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About My Clients
I work with individuals and couples to address relationship challenges, trauma (including relational trauma from childhood), and grief. I welcome clients of any background. I specialize in working with queer people (including those who've faced religious trauma or familial rejection), neurodivergent and disabled people (including people with chronic pain/illness, sensory or mobility issues, autoimmune disease, cancer, TBI), and other oppressed groups.
My Background and Approach
In individual therapy, I would encourage you to gradually travel to places within yourself where you might be afraid to go. I hope that my accompaniment makes this task feel possible and that the rewards will be rich. In the process, you might discover parts of yourself—for instance, the capacity to play, rest, grieve, be intimate, or receive care—that you buried long ago to survive. My hope is that reclaiming those parts allows you to feel more fully and vibrantly alive. We'll also explore the wishes, fears, and defenses you bring to close relationships, building insight you can use to strengthen connection. In couples therapy, we would examine how each partner's history (including in childhood) contributes to your relationship’s challenges and strengths. I aim to lower defensiveness, deepen vulnerable honesty, and help you respond compassionately to your partner's + your own attachment needs and wounds. By altering old cycles, you may discover new ways forward.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I’m a queer, disabled white woman with a lifelong visual processing disorder. I view mental health in social context, recognizing that social structures and the culture(s) we live in shape us and shape what we grapple with. My work with disabled clients is influenced by disability justice: a framework of values developed by BIPOC, queer, disabled activists in the Bay Area which promotes the collective liberation of disabled people. Before becoming a therapist, I spent four years in rehabilitative healthcare working with survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and eight years doing non-profit work including union and community organizing.