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About My Clients
**PLEASE NOTE** I am currently only accepting clients for couples counseling. My clients tend to identify somewhere on the LGBTQIA2S+ spectrum and/or are from historically marginalized groups. My clients range in gender, sexuality, race, and family orientation. Often, my client's have unresolved or unknown issues from childhood that have come to the surface in adulthood, sometimes in particularly triggering moments of parenting or while navigating the relationship building process.
My Background and Approach
My theoretical orientation is psychoanalytic, with heavy doses of multicultural, feminist, and social justice influences at the forefront. This means that together we will dive deep into your early attachments and histories, gain valuable insight from your current thoughts and feelings, and increase your understanding and acceptance of yourself. Collaboratively, we will work to get under the surface of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to find the root causes, and reshape the systems and internalized cultures that are no longer working for you. By identifying the things you may be avoiding, we will uncover themes and processes that have brought you here today and help you articulate your emotional life, putting words to things you may never have had space for before. Our work together will focus on increasing psychological and emotional flexibility, making meaningful changes, and finding safety in relationships, including the relationship you have with yourself.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I use she/her/hers pronouns and identify as a white, queer, cisgender woman. I have particular training and lived experience in queer and interracial relationships, parenting, and social justice issues. With continued education on cultural humility and responsiveness, I aim to practice from an anti-racist/anti-oppressive and body-neutral lens. I became a therapist after being in a similar position that you find yourself in right now and have an endless passion for healing cycles of intergenerational trauma. I personally believe that everyone can benefit from therapy and that no concern is too big or too small to work on. Outside of work, I actively participate in racial and social justice movements, including LGBTQIA+ and anti-mass incarceration actions. These things and the systems we all navigate inform my work as a therapist.