My Approach

I am warm, kind, and empathetic.

I care deeply about my clients and I’m told it shows through my kind eyes, my gentle words, and my keen attentiveness. I want you to feel seen and known.

I also believe feeling safe is critical to healing from what ails us. Of course, I can’t promise that you and your nervous system will feel immediately safe in my care, but I can promise I will strive to help you feel increasingly safe over time.

I accompany and collaborate.

I primarily draw from a type of psychotherapy known as Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). AEDP practitioners believe that trauma happens when a person has to face overwhelming emotions without adequate support. We believe that helping people “undo their aloneness” in supportive, gentle ways can facilitate healing and transformation.

I facilitate experiences.

I care deeply about who you are and what your story is. But I also believe that having specific types of experiences in therapy can help facilitate transformation in a way that standard talk therapy cannot.

I often bring my clients back to what they are experiencing in that exact moment with questions like, “What are you noticing is happening for you right now?”

I care deeply about our relationship.

I believe our therapeutic relationship can be a great catalyst for change and I use it routinely in my work. You will often hear me ask variations on the question, “What’s it like for us to have experienced that together, just now?”

It’s normal for human beings to have moments of missing each other, or experiencing conflict. I will undoubtedly say or do something imperfectly during our time together! But I believe part of the therapeutic process is working through difficult moments and finding ways to repair our relationship. Usually the relationship is even stronger afterward.

I am somatically oriented.

I believe that somatic experiences can be powerful tools to help our brains find new ways of being in the world. You’ll hear questions from me such as, “What do you notice in your body as we start to discuss this?”

I know that the idea of making contact with your body can be new and even intimidating. We can explore gently and slowly together to allow you to dip your toes into these new waters.

I believe in inclusive care and liberatory frameworks.

I practice from an intersectional feminist, social justice lens and I believe that experiences of oppression and ostracism can be profoundly traumatic.

I am fat positive (and body positive), Health At Every Size®-informed, anti-racist, LGBTQIA2S+ affirming, neurodiversity affirming, and sex positive. I welcome all clients to my practice, whatever their race, ethnicity, religion, size, gender, sexuality, disabilities, citizenship, or social class.

Like all of us, I am a work-in-progress in my social justice pursuits. I constantly strive to be culturally affirming and responsive in my practice, to dig deeper into anti-racist ideas and practices, and to be humble and accountable when I inevitably make mistakes.

Of course, I am not an expert on all identities and social locations. If you want a particular aspect of your identity to be a focus of your therapy and it’s not a specialty of mine, I’ll let you know! I am happy to help you find someone with that specific expertise.