​​Who I Help

 

​Providing mental healthcare to the LGBTQIA2S community is incredibly important to me as a clinician. I work with queer, trans, and gender expansive adolescents, adults, and/or couples on identity exploration and transition, neurodiversity exploration, grief processing, and trauma/PTSD. I am relationship-affirming of all styles of relationships (non-monogamy, polyamory, queer platonic, etc.), and specialize in intimate partner violence (IPV) within the LGBTQIA2S community. My IPV background also lends itself to exploring relationship identities, attachment styles, and building healthy relationships (with yourself and/or others). 

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What Can you Expect?

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I’m a non-binary, neurodivergent, nerdy, witchy, queerdo. I laugh a lot, I unmask as much as I can (and offer you the space to do the same), and yes, I do want to see pictures of your pets.

 

My therapy practice has been built upon years of community mental health work, social justice advocacy, and personal adversity that has created a collaborative, trauma-informed perspective to this work. This means that I like to learn from my clients as much as they come to learn from me; “therapist” is not a position of power. You know your brain better than I ever could, and I am delighted to bring my tools and knowledge to the therapeutic relationship to help you know you better.

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I don’t use one specific therapy modality but am fond of pulling from Internal Family Systems (IFS)/Parts Work, EMDR Resourcing (I am not certified in actual EMDR), and bringing in elements of creativity when applicable. Because I work with many neurodivergent folks, I don’t use CBT and am not comfortable using modalities that focus on specifically changing behaviors. I am not here to change you or who you are. We are here to heal, to explore, to understand, to figure out what it means to be authentic to you.

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I love watching people grow and celebrating that growth. I will tell you that I am proud of you and I will mean it. (Hey? If you’re reading this right now, I’m already proud of you. This is hard, hard work; how cool is it that you’re already taking that first step?)

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“A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”

- Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

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 When I'm not at Open Space CCW, you may also find me...

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Fantasizing about my next D&D character (or, perhaps, yet another character that I will never actually play), watching Dimension 20, listening to Not Another D&D Podcast, swooning over Emily Axford, rewatching the LOTR, drinking tea, drawing or writing, or hanging out with one of my many cats.

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