approaching their therapy with a lens that is both centered on their lived experience and sharply aware of the broader context it exists in.