Specializations:
Anxiety and Trauma recovery: Focus on emotional safety, recovery and well being. Learn skills to manage and work with anxiety, rumination and triggers from past trauma.
Sex positive therapy: Affirming and knowledgeable care for alternative consensual and diverse sexualty. Support with desire discovery, healing through sexuality. Coaching for dynamic lifestyle relationships, identifying communicating desires, needs and boundaries. Support for deepening intimacy, self acceptance, consent, sexual orientation and sexuality over the lifespan.
Navigating Polyamory: Support with cultiivating fufilling relationships within alternative systems/structures. Therapy can include help with jelousy, attachment anxiety, gaining clarity about your desires, feelings, needs and effectively communicating with involved parties in the system, managing societal marginalization.
Healing Relationship Patterns: Healing and processing wounds from past relationships. Help with self-abandonment or “loosing one’s self” by utilizing the therapeutic relationship as a space to notice and practice staying true to yourself while connected with another. Help with emotional regulation to feel steady while expressing yourself.
Extreme states otherwise known as psychosis experiences : Support with making sense of extreme states and feelng safer in the world with (visions, hallucinations, paranoia). Support with early prodromal, CHR, episodic experiences. Approaches include CBTp, CFT, feeling safe approach and family education and support see more regarding modalities here).
Family support: Help with recovery from mental health concerns in the family. Caring for a family member with mental illness.
Adolescent Therapy: ages 14+ (see adolescent therapy page)
Somatic body oriented approaches: Therapy that centers the body experience as a source of meaning making, self-understanding and connection to your emotions. Somatic psychotherapy utilizes sensory awareness, movement and focused embodied attention. This can help with regulating your emotions, accelerate inner clarity and help changes in therapy be longer lasting.
I affirm and provide therapy for LGBTQQIA+ TG/NB/GNC community, altsex, polyamorous/non-monogomous, heterosexual and monogomous sexualities. I see a wide variety of individuals in my practice: creative professionals, scientists, physicians, parents, activists, non-conformists, therapists and body workers. I work with neurodiverse indviduals, transitional age youth (TAY), adolescents and queer and gender non-conforming folx.