My Work
I am not the expert; you are. While I bring my lived experience and formal education into my work, I treat my clients as the authority on themselves. You are already on the path to where you want to be, my role is to support you in traveling that path with skill and friendship.
Collaborative connection heals. The belief that underpins my work is that we do some of our most profound healing in relationships where we feel safe enough to get curious and make mistakes. I strive to build this kind of relationship with my clients by bringing warmth, transparency, and integrity to every session.
Informed by anti-colonialist and abolitionist values. This means naming how oppressive systems show up in my clients' lives and encouraging them to live in opposition to these systems, when possible. When it seems appropriate, I also give clients opportunities to connect their experiences to the natural world.
Some frameworks, modalities, and theories I draw on are: attachment theory, somatics and ecosomatics, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, Betrayal Trauma Theory, Structural Dissociation of the Personality, anti-psychiatry and harm reduction.
Experiences I am particularly familiar with:
- Chronic illness, disability, covid-realism
- Gender identity and gender questioning
- Grief, loss, transitions, death of immediate family
- Substance use, self-medicating and recovery
- Housing instability, street-involvement
- Mixed race identity, racism, racial belonging
- Anxiety, obsessive thoughts, compulsive behavior
- Unresolved experiences, trauma, PTSD
- Suicidality, wanting to die
- Self-esteem, insecurity, self-worth
- Plurality, multiplicity, DID/OSDD
- Difficulty or instability in relationships
- Non-monogamy, non-traditional relationships
- Adoption, non-traditional families