Services
- Individual
About My Clients
You may look like you have it together while carrying trauma, shame, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or the pressure to be everything for everyone. Maybe you're questioning old roles, rebuilding your identity, navigating relationships, or tired of coping on autopilot. I work best with adults who want culturally responsive therapy, affirming, creative, and direct care. I work best with those who are ready to understand the patterns underneath the symptoms, not just manage them.
My Background and Approach
I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor and Approved Clinical Supervisor with a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a specialization in Drama Therapy. My work centers on adults navigating trauma, shame, identity, perfectionism, life transitions, and patterns that once helped them survive but now feel limiting. My approach is warm, collaborative, creative, and direct, no-BS therapy with compassion. Along with talk therapy, I integrate drama therapy, expressive and experiential techniques, somatic work, mindfulness, self-compassion, and values-based interventions. We might explore the story underneath a pattern, notice what your body is communicating, practice boundaries, challenge shame, or try something different when insight alone isn’t creating change. I tailor the work to you. The goal isn’t to perform “healing” correctly, it’s to build a life that feels more honest, grounded, and yours.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe good therapy makes room for the full person, not just a diagnosis or a list of symptoms. Culture, identity, relationships, sexuality, family, community, power, and lived experience all shape how we move through the world, so I don’t ask clients to leave those parts of themselves outside the therapy room. I value curiosity over judgment, consent over assumption, and collaboration over a therapist acting like the expert on your life. My practice is culturally responsive, LGBTQ+ affirming, sex-positive, kink-affirming, and welcoming of consensual non-monogamy and diverse relationship structures. As a therapist in therapy, I also believe therapy can be meaningful without being stiff. There is room for humor, creativity, honesty, and saying, “this isn’t working.” You don’t have to impress me, use therapy language, or show up perfectly. We can work with what is actually happening.