About Me

EDUCATION

I have a Bachelors degree in Studio Art and a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Trauma & Abuse. In grad school I focused on the role of shame intolerance in perpetuating white supremacy and religious trauma, and in my clinical internship I provided therapy to teens and adults in an affordable therapy program. I pursue continuing education in trauma treatment, healing justice, and embodiment across various modalities.

My teachers have been many outside of the formal education system and I honor as teachers the kind aunties and uncles of my childhood, art mentors and materials (especially clay), neighbors, queer and trans elders, the farmers in my life, writers, activists, and also more-than-human teachers like water and the earth.

BIO

I’m into cosmic interconnectedness, reading 6 books at once, and swimming nakey in a big old lake. I’m a soft sculpture artist interested in questions about ritual and process. I’m white, queer, trans, neurocomplex, and have had some DSM diagnoses of my own.

My cultural identity and experience of the world is definitively shaped by growing up in Central Asia, as a person of US citizenship and English and Irish settler ancestry. I moved to the US at 18 to attend college. After several years in Tennessee and Texas, grad school brought me to Seattle. I’ve grown to love it here, while my heart is always with the global and American South.

SUPERVISION

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

Learn more about her here.