get into your aliveness.
“There’s no liberation without actually leaning forward and looking at the things that we habitually run away from, in order to see things as they really are.”
depth oriented psychotherapy for people who’ve been through some sh*T.
About therapy with me:
Maybe you’ve noticed: there are about ten million different kinds of therapy modalities. Some focus on your thoughts, some are about behavior, some are entirely about the body. Many subtly suggest they’re the #1 key to getting yourself good and healed. My bias is we humans are more complex than that. Our minds and bodies are interconnected, so an integrative approach that adapts to each person makes the most sense.
In therapy with me, instead of running you through a protocol or sticking to a singular modality, we will build a relationship over time—finding out together what’s useful from my training for your unique experience. Therapy isn’t something I do to you but is a process I’m in with you.
Most of us need help becoming ourselves, learning to be with our emotional experience, and understanding our patterns of being. We form our ways of dealing with life early on, and often there’s a lot to them that’s outside our conscious awareness. It takes a respectful and trustworthy relationship to help us see ourselves clearly. As we create the space to listen deeply to your experience, your body, your mind and your symptoms, a process begins. Things stir to the surface and space opens up that can create lasting growth and change. I’ve experienced in my own life the transformative power of this kind of work.
In sessions, I’m direct, warm, real, and engaged. I believe the therapist’s integrity matters deeply to the process. I’m committed to investigating the racist, capitalist hierarchies we’re all handed about healing and well-being, and take a firm de-pathologizing, anti-carceral, pro-community stance that centers the autonomy of my patients.
Therapy with me is not light work, and it takes time, but I can reasonably predict we’ll have some laughter with the tears. Nobody’s funnier than people with DSM diagnoses. I’ve had some in my chart, so I can say that.
Areas of Focus:
I often work with people who feel like outsiders or at the margins in some way, as well as people who’ve had difficult experiences with other attempts at therapy. Some clinical areas of focus include (but aren’t limited to):
Complex Trauma, CPTSD
Developmental Trauma
Religious trauma and cult recovery
Depression, anxiety, dissociation
Difficulty with relationships
Ambiguous grief and loss, life transitions
Queer and trans clients (kink+ sex work + and nonmonogamy+)
Multicultural backgrounds, highly mobile backgrounds, TCKs, artists
White people working with whiteness
Logistics:
Rhythm: Once per week. Often as the work progresses, meeting 2x/3x per week can be useful.
Fee: $100 - $160 / 50 min session sliding scale
I reserve openings in my schedule at a reduced rate for those who experience discrimination in hiring and pay level, people who are descended from enslaved peoples and Indigenous peoples, and some other situations on a case by case basis. Don’t hesitate to ask about a reduced rate with me during a consultation.
How to Inquire:
I offer an initial free consultation to open up what brings you to therapy and for me to share how I work. Get in touch here.
“When we view living. . . only as a problem to be solved, we rely solely upon our ideas to make us free, for these were what the white fathers told us were precious. But as we come more into touch with our own ancient, non-european consciousness of living as a situation to be experienced and interacted with, we learn more and more to cherish our feelings, and to respect those hidden sources of our power from where true knowledge and, therefore, lasting action comes. ”