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About My Clients
I work best with thoughtful adults and teens who feel inwardly stuck, overstimulated, or disconnected despite appearing capable on the outside. Many of my clients are navigating anxiety, relationship patterns, identity questions, sexuality, substance use, or burnout. I often work with neurodivergent clients, queer and bisexual folks, people exploring non-normative relationships, and those unpacking how past experiences shape current emotional and relational patterns.
My Background and Approach
I hold an MA in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, with training grounded in psychodynamic, relational, attachment-based, and somatic approaches. My background also includes research and education in family and sexuality, reproductive justice, and non-normative identity and relationship structures. In therapy, I focus on understanding the whole person rather than reducing experience to symptoms or labels. Together, we explore both present challenges and deeper patterns shaped by early relationships, cultural context, and nervous system responses. My approach is collaborative, curious, and honest, supporting clients in developing greater emotional freedom, self-trust, and more satisfying ways of relating - to themselves and others.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe therapy should be a space where complexity is welcomed rather than managed away. My work is informed by values of bodily autonomy, self-determination, and care that resists shame, surveillance, and pathologizing difference. I am neurodivergent (ADHD) and affirm neurodiversity as a meaningful framework for understanding attention, emotion, and regulation across the lifespan. I am committed to anti-diet, body-affirming care; gender-affirming and sex-positive therapy; and relational approaches that honor consent, power, and context. I support reproductive justice, disability justice, and queer and trans liberation, and I strive to remain accountable to ongoing learning and reflection in my personal and professional life. I see therapy as a relational practice rooted in dignity, curiosity, and respect.