Are you struggling to feel safe, grounded and supported? Are feelings of grief, guilt, fear or self-loathing too heavy to bear? You might struggle to take up space, worried that others will see you as strange, broken or unlovable. Perhaps you’ve considered suicide when simply being in the world felt like too much.

In my practice, I support adolescents and adults of all neurotypes who struggle with acute and complex trauma, internalized shame, anxiety, depression, and chronic suicidality. I specialize in providing therapy for LGBTQ+ and autistic individuals from a person-centered, relational lens. I also enjoy working with the “extremely online” queer community, from TTRPG nerds and fandom folks to people with therian or furry identities.

The cornerstone of my approach to counseling is unconditional positive regard, which means that nothing you do or say will stop me from seeing you as inherently worthy and lovable. No matter how you might feel about yourself, therapy is where I will hold the truth that there is nothing wrong with you. There never has been. And you deserve to claim that truth as your own.

As a queer, trans, Mad and autistic therapist, it is important to me that I stand for those whose identities are marginalized and oppressed. I believe in using my intersecting areas of privilege to advocate for meaningful change on behalf of the people and communities I work for. My hope is to offer counseling in a way that honors therapy’s roots in traditional healing practices and indigenous ways of knowing that predate and transcend Western medical models.

If all of that sounds like meaningless jargon—well, in a way, it kind of is. Clinical approach and philosophies aside, the best predictor of progress in therapy is just finding a counselor you click with. If you want to talk for a bit and see if that’s me, I’d love to meet you.