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About My Clients
I usually work with queer people to support with identity development by increasing agency and autonomy, as well as disabled people and people who experience chronic pain to process life changes. I also have considerable experience working with couples and polycules in mediation and values alignment. I have over 10 years experience in social service work, 5 years in suicide prevention and mental health crisis.
My Background and Approach
My graduate studies in Social Work and Women's and Gender studies bridged transformative justice with mindfulness, feminist relations of care and queer liberation with narrative therapy and trauma recovery, and decolonial anti-racist activism with strength-based, person-centered practices. As a psychiatric survivor myself -- and queer person -- I know how difficult finding and trusting a therapist can be. I bring compassion, gentleness, sensitivity, creativity, and authenticity to every therapeutic encounter I share. None are free till all are free -- therapy is one way to approach that freedom.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe our healing work is part of the larger social justice movements we participate in for our mutual liberations. With that in mind, therapists should be first and foremost accountable to the people they work with in therapy -- that is you! Practicing this can look differently for different people, but the core premise is to recognize the situated social positions we bring to shared spaces. Practicing radical accountability as a therapist and a person means seeking to undermine ways that white supremacy, cis heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, classism, and other forms of oppression impact our mental, emotional, behavioral, and social wellness. Processing relationships, trauma, and complex emotions in general, I believe, requires analyzing how these all intersect in the therapeutic relationship. It is such a privilege working with people in these vulnerable care workspaces, where we strive for healing and freedom.