About

Approach to Counseling

I believe that all bodies contain the wisdom of wholeness, and fractured connections to ourselves and others impact the way we process stress. Adjusting to your body, listening to its needs, and redefining the meaning of healing will be where our work begins. Together, befriending your nervous system and becoming grounded and attuned to new realities will come with humor, creativity, and bravery.

I utilize techniques of Somatic Experiencing and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and the relational approach of existentialism. In practice, this means spending time being present and curious about values, emotions, and experiences and learning skills to regulate the nervous system in the meantime. I am informed by the disability justice movement and continue to seek ways to create intersectional, anti ableist spaces in my counseling practice and within my community. I value and honor the work of holding space for navigating experiences of identity development. Our work will hold space for the unique ways you adjust, cope and mend emotional wounds.

I aim to provide anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-patriarchal(cis/het), trauma informed, gender affirming, Health At Every Size informed counseling. As a white cis counselor, I am committed to exploring how power and privilege has manifested within health care and healing processes. Outside of counseling, I am passionate about providing anti-bias education for counselors and health care practitioners.