About Me

BIO

I am a white, gay, genderqueer, working class, third culture person (any pronouns). I was born in the US, but grew up in Central Asia and Turkey, moving to the US at 18 to attend college in the South. After several years in Tennessee and Texas, grad school brought me to Seattle. As much as I’ve grown to love it here, my heart is forever with the global and American South.

Along the way, I’ve always worked with my hands - whether making mud pies as a little kid in Samarkand, creating production ceramics in Houston, or hauling coffee around a warehouse in Seattle. I still wear the life out of some silly putty in sessions as a therapist. I’m an artist, I’m always reading 6 books at once, and I feel most like myself when I’m swimming nakey in a big old lake.

EDUCATION

I have a Bachelors degree in Studio Art with an emphasis on ceramics and sculpture, and a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School. In graduate school I concentrated my studies on Trauma & Abuse, with a parallel investigation on the role of shame in perpetuating white supremacy and religious traumatization. My clinical internship was completed at Greenlake Wellness Group, where I provided therapy to teens and adults in an affordable therapy program.

SUPERVISION

I am grateful to be under the clinical supervision of Smruti Desai, LPC, LMHC.

Learn more about her here.