Services
- Individual
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
Teenagers, undergraduate & graduate students, therapists-in-training, PhD researchers & early career academics, young adults & adults going through life transitions. Questions you may be asking yourself: Why is my head not a nice place to live in? What do I do with my life when the world feels like it does? How do I stop spiraling? Am I bad? What if I don’t feel like I belong in my hometown? Why have I not felt the same to myself since the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns? What if I’m a fraud?
My Background and Approach
Collaborative, trauma-responsible, existential, adaptable, playful. I’m here to meet you where you’re at (which means you can absolutely show up with a PowerPoint, in your coziest clothes, already crying, having cursed my name in a TikTok video after last week’s session). I don’t expect a neurotypical presentation for connection or engagement nor do I discourage certain nervous system states (sometimes we need to make space together for messiness, loudness, or anything outside of calmness). While I do require you to be fully clothed for virtual sessions, I welcome eating and non-alcoholic drinking during our time together as well as sessions in cars, private community spaces like reserved library rooms, and outside at your home (if your wifi reaches). Trained in existential-phenomenological psychology (master’s training), collective trauma & social trauma models (PhD), and play therapy & sand tray therapy (certificate).
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe we are interconnected and interdependent with the world around us. I recognize the therapeutic space and the therapeutic relationship operates as a part of systems, cultural expectations, and historical lineages - there is room for curiosity and discernment in our time together. I believe in co-creation, gentleness, creativity, building trust & safety (I don’t believe my credentials earn me that automatically), consent, and intention in our sessions.