Get to know me

In our first session together, here's what you can expect

To work for the "30,000 ft view" and start the conversations that we will collaboratively unfold in future appointments. I find use of the initial appointment as a "level set" for what clients can expect from my therapeutic style, moving forward.

The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions

Throughout my experiences working in mental health, I have discovered strong abilities to forge healthy therapeutic alliances with people of wide varieties of life-experience. I approach each appointment with a respectful curiosity and acknowledgment of the authority the individual possesses over their own experience. My approach is also filtered through a lens of trauma-informed care. Trauma often can leave a person with a sense of powerlessness. That trauma story is undoubtedly one part, but not the whole, of the person's story. I see it as an honor, to be invited into these intimate spaces, when a person shares their vulnerability with me, and in this risking of vulnerability, we turn toward the dissonance we may feel, and can find that, with the right support, the way out is through.

The clients I'm best positioned to serve

Veterans, LGBTQIA+, disenfranchised populations, people who have experienced religious trauma and/or religious deconstruction, ages 18-75 years old. I love working with individuals experiencing challenges in life transitions, as well as challenging the moral judgments of "unproductive," "unmotivated" and "lazy," focusing on the contexts that exist, even if that context remains unclear.

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