I’ve been in the field for many years, practicing counseling since 2001 and practicing formal clinical psychotherapy since 2011.

My anti-oppressive stance means I am actively against all forms of harm and generally pro-liberation. This means I recognize the ways in which I contribute to harm and call people in when they cause harm.

Psychotherapy is different in that it is a legal, formal, and regulated way of offering care to people for their mental health. While I am still practicing, I find there are ways I would like to reach more people in an educational way and aim to keep that separate. Offering coaching means I may do less processing and more active and change directed support.

I’m a white, cis-het woman and use she/her pronouns. I come from poverty as a child, and I am dynamically disabled with chronic illness. The range of privileged and marginalized identities has given me deep insight and empathy for those who are different than I am - because I realize it is complicated to be a human in our inequitable social structures.

My meditation practice, my commitment to social and political change and my loved ones inspire me to do better, be better and feel more deeply.

I aspire to help men unlearn harmful emotional self-neglect, learn to connect more deeply and integrate emotional selves into their inner experience. I have witnessed so many men in individual and couples therapy have struggled with empathy for their partners, and especially for themselves. The shame that comes along with not meeting their partner’s needs or for having emotions is incredibly burdensome, and I aim to help men release this in order to open their hearts. I believe so much social, emotional, and intergenerational wounding can be healed with this practice.