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About My Clients
My clients run the gamuts of gender, sexual, relational, and racial identities, socioeconomic status, HIV status, neurodiversity, and more. My clients are willing to explore connection with a therapist, to be witnessed and challenged at times, and embrace that counseling is a deliberate process of reckoning with many facets of life of the past, present, and future. My clients may be looking for long term transformation, access gender affirming care, or brief contact for new changes.
My Background and Approach
Whether we like it or not, our lives are facilitated by the fact that we are beings with embodied consciousness. We have bodies, and we think, a lot. My approach launches from this truth and incorporates your physical body's sensations and experiences as well as your thoughts and feelings to develop a deeper understanding of how you function, release tension, and cultivate new adaptations to bring greater health, as defined by you. Whether you are struggling from relational chaos, grief, trauma, or even have the words to communicate the nature of your distress, I will work with you to first explore the truth and wisdom of what is happening for you right now, and then to gently shift into a position of enhanced agency over your life force. But wait, there's more! Our bodies and our minds do not operate in a vacuum--we are surrounded by multiple layers of historical social and systemic forces that shape our environments. We will evaluate pertinent contextual factors together.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am a proud member of the queer community, and have worked for years with other LGTBQI2S+ folks. I have training in addiction counseling and apply a harm reduction lens when working with you on substance or behavioral relationships that you want to change. I incorporate Health At Every Size into my work. I invite conversations of power and privilege to the therapy room, and aim to practice with a critical decolonizing framework. There are some beliefs that I leave outside of the therapy room, but these are all ones that will be present in our counseling relationship.