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About My Clients
I specialize in working with individuals who have experienced trauma, including complex trauma, PTSD, and sexual violence. I also support those navigating depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and other mental health challenges. As a Queer clinician, I am passionate about working with the LGBTQIA2S+ community and provide gender care for TGNC+ individuals. My approach is trauma-informed, collaborative, and tailored to each person’s unique experience.
My Background and Approach
My approach is integrative and eclectic, drawing from a range of methods to create a therapeutic experience tailored to your unique personhood. I often employ trauma-informed interventions, evidence-based practices, narrative therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Somatics to support healing and self-discovery. As an EMDR-trained (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) provider, I use this approach to facilitate healing from trauma, distressing experiences, and harm. As both a practicing artist and art therapist, I deeply believe in the healing power of creative practice. I often integrate arts-based interventions alongside various therapeutic modalities, enhancing our ability to process experiences, gain insight, and foster self-discovery.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am an active member of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and currently facilitate an arts-based peer support group for LGBTQIA2S+ youth in the Southside of Chicago. In my clinical practice, I work from a social justice, anti-oppressive lens that centers liberatory praxis and healing justice. I prioritize acknowledgment, processing, empowerment, agency, and voice, while also considering the broader dynamics of power structures. Through this work, I promote an understanding that we all live in politicized, intersectional bodies, and I integrate this perspective throughout the therapeutic journeys of the people I work with.