Therapy comes in lots of different flavors.  My approach is rooted in my core values and seeks to integrate various methods that taste good to me and I have found helpful with clients.  I am always working to develop and strengthen my skills and I don’t believe any one approach will work for everyone (or anyone all the time).  That means that I try to be responsive to whomever is sitting across from me and think creatively about how I can most effectively move towards our treatment goals.

I am very relational and strength-based.  That means I want to collaborate with you because we both have important information and skills that will move you towards your treatment goals.  We are in this together.

All of my work is trauma-informed.  I have experience working with survivors of abuse, neglect, assault, community violence, loss, and vicarious trauma.  I regularly utilize mindfulness practices, attachment theory, parts work, and narrative practices.

I am nonjudgmental, sex-positive, and open-minded.  I’m comfortable talking about race, privilege, shame, sexuality, and reproductive issues.  I don’t pretend to know everything, and I am open to learning. I am aware of my own intersectionality: I am a queer, white, currently-able-bodied, neurotypical, atheistic, cisgendered mother of three young kids and while my identity informs my relationships I engage in on-going work to unsure that it does not limit my empathy.

My style is easy-going, relaxed, and dare I say a little fun? Clients have described me as “the Ms. Frizzle of therapists” and as “a fucking dahlia”. I want you to read the text from the difficult person in your life aloud in session, I want to see pictures of your partner(s) and pets, I want your music recommendations and hot takes. Most of all, I want you to feel seen and safe in the space we create together.

I work with English-speaking adolescents and adults.

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