My approach to therapy begins with meeting you where you are. My intention is to help you expand your own felt-sense of well-being, safety and personal agency through welcoming, working with, and integrating all of the different aspects of who you are. The core of my professional work and counselor identity comes from my personal history of unlearning patterns of systemic oppression. My approach to counseling has been shaped by a social justice worldview that acknowledges how power, privilege and systemic oppression influence and shape people and the world we live in. All are welcome here. I approach therapy through a trauma-informed, anti-racism, anti-oppression, culturally competent lens. I am Queer and Trans affirming, sex positive, and kink friendly.

I work primarily with 3 therapy models that I use interchangeably based on what you need.

(IFS): I use Internal Family Systems (IFS), a therapy model that is based on the idea that we all have parts and an organic self — these parts and self relate to each other like a family system inside of us. In IFS, we welcome all parts, attempt to learn how these parts have helped us adapt to the events in our lives, and work towards cultivating a relationship between our parts and our Selves. Using IFS in therapy means helping you become aware of your parts and how they shape your relationships both with yourself and others. I am level 1 IFS trained and am a 2022-2023 IFS Leadership Fellow.

(Somatic Experiencing): In Somatic Experiencing, the word “soma” means body, it is a model that helps us develop the experience of being in our bodies — embodied. Our bodies are the instruments through which we experience the world, living tools that carry and respond to memories, experiences, senses. Somatic Experiencing helps you fine-tune your own awareness of your body, and eventually expand your capacity for being with all of the feelings, sensations, parts of your body — getting in touch with the stories those parts carry. I draw from mindfulness and breath work practices to help you cultivate your own felt-sense of integration, safety and belonging.

(Process Work): Using Gestalt and Process work, we focus on your relationship with the present moment, moving towards acceptance of what is here, now. The act of accepting ourselves as we are creates the necessary environment for change, providing a deeper understanding for who we want to be. Any barriers to what is here, now, become grist for the mill — in this way, the focus is on the process versus the content of our experience. Using Process work in therapy shifts us away from traditional talk therapy in that the focus becomes less on what the story is, and more on the experience of how you tell it.