Who I Help

In our work together, we’ll support your nervous system in finding safety and steadiness. We'll begin by identifying how anxiety shows up in your body and gently building your capacity to regulate. This might include breathwork, grounding exercises, and mindfulness to help shift your physiology in the moment and reestablish a sense of calm.

We’ll also explore the thought patterns and mental loops that keep anxiety in motion—interrupting them with compassion and curiosity rather than judgment. When it feels right, we may work with anxious parts of you using Internal Family Systems (IFS), helping those parts feel less alone and more supported. This kind of work doesn’t just manage anxiety—it begins to transform your relationship with it.

For High-Achieving Professionals and Perfectionists

You might look like you’re holding everything together—showing up for work, meeting deadlines, staying “on top” of things. But underneath, there’s tension, pressure, and a constant hum of fear that it’s never enough. You may feel like rest is unsafe, success is fragile, and failure isn’t an option.

Anxiety for high-achievers often comes with inner criticism, chronic self-monitoring, burnout, and emotional disconnection. In therapy, we’ll work to quiet the relentless pressure to perform and begin listening to what your system actually needs. You’ll learn how to pause, breathe, and relate to yourself with more spaciousness and kindness—not just when everything is going well, but especially when it isn’t.

For Those Struggling with Political Anxiety

In a world that feels increasingly uncertain, many people are living with chronic stress rooted in injustice, violence, climate crisis, and political instability. If you're highly attuned to what's happening in the world, it can feel like you're constantly in survival mode—toggling between overwhelm, despair, and numbness.

Therapy won’t “fix” the state of the world—but it can help you find grounded ways to stay engaged without burning out. Together, we’ll explore how to care for your nervous system while still caring about the world. This may include resourcing practices, boundary-setting, community connection, and working with parts of you that carry deep grief or urgency. You don’t have to carry the weight of it all alone.

Healing trauma isn’t about “getting over it”—it’s about creating safety and choice where there once was none. I use a relational, client-centered approach grounded in attunement and consent. Together, we’ll gently explore your story while helping your nervous system find more stability and resilience.

We may integrate:

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

EMDR is a structured, evidence-based approach that helps the brain process and integrate stuck trauma memories using bilateral stimulation (like eye movements or tapping). It allows your system to resolve trauma without needing to re-experience every detail. EMDR is especially useful when past events still feel charged in the body or hijack your present.

I am EMDR-trained through EMDRIA (EMDR International Association), which ensures that my work with EMDR follows best practices and up-to-date standards for trauma treatment. When appropriate, we’ll use this modality to help your system reprocess what’s felt stuck and allow space for relief and resolution.

IFS (Internal Family Systems)

IFS helps you identify and work with the different parts of yourself that hold pain, protect you, or carry beliefs from earlier experiences. These might show up as anxiety, self-criticism, numbness, or over-functioning. IFS gives those parts a voice—and helps you reconnect to the deeper, grounded Self within you that can lead with compassion and clarity.

Somatic Bodywork Practices

Both EMDR and IFS in my practice are deeply grounded in somatic work. This means we pay attention to what’s happening in your body—not to control it, but to listen to it. You’ll learn gentle grounding techniques, breath practices, and awareness skills to help regulate your nervous system and build a stronger foundation of embodied safety.

Trauma can make you feel like your body is unsafe or unreliable. In our work, we’ll rebuild a sense of partnership with your body—so it becomes a resource, not just a container for pain.

There is no right way to grieve. My approach honors the uniqueness of your relationship to who (or what) was lost, and the complexity of the emotions that come with it. Our work together will center around slowing down, holding space, and bearing witness—without rushing you toward acceptance or “closure.”

We may integrate a variety of approaches based on your needs, including:

• IFS (Internal Family Systems) to connect with parts of you carrying pain, guilt, or fear

• EMDR to help metabolize traumatic aspects of the loss

• Ritual creation to honor your grief in a way that feels culturally and personally meaningful

Grief isn’t linear, and it isn’t one-size-fits-all. We’ll hold your experience in context—acknowledging your identity, culture, family history, and spiritual beliefs. In this space, you don’t have to justify your grief or make it smaller. It gets to take up space.

Individuals

I offer relational, trauma-informed therapy for LGBTQ+ individuals that is kink-affirming, non-monogamy-affirming, sex work-affirming, and grounded in deep respect for the full spectrum of queer identity and experience.

In our work, we may:

• Unpack internalized narratives and reconnect with your voice

• Explore gender, sexuality, and identity with nuance and celebration

• Grieve loss and harm—including family rupture or spiritual trauma

• Navigate coming out, transitioning, or reclaiming your body

• Process political anxiety and the toll of systemic harm

• Build deeper intimacy—with yourself, your partners, and your communities

This is work that centers liberation and embodiment. You don’t need to justify your identity here—only bring your truth.

Couples

I exclusively work with LGBTQ+ couples and partnerships because I believe our relationships deserve skilled, affirming care. Whether you’re navigating a major transition, rebuilding after conflict, or just feeling distant, couples therapy can help you find each other again.

I use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a research-backed approach that helps couples understand and shift the emotional patterns that create disconnection. EFT focuses on creating safety, vulnerability, and secure attachment between partners—no matter your relationship structure or identity.

EFT honors both individuality and interdependence. It’s not about fixing each other—it’s about finding each other.

My approach is grounded in celebrating neurodivergence, not fixing it. Whether its ADHD, Autism, or AuDHD, together, we’ll build a practice of self-accommodation—finding what works for you, not what’s expected of you.

In our work, we may:

• Identify and unlearn internalized ableism and shame

• Develop personalized executive function strategies

• Explore how your nervous system processes the world (through a polyvagal-informed lens)

• Reconnect with your natural rhythms, preferences, and sensory needs

• Create a framework for navigating relationships, work, and rest in a way that honors your capacity

• Process grief around not being seen, or the pressure to “pass” as neurotypical

Therapy may include mindfulness, parts work (IFS), body-based grounding, and cognitive strategies, depending on what feels accessible and effective for you. You set the pace, and we adapt tools together.

Working With Your Nervous System

Many neurodivergent people have nervous systems that are in a chronic state of overwhelm, vigilance, or collapse—especially if you’ve had to mask, over-adapt, or internalize high expectations from an early age.

Through somatic awareness, grounding, and compassionate noticing, we’ll help your system learn what it’s like to feel safe enough to just be. This work is not about becoming someone else—it’s about becoming more yourself with less friction and more support.