Services
- Individual
About My Clients
• You’re BIPOC & LGBTQIA, esp asexual/aromantic • You’re looking for a therapist who will help you work with your brain rather than trying to make your brain work neurotypical/ableist ways • You’re tired of the uncritical use of diagnoses • You’ve experienced personal or systemic traumas • You want to rant & despair without fear of judgement or carcerality • You want a balance of having goals for therapy but not being tied to them in every session • You want to co-create what therapy looks like
My Background and Approach
I believe that therapy needs to be a collaborative and co-created process, grounded in anti-racism, and trauma-informed approaches. Keeping that in the forefront, I work integratively, tailoring what sessions look like to what suits individual clients and their context best. Some of the foundations I draw from often include IFS, narrative, feminist, and relational perspective, which considers people in relation to their individual, cultural, political, and societal contexts. These approaches are especially helpful for QTBIPOC, neurodivergence, and folx with a history of trauma. I am also trained in Brainspotting, and integrate that into my practice where it fits, often for issues around trauma, or where clients are feeling stuck.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that therapy is a personal and political tool, which can be used in many different ways. It’s a space of personal growth and compassion, getting to know the self better, being more empowered, of release and catharsis. It is also a space to find ways to engage in changing or disengaging from the systems which cause constant harm and most mental health struggles/ “diagnoses” while also navigating them to reduce the harm caused. I try to help my clients find balance; between focusing on individual growth and goals, and contributing to community and societal support and change; between taking individual accountability and identifying systemic failures; between finding hope and meaning, and not trying to force the brain to find positivity in a world facing multiple ongoing existential crises and genocides.