Mental health looks different on everyone. 

Just like no two sunrises are the same, your mental health doesn’t look like anyone else's. Your growth is unique to you. The vital element in a truly felt sense of wellness across the spectrum is an embodied, compassionate curiosity for your thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Avoiding emotions or focusing too much on fear and anger can lead to rigid reactivity and brittle fragility. Navigating the subtle and overt oppressive forces in daily life can cause some of our most profound suffering. In session, we will cultivate compassionate curiosity to explore issues that range from the nuances of anxiety or panic to the grip of feeling stuck or struggling with depression.  

Mental health is beautifully complex, varied and contextual.

Let’s explore.

We'll make room to explore what's getting in the way of your joy. We will seek to heal traumatic experiences of loss stemming from developmental, social, physical, or sexual trauma. From a strengths-based foundation, our exploration will go beyond the individual to see how the complex intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class shape your experiences, recognizing the distinct impacts of privilege and oppression on you. 

Let's experiment.

The safe space we co-create in session for genuine understanding fosters radical affirming and celebrates the beautiful diversity of our embodied experiences. With fresh and meaningful encounters that support emotional flexibility and joyful engagement of self and community, we will build on opportunities that support lasting growth, generative insight, and a deep understanding of who you are and how you want to be in your world.

Let’s celebrate.

There are many ways to measure our progress, but I have seen that when we can enjoy our lives and the people and things we have in them, there is one way we know we are feeling good: we celebrate.

When we can celebrate that each person occupies a distinct and unparalleled position in life's unfolding, we flourish. When you can celebrate the full spectrum of your experience, you flourish.

Since my earliest memories, I have been fascinated by the processes that shape our identities. I remember being in kindergarten, standing on the schoolyard during the pledge of allegiance, and wondering if everyone there believed in God. I thought we needed a pledge to meet everyone’s beliefs; surely they weren’t all the same.

As an artist, I have explored the various ways in which we construct and deconstruct our sense of self. As a clinician, I have been motivated to find ways to transform all those negative perceptions that hinder our ability to trust ourselves, cause harm, or get in the way of caring for ourselves and others.

Throughout my life, I have been drawn to look at the complex factors that shape us and how our understanding of ourselves affects our relationships with the world around us.

When working with people, I work to support their generative practices, whether they make bread, write novels, install objects in galleries, play music, or play card games. I support any and all generative ways to find liberation. Creative practices have been a generative source of healing in my life and have taken the form of dance, painting, playing with sound, songwriting, and sometimes making objects.

Between supporting folks in their growth and making things in the studio, I can be found laughing with friends and family because connecting through laughter is a resilience/resourcing practice I take very seriously. These days, I'm also gardening. Plants are the wisest of us all. 

EDUCATION

• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT#115339)

• Master’s in Counseling Psychology, The Wright Institute

• BFA, Interdisciplinary Studies, SFAI

• International Studies Program Beaux-Arts de Paris

TRAINING

• Healing Intergenerational Trauma w/ Efu Nyaki & Dr. Peter Levine

• Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate Program

• Embodied Social Justice Certificate Program w/ Rev. angel Kyodo williams

• Using Attachment Theory and Mindfulness in Couples Therapy w/ Rob Fisher, MFT