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.

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.

Individual Therapy

I support 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. I resonate with people who feel like the sit at the perimeter of society, eccentric personalities, artists, non conformists, folks who are curious about themselves and the world. Together we can gain understanding of your challenges and envision a way of being and relating that centers and empowers you.

My space is radically free of judgment, accepting of the parts of you that feel too dark or difficult to bring to light. There is nothing too deep, heavy or taboo that I can’t hear from and hold with you. From our time together you can expect to learn how to foster resilience and agency and make decisions for your life that resonate with you on a deep level. 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.