Services
About My Clients
I offer compassionate care & therapy to individual adults who’ve experienced trauma; who are struggling with body acceptance or navigating weight stigma; and who are managing life transitions and emotional complications related to family building, reproductive health and perinatal mental health. Many of the people I work with are first and second generation immigrants, LGBTQIA+ individuals, fat, and discovering their neurodivergence as adults.
My Background and Approach
I respect the ways your body, nervous system, narratives, and emotional life have made sense of the world and your place in it and can support you in letting go of what is no longer serving you. I value my training in relational psychodynamic & attachment therapy; behavioral therapies; and somatic therapies including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) & somatic experiencing. I also draw from my personal mindfulness practices and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training. I have close to 20 years of post-graduate clinical experience with individuals and families in outpatient medical and mental health facilities, community-based child and family services, in a partial hospitalization program for pregnant and postpartum people, and in private practice. I also follow Health at Every Size® principles, am fat positive and recognize the impacts of weight stigma.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am passionate about destigmatizing mental health challenges and holding space for the ways oppressions - racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-fat bias, ableism among others - and social and cultural parenting pressures affect us. At my heart, I strongly believe in social work’s core values outlined in the Code of Ethics: service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity and competence. Simultaneously, I recognize the profession’s legacy of upholding racist and patriarchal systems. I strive for a practice that is anti-racist and provides anti-oppression care by engaging in my own learning and consultation. I believe that we find healing, strength and resilience in connection — therapy might be one part of that, and healing also often happens in formal and informal groups, in our families, and in our communities. In my therapy office there’s also laughter, tea, tissues, fidgets, plants, and fun, textured pillows.