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  • California No: 9557, Oregon No: C8899, Wisconsin No: 11352-125

    About Me

    I’m a queer, nonbinary, white, neurodivergent therapist who is passionate about helping people recover from painful experiences, navigate life stress, and reconnect with their sense of self. I specialize in trauma healing—including EMDR Therapy—and work with all forms of trauma, including religious trauma and trauma rooted in identity, relationships, and lived experience. I also support clients exploring gender dysphoria, identity development, neurodivergent experiences, and major life transitions.

    I proudly provide gender-affirming letters for trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse clients, and I’m committed to offering a space where you are affirmed, respected, and understood.

    I am an EMDRIA-Certified EMDR therapist and am licensed in California, Oregon, and Wisconsin. I am in-network with several insurance plans and also provide superbills for out-of-network clients.

    My Values

    My work is grounded in creating a therapeutic space that supports your autonomy, validates your identity, and honors the cultural, social, and systemic contexts you move through.

    My core values reflect an anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-ableist, feminist framework that guides both my work and my personal life. I approach therapy through a pro-liberation, anti-oppressive, and human-centered lens, meeting you exactly where you are and supporting you with compassion, empowerment, and clarity.

    Therapeutic Approach

    My therapeutic style is grounded in authenticity, empathy, safety, and growth. Therapy can be deeply personal and beautifully challenging, and my goal is to create a space where you can explore without judgment. I am a relational therapist and share parts of myself when it helps clients feel more comfortable, connected, or grounded.

    I use a holistic, person-centered framework that honors your humanity, dignity, and lived experience. I integrate multiple evidence-based and trauma-informed modalities depending on your needs:

    Modalities I Use

    • EMDR Therapy, including Attachment-Focused EMDR, to reprocess upsetting or traumatic experiences

    • Parts Work / Ego State Therapy to explore and support the different parts of yourself

    • Collaborative goal-setting and optional between-session practices (journaling, worksheets, reflection prompts)

    • Guided meditations, grounding techniques, and resource-building for emotional regulation

    • Self-compassion and shame-reduction practices

    • DBT-informed skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and mindful coping

    • ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) to help you live more aligned with your values and create meaningful behavioral change

    • CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) to explore unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and patterns and move toward nonjudgmental change

    Together, we tailor therapy to fit you—your identity, your needs, and your goals.

    Outside of Therapy

    Outside of work, I’m a self-described theater nerd who loves watching musicals and singing along to my favorites. I enjoy audiobooks—usually thrillers or nonfiction—keeping up with my favorite TV shows, and exploring my city or traveling to new places. I love being near water and spending time by lakes or the ocean. You can often find me meeting friends for coffee, wandering through art museums, or working on the occasional craft project.

Our Team

  • I am a pansexual cis gender woman. I enjoy working with individuals who are experiencing different symptoms and areas they want to work on. I am a Registered Art Therapist and I enjoy utilizing this along with a combination of other modalities with my clients. I do not believe in a one size fits all model and work with each individual client to achieve their unique goals. Often I will work from a Solution Focused or Recovery Model standpoint, however I will utilize other modalities based on the individuals needs. Over the last 10 years I have worked extensively with individuals experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns as well as those experiencing a mental health crisis.

    I like being a therapist because I enjoy helping others. I believe we all come to this field for a reason and I feel that my lived experiences have aided me in better understanding the experiences of my clients. I believe that everyone has the ability to grow and make changes and I enjoy being a part of their process.

    I am currently in a PhD program for Expressive Therapies where my focus is in working with sexual minority women who have a history of substance use utilizing the expressive therapies. In my free time I love to paint, spend time with all my animals (there are a lot of them), and read. I'm also a bit of a geek so enjoy X-Men comic books, periodic video games, and whatever other things make my geeky little heart happy at that moment. I enjoy listening to many different types of music. I like to incorporate some of my interests along with those of my clients into treatment because I feel that counseling can have an element of fun to it and that utilizing our unique interests within the session can help us connect with ourselves.

 

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