My approach to therapy might be a little different than others. Solutions and outcomes are important - we come to therapy to feel and see change. Yet, how I get there involves a deeper dive - an understanding, communing with the places in ourselves we may want to otherwise avoid.

Individual Therapy

I am a client centered, transpersonal therapist and predominately use gestalt, somatic (how, what and where you are feeling) and parts theories (identifying, acknowledging and welcoming the different parts of us) to approach our work together. My style is creative, direct and warmly intimate.

My life experience and personality allow me to sit with and relate deeply to a wide range of people. This can look like: holding folks in the evolution of their queer journey - gender and sexual identity and expression, people looking to understand and integrate their experience and symptoms of neurodivergence (ADHD, OCD, OCPD), transitions to parent hood, post partum depression and anxiety for the birthing parent, aging, deep generational patterns and cycles. People who feel like the sit at the perimeter of society, eccentric personalities, artists, non conformists find a safe haven in me.

I create a space that is radically free of judgment and accepting of the parts of you that may feel too dark or difficult to bring to light and talk about. There is nothing too deep, heavy or taboo that I can’t hear from and hold with you. Together we can unpack, process and release what no longer serves you at a pace that is set by you. In this journey I think you will find that next to your deepest fears or challenges lies your well of resilience and agency. I will guide and support you in releasing old patterns that no longer serve you, giving you the freedom to make different choices and set off on a new path.

Areas of Focus:

Identity - Queer emergence, transition, reclamation
Self esteem, shame and shadow work (perfectionism, constant striving/production, rumination, dark or intruding thoughts)
Depressive and Anxiety Disorders
Inter - Generational trauma - historical patterns of grief, sorrow and fear

Relationships

I enjoy and have extensive experience working with novelty, emergence, transition, betrayal and grief within relationships. Sitting with the dynamic nature of your relationship allows us to envision and create a model that works for all people involved. Opening up to this process can be exciting, vulnerable and maybe a little scary. I will guide us in identifying what it is everyone wants and needs from the relationship from the emotional to the sexual to the logistical. From there we can work to heal what needs to be healed and rebuild or create a new foundation to begin the next cycle of your connection.

Areas of Focus:

Non traditional relationship, family and parenting models (Queer, Solo, ENM,Poly, Coparenting (single, cohabitating, hybrid)
Communication: trust, desire discrepancies, sexual history and traumas
Developing and maintaining consensual erotic and intimate connection
Intentional and respectful transition or separation

Sessions

My sessions are 50 minutes and I offer in person, virtual and hybrid options to people in the state of California. My office is located in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco.

Sliding scale is available, is dependent on financial need and on a case by case basis. Please ask! Priority is given to members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community.