About Me
I am a lesbian, white-presenting, mixed race LMSW. I believe my identity informs the work I do, and I pull on these in my practice.
How I work
I am flexible in my approach. I see therapy as a space that can shift week to week to meet different needs as they come up. I also will gently remind or bring up patterns of avoidance I may notice and guide us back to the deeper work, if needed.
I pull on evidence based modalities, including EMDR, IFS, and psychodynamic/attachment based frameworks. I aim to facilitate a relationship with my clients where we can explore and understand parts of themselves without judgement of who they are and what they want to become.
Helping my clients feel empowered, embodied, oriented, and attuned to themselves and others is my priority. I believe deep, meaningful healing can be done, when it is ready to come to the surface. Safety, trust, and care are foundational both within and externally when looking at old wounds, much less opening them up.
Who I work with:
I specialize in working with queer and trans people, people of color, and creatives (those in creative fields or not). I also engage in couples or relationship therapy for monogamous and polyamorous people.
My clients in both relationship and individual therapy are open and commited to explore deeper parts of themselves that may be impacting the way they are seeing and behaving in the world. Peeling back the why is common with my clients, as we trace where deeper wounds may be popping up, how to navigate them in the now, and also working towards healing them as we do.
My clients usually are in relationship dynamics, work situations, or creative spaces where how they feel is not matching the situation they can see they’re in. My clients are usually looking to understand what patterns are being enacted within themselves and between themselves and others, hoping to not only understand them but actively work towards shifting them. My clients appreciate using a combination of present based emotional support and digging into reprocessing and healing the wounds in the past that have are affecting what they experience now.
Beliefs/Notes on Therapy:
I want to highlight that I see therapy as a space for intentional healing, and it is not everything. Healing cannot be done in a vacuum. I acknowledge the deep layers of harm caused by isolation and lack of community, white supremacy and the structures it upholds including capitalism and racism and trans- and homophobia. While therapy is a huge part of healing deep emotional wounds, there is a realistic lens I hold that until these systems are dismantled, there will still be perpetuation of harm that all humans are affected by.
That doesn’t mean I don’t think therapy is impactful.I believe it is, otherwise I wouldn’t be doing it. I do, however, see it as one piece of the much larger puzzle, acknowledging it’s own roots in white supremacy and colonization. I believe it is helpful and can be deeply healing, when it is alongside experiences that support the positive beliefs we want to have about ourselves and others. This can take many forms and look differently depending on each person. But to understand how I practice, is to also understand how I view therapy.
I do believe therapy can enact lasting change and can be extremely beneficial, when it is used carefully and when the therapist and client alliance is strong. Helping my clients feel empowered, embodied, oriented, and attuned to themselves and others within the structures of our society is my priority.If you feel we would be a good fit, it would be an honour to work with you and accompany you on your healing journey.
I graduated from New York University with an MSW. My LMSW license number is 119865. I was trained in EMDR at the EMDR Institute.