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About My Clients
For over 10 years, I've gotten to help clients navigate: gender identity, medical & social gender transition, GAS surgery prep & letters, coming out, self-esteem, HIV/AIDS, nonmonogamy, kink, stigma, & building healthy relationships. My liberation-focused framework is collaborative, affirming, & intersectional. Beyond queer-specific issues, my focus also includes EMDR, trauma recovery, PTSD, ADHD, autism, neurodiversity, depression, anxiety, & recovery from unhealthy/narcissistic relationships.
My Background and Approach
In my practice, I offer both EMDR (for those with trauma) and talk therapy (psychodynamic, CBT, ACT, DBT skills, attachment-focused). In traditional talk therapy, we'll note how your past impacts your present, and learn coping and communication tools together. In EMDR, we'll use special protocols & exercises to decrease triggers/trauma responses, and desensitize painful memories.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Coming from a strong social work and LGBTQ+ non-profit background, I've gotten to really see how marginalized communities often struggle to get the care they need and deserve. And frankly, sometimes engaging in systems not built for you can cause real harm. I provide full fee and sliding scale letters/assessments for gender-affirming surgery because I feel passionate about increasing access to lifesaving care. I always want to acknowledge that each person comes into therapy with needs and values that are uniquely their own. By holding space for every person's intersecting identities and lived experience, therapy gets to be tailored to the client, rather than prescribed as a uniform, rigid system of treatment.