Psychotherapy is about building a relationship with ourselves so we can connect with the world in a meaningful way and cultivate a life worth living. My approach to psychotherapy is about nurturing a safe and compassionate connection with clients to support their inherent ability to heal from past traumas, build a sense of grounding and empowerment in their bodies, and to identify their core values so they can flourish in relationships, livelihood, and to pursue a life of meaning. While one valuable aspect of psychotherapy is having a safe place to experience and process difficult emotions or even deep traumas, equally important is tapping into our body’s natural ability to heal through the practice of embodiment, connecting with pleasure, and developing a relationship to spiritual practice. I offer clients a non-judgmental space to be deeply heard and witnessed in their process of healing. 

Real healing occurs when we attend to the needs of our mind, body, and spirit. My approach to psychotherapy is holistic and integrative. It can be helpful to engage in a process of cultivating insight about ourselves, learning to see and subvert patterns that do not serve us, and developing a different relationship to our past. But life does not solely occur in our minds. Our bodies hold profound wisdom, and for some people deep traumas in need of healing, that can be accessed through somatic awareness and processing. My work incorporates somatic tools and approaches that can help to heal long-held traumas by accessing the body’s natural ability to find wholeness. A cornerstone to my approach to psychotherapy is to develop practices that support our spiritual growth. Spiritually has long been sidelined in Western psychology in favor of a more rational approaches. But true contentment in life occurs when we feel spiritual alignment. For me, spiritually has nothing to do with religious dogma, and instead embraces existential questions about our ethics and values, our connection to the Earth and to other people, and how we can approach questions about our relationship to love, death, and self-actualization. 

I offer psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and polycules. I welcome clients of all backgrounds, but have special training and skills in working with members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people who are survivors of trauma, and clients interested in existential-spiritual work who are looking for support in processing transpersonal experiences. Core values I carry into my practice are anti-racism and upholding the dignity and worth of all people, body positivity, and social justice. My practice is a place where it is welcome to examine the relationship between your own personal struggles and how they intersect with the uncertainty and fear present in our society today. At the foundation of my practice as a psychotherapist is an active engagement with professional boundaries and ethics anchored in genuine care and warmth.