Services
About My Clients
I specialize in working with couples and 2+ partnerships, in which one or more of the partners identifies as queer, trans, bi, and/or pansexual. I also work with individual adults and teenagers, and with families. My practice centers people who navigate alternative approaches to gender, sexuality and relationships. I am excited about supporting clients who have been excluded by mainstream society in some way, and/or asked to draw on their deepest reserves in order to survive.
My Background and Approach
I support my clients in building fulfillment and security in their relationships and within themselves, while also enjoying full expression of their identities. I work relationally, creatively and somatically, using tools from Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems Therapy, and am 2yrs into the 3yr training to become an SEP. Our work together will offer tools to help you regulate your nervous system by tuning into your sensations. You will learn ways to support conflicting parts of yourself from a grounded place, so they can work together fluidly. Gently, we will collaborate to create opportunities for you to resolve trauma by speaking directly to your body, allowing completion of fight/flight and protective responses left over from traumatic events, and restoring you nervous system's equilibrium. We will spend considerable time and attention building a trusting relationship with each other, and generally follow your lead in terms of what we focus on in any session.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am very interested in the question of what the future might look like, and who we might become, if systems of oppression did not so drastically impact our bodies, psyches and relationships. I believe therapy can be an invitation to uncover unexpressed sides of ourselves, to find more agency and empowerment, and to remove barriers to connection. Participation in grassroots organizing is an important part of my life, and I think of my work in social justice movement spaces as an extension of what I do in the therapy room. So much of the trauma faced by individuals is a product of unjust systems. I see participating in social justice movement spaces as an essential element of working to address trauma on a societal and interpersonal level.