What Working Together Looks Like

Therapy is a relationship. It is a relationship that centers you and the things you want to give time, space, attention, and effort to. I aim to co-create a therapy space that is non-judgmental, authentic, and collaborative.

My work is trauma-informed. This includes naming systems that cause(d) harm, centering consent, supporting your connection to choice and empowerment, and honoring your pace by following and trusting it. It also includes continuously learning and practicing decolonization in my professional and personal life. 

I am relational in my practice, knowing that we are relational beings who are shaped through our relationships (of all kinds) throughout our lives. In practice this includes depathologizing responses to violence and harm (systemic and otherwise). It means valuing lived experience and personal knowledge and understanding emotional expression, sensitivity, and relational needs as reflective of being connected to yourself - not of being “broken.”

My practice is rooted in creativity. Creativity invites you to be in process, to explore and experiment, to learn through doing, to practice and reflect. It supports expression, meaning making, imagining and creating what you want for yourself both in therapy and in your life outside therapy. Creative processes offer space to be an active and engaged part of yourself and your life. They are emergent, allowing you to be in the ongoing becoming of yourself.

I hope to build a therapeutic relationship that is affirming and validating of who you are and what you value. I am LGBTQIA2S+ affirming, sex positive, fat positive, and respect spiritual and cultural practices. I hope to support you in connecting to yourself, others, place, and sense of belonging and in building practices of care, play, and pleasure - integral pieces of personal repair and collective liberation.

It is truly an honor and a privilege to be in therapeutic relationships with those I work with. I hold this work dearly.