Services
- Individual
About My Clients
Do you feel overwhelmed by anxiety? Do you find yourself avoiding your emotions, treating yourself harshly or struggling to offer yourself compassion? I specialize in collaborating with young adult women (trans and non-binary inclusive) to help them grow in self-compassion and gain freedom from anxiety and trauma. I particularly enjoy supporting grad students, young professionals and queer and questioning women, as well as helping people of faith process religious trauma.
My Background and Approach
My approach is collaborative, trauma-informed and centered on you and your lived experience. I offer support in considering your experiences and what messages you may have internalized from your past, family, culture and the larger systems around us. I can help you make sense of your anxiety and trauma responses in light of how the brain and body react to stress and coach you on ways to gently improve your own self-talk and build your "toolbox" of strategies to help you care for yourself.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I practice from a liberation health, anti-oppression and anti-racist perspective. I am intentional about being in community with others who can hold me accountable and help me reflect on myself and my work. While I think that labelling our experiences can be useful for some, I mostly see diagnosis as a necessary evil due to insurance requirements. I believe the concept of "evidence-based practice" is based in white supremacy and that we make a mistake when we elevate it over other forms of wisdom as somehow more objective or valid. I'm a progressive Christian and have my own experiences of high-control religious environments/religious trauma and of struggling with mental health. Outside of offering therapeutic support, I love to read, visit local coffee shops and libraries, pet cats, wear flannel, spend time outside, cook new recipes for people I love and play video games! Others describe me as a caring, playful, detail-oriented person with a good sense of humor. :)