Get to know me

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

In a first session, we will get better acquainted, and explore the primary concerns that have brought us together. I listen as we define our expectations of one another through our work together, and together we collaboratively determine the present baseline (assessments, yay!), a history of your experience with this situation, your experience with therapy in the past, and define what you are hoping to achieve as a result of working with me.

The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions

I work based on my core values and principles. Primarily the ability to be fully present, transparent, congruent, open-minded, nonjudgmental, curious and straight forward, everything I do is informed by my integrity and clarity in defining and redefining how our language defines and often enforces of re-enforces our experiences in life both positive and negative.

The clients I'm best positioned to serve

I am a social justice warrior, an agent of change, and a powerhouse for my community. I am best positioned to serve members of the LGBTQIA++ population, and any folks who experience Minority Stress. I have a broad and expansive combination of lived experience and clinical training that provides me the privilege and the honor to offer an approach of combined experiential and proven clinical approaches to re-defining identity. I have a long history of assisting folks who experience social marginalization for a variety of different reasons .Social ostracism can cause intense feelings of rejection and loneliness in individuals who experience it. My own lived experience has shown me that through empowering myself with language and various practices of mindfulness and self-awareness, I am able to rewrite my own personal dominant normative narrative which informs how I show up in the world. In this way, I am able to produce a new identity, through a more confident self-awareness and radical self-acceptance and self-love, I am able to author an entirely different story ; the story that I tell myself about myself and the story that I tell others about myself. This empowering process has allowed me to see what it's like on both ends of the spectrum, both as a therapy client and as a therapist . Working in my community for decades has provided me with an expansive awareness of various social locations and ways that we can be empowered through and even in spite of our difficult challenges.

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