With Whom & How I Work

This life can be hard, and we all cope somehow. It’s easier to shift how you’re coping with life when you have good support.

I work with people interested in going below the surface - who more than just managing symptoms, want to inspect the roots of whatever’s impeding their sense of fulfillment.

I see perfectionists, people navigating neurodivergence, and people in long-term recovery from substance misuse.

I also help people explore deep questions of meaning, identity, and/or spirituality in an effort to come into closer contact with themselves.

My approach is warm, holistic, and affirming of who you are and where you’ve come from to get here. I believe what truly makes therapy work is the trust and authenticity we build between us.

My perspective is wide and informed by harm reduction values, parts-work/IFS perspectives, Jungian psychology, and somatic practices. I don’t use any one methodology because people are more complex than that. You’ll likely feel all of these in working with me.

My practice is also affirming of natural human diversity - including kink-, gender-, sexuality-, and poly-spectrums. Come as you are, my friend.

Guiding Values

• Inner wisdom

  • I fundamentally believe you are already whole, and that under the right conditions you have the inherent ability to heal yourself. The work we do focuses on creating those conditions to foster the communication between - and integration and expression of - all parts of you.

• Relationship

  • Many mental health difficulties and disorders occur not because of traumatic experiences, but as a result of isolation during and/or after a trauma. Isolation can occur despite good intentions of us and those around us. Healing must therefore occur while in relationship to another person. This is the value of therapy. 

• Honesty in being

  • A dear mentor of mine says, “we learn from each other’s being”. Being genuine with each other is deeply heartening and creates the conditions for change.

• Nature

  • We are all part of the natural world, and much illness stems from forgetting or fighting this. 

• Pleasure

  • Reconnecting with pleasure re-tunes the body to move toward rather than away. A healthy relationship with pleasure is critical to sustainable aliveness.

• Nourishment

  • Our bodies and souls need the right amount of diverse nourishment to thrive. This means good food, soul-feeding connections, deep sleep, experiences of awe, investment in purposeful behavior, and satisfying movement. I would love to help you have all of these!