Hi, I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist wit over 8 years of clinical experience in the SAcramento CA community at several community based organizations. I specialize in working with marginalized populations particularly LGBTQIA++ folks, with a focus on people who are Transgender and Gender other, as well as those folks who participate in polyamory, pansexuality, and adult consensual BDSM. I am also fully qualified to provide sex therapy to couples and polyamorous constellations. I have clinical experience with life transitions, death and dying, grief and loss, and adolescents and their families.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
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.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
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 re-defining how our language defines and often enforces of re-enforces our experiences in life both positive and negative.
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145 Hartnell Pl, Sacramento, CA 95825, Sacramento, CA, 95825-6609Appointments
Virtual & in-personMy treatment methods
Strength-Based
Language is powerful, and we all have solutions in our lives that can be wielded to empower us to overcome life circumstances in creative and collaborative ways. I model to my folks how this works in real time so that they can pick up these tools and use them independently.
Adlerian
Checking in with our genuine subjective experience gives us permission to more fully experience emotions, body sensations, and responses to others. Opening the possibilities for finding our genuine voice with integrity and possibilities can be one of many positive outcomes from integrating Adlerian style approaches.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Emotions can be tricky, at times almost overpowering. When we learn how to recognisze accept and allow ourselves to experience emotions without allow them to take over our behaviors, we are able to achieve "wise-mind," which is the sweet spot that allows both emotion mind and rational mind to co-exist and even work together to empower our behaviors, decisions, and communication.
Somatic
The human body is an incredible warehouse of information. A headache or stomach ache might actually be a way that your body is communicating to you that something is off. When we learn to listen to our body, we can change and grow how we take care of ourselves and others.
Gender-affirming therapy
Gender identity can be complicated, but I like to make it simple. We live in a society that informs our social identity, our social location, and conditions us to hold certain beliefs as true. When we learn to unlearn concepts of identity, gender experiences, and sexual orientation, we are able to affirm ourselves and strengthen our sense of self.