ABOUT

Providing Teletherapy in Washington, Florida, South Carolina, Vermont, and Delaware.

My approach is centered on helping you reach your goals. I offer a non-judgmental safe space to be open and vulnerable about your struggle and compassionately explore how your life can improve in ways that are meaningful for you. I believe in the idea of the wounded healer and it is through our common humanity that I relate to my clients, however unique. I also believe our problems don’t exist in a bubble, but the struggles we face also occur embedded in the larger systems of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, religion, and national identity.

I work with individuals, couples, and families and children with a variety of concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma recovery, PTSD, attachment injuries, loneliness, grief, loss, miscarriage/infertility, food and body issues, anger, self-harm, unhealthy relationship to substance use, mood disorders, life transitions, relationship issues, family of origin issues, existential crisis around meaning of life, teen issues, parenting, domestic violence, and healing after sexual abuse and assault.

I have reverence and open mindedness in regards to paths of spirituality and faith, including recovering from religious trauma. I often lean on ideas in secular buddhism around compassion, acceptance, and skillful action.

I am LGBTQIA, kink, and poly friendly and have a focus on transgender issues.

My approach is integrative of models including: Family systems, Attachment Theory, Somatic Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Jungian Shadow Work and Dream Work, Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Schema Therapy, Existential Therapy, Experiential Theory, Emotion Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, CBT/DBT, Mindfulnesses, Secular Buddhist Therapy, Humanistic psychology, Psychodynamic theory, Liberation Therapy, and Feminist Theory.

I specialize in the following areas:

Adult child and parent dynamics and adult sibling issues navigating relational healing and boundaries. Especially when high control, copdendency, personality disorders, abuse/neglect, and emotional immaturity are at play.

Supporting women in perimenopause and menopause. This is a significantly emotionally turbulent time that can take you by surprise in your 40’s and can be so disconcerting. So finding ways to cope is extremely important.

Helping process big transitions and existential issues such as midlife issues and realignment of current values.

Guiding people through the emotions and decision process of moving to another country and becoming an Expat. It is important hold space to process reasons and values… and how big of a change this can be. As well as the fear and grief that can come with leaving to create a new life abroad. A new life in another country can be very hopeful and exciting and a wonderful choice! It can also come with cultural shock that is hard to navigate emotionally. I have personally experienced this and can be of help through the rollercoaster of emotions and logistics.

Working with PTSD and C-PTSD and the trauma of the legal processes sexual violence and intimate partner violence.

Education

• Master's Degree in Psychology, Couple and Family Therapy  - Antioch University, Seattle

• Bachelor of Arts in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Honors - University of Washington

Awards

• Student of the Year 2016 Washington Association of Marriage and Family Therapy

• Women Studies Capstone Award for thesis on Healing after Sexual Violence

• Sterling and Gene Munro Fellow for Public Service 

Advocacy & Service

• Guest Lecturer in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Courses 

• RAINN Speakers Bureau - The nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization

• P.A.V.E., Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment

• Designed and taught a course focusing on Self-care in Social Justice Work

• New Graduates Address Speaker at UW Women Studies Graduation 

• Home Alive Volunteer, Fundraiser, and Auction Contributor

• Women Studies Departmental Development Advancement Committee Member

• Legal Voice Volunteer

• Washington Community Action Network Volunteer

Memberships

• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)

• Washington Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (WAMFT)

• Psychology Today 

License

• Marriage and Family Therapist License Washington State LF61136552

• NPI 1861939472

• Vermont Teletherapy License number 100.0134298TELE

• South Carolina Teletherapy License number 1108

• Delaware Telehealth License number MI-0000146

• Florida Telehealth License number TPMF1298