Emotional overwhelm – whether it comes from anxiety, depression, or the impact of trauma – can feel so difficult to manage. You might feel out of control, or you might feel disconnected from your emotions in an uncomfortable way.

I have training to provide EMDR therapy, which is an evidence-based treatment that helps the brain reprocess and heal from trauma. You can read more about EMDR here: https://www.emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/

The bulk of my experience as a therapist in outpatient, residential, and inpatient settings has been focused on working with anxiety, depression, PTSD and complex trauma to help clients build a vibrant and grounded relationship with their emotions.

– Build skills for managing emotional overwhelm and stress.

– Develop your ability to notice your internal “no” and set boundaries.

– Acknowledge how systems of oppression like white supremacy, patriarchy, transphobia, and homophobia, etc can shape your self-esteem and emotional expression.

– Improve your ability to communicate your needs and feelings.

– Deepen your understanding of how your past experiences impact your emotions and how you make sense of the world.

– Process the ways trauma has shaped your body and nervous system, and bring more peace and agency to those physical responses.

You can also check out dance/movement therapy below to read more about my approach to working with anxiety, depression, and PTSD.

I have specialized in providing therapy for LGBTQIA+ clients for many years. As a member of the community, I know how hard it is to find a healthcare provider who is not only competent and respectful of these identities, but celebrates them and understands nuances within the community.

I provide individual and relationship therapy for gender and sexually diverse folks including queer, trans, asexual, and polyamorous/open/ethically non-monogamous clients, as well as clients who practice kink and BDSM.

I also have years of training, supervision, and experience providing sex therapy and gender therapy through a queer lens. In particular I have supported people in the process of gender questioning, exploring, and transitioning. I have worked with desire discrepancies between partners, low libido, erectile dysfunction, and sexual shame. I also have a great deal of experience working with pelvic pain.

I frequently work as a consultant for a variety of healthcare providers, providing training on how to create safer more affirming care for queer and trans patients.

Working in both a verbal and body-based way became even more important to me as I deepened the work I do with queer and trans folks and with healing trauma. The most recent research tells us that trauma often disconnects the mind from the body, and creates physical changes in our nervous systems. This research reflects that therapy is effective when we work with the body to process and resolve the ways trauma has impacted us physically.

For queer and trans folks, the body can be a complicated place and many of us have developed ways of disconnecting from our bodies to hide our identities, protect ourselves, or distance from feelings about our gender or sexuality that we don’t know what to do with. Body-based therapy is one way to start to reconnect these splits.

Because it can feel intense or vulnerable to pay attention to your body, I’m dedicated to taking it at the pace the client wants. We might not work with movement for a long time – or at all – in our work together, depending on what you feel safe with. You are in control of how deep we go into that work.

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