About me

 

pronouns I use: she/her

I love this work. I strive to offer an authentic and creative relational space supportive to your work. My style in session is engaged, playful, and collaborative. I will attend closely to the particular elements of your identity and origins, especially the ways that these intersect, conflict, are seen and known, or go unseen and under-acknowledged.

Working in the mental health field since 2011, I completed my Masters in Social Work at the University of Washington in 2017. Training and practicing in diverse settings has allowed me to work with clients experiencing a multitude of psychological and emotional difficulties. I am a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW, #LW 61119539) in the state of Washington and Oregon. I believe that engaging in one’s own psychotherapy, consultation, and continued education and enrichment are vital in providing effective treatment and continually engage in all of these.

If you would like to set up an initial meeting, I would be glad to speak with you.

Recent Trainings and Ongoing Study:

  • Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT) Level 1 & Level 2 trainings—complete December 2024

  • Working With Parents of Child Patients with Michael Weiner, LCSW—Feb.-March 2024

  • Modern Psychoanalytic Group Training & Process Group, September 2021 with Aaron E. Black, PhD, CGP, FAGPA—ongoing

  • Speaking About Race III: A Thinking Space on the Race Complex with Frank Lowe, April 2023

  • Becoming a Neurodiverse-Affirming Practitioner, January-February 2023

    - 18-hour series with B. Laurenco, LMHC designed to help clinicians build greater awareness and familiarity with ADHD and Autistic experiences

  • Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, September 2018—May 2020

    - Two-year weekly curriculum and consultation learning contemporary psychoanalytic approaches to psychotherapy at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

“Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.”
— Teju Cole

Areas of specialization and interest include:

  • anxieties

  • relationship(s) dynamics, communication, & boundaries

  • LGBTQIA+ living and relationships

  • couples therapy

  • life transition

  • identity exploration/transition

  • human sexuality

  • trauma/abuse related to race, gender, and/or sexual orientation

  • supporting neurodivergence

  • internalized whiteness & white supremacy

  • masculinity/toxic masculinity

  • intergenerational trauma

  • relational trauma & c-PTSD

  • compulsive behaviors/thinking

  • shame, self-worth, self-trust

  • loss/endings

  • supporting psychiatric medication change and/or discontinuation processes

  • psychiatric diagnoses

  • other mood disorders

  • career

  • chronic stress, burnout