About

I work with a small set of approaches I know well: spiritually integrated psychotherapy, disability-affirmative therapy, narrative therapy, and drama- and play-based approaches. All of it trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming.

I use a few kinds of therapy that I know well: spiritually integrated therapy, disability-affirmative therapy (disability is part of who you are, not something to fix), narrative therapy, and drama- and play-based approaches. I always go at your pace, and I work with your brain the way it is.

My psychotherapy practice operates entirely outside the traditional, pathologizing medical model. I don't look at a client and see a broken machine that needs to be fixed or a collection of symptoms to be eradicated. Instead, I approach the work with the understanding that feeling sad, angry, anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed is often a completely reasonable response to surviving under crushing systemic pressures. Since I anchor my practice in mad studies and disability justice, I don't view neurodivergence or disability as deficits, but as valid ways of existing that require a world — and a therapeutic space — willing to adapt to them, rather than the other way around.

When it comes to the actual modalities, I work with Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy, Disability-Affirmative Therapy, drama- and play-based approaches, and Narrative Therapy. Together they make room for the parts of a person that don't fit neatly into a treatment plan. My approach is "co-ripping": we rip up the damaging, pathologizing scripts we've been handed by society and collaboratively write truer, more expansive narratives. Because I work integratively, I'm not afraid to wade into the deep, murky waters of existential dread, meaning-making, and spiritual wounding the places that skills alone can't always reach. I hold space for the profound questions of what it actually means to be a human being, acknowledging that the search for meaning is just as critical to survival as symptom management.

I trained in a high-acuity, frontline hospital mental health and addiction setting. I am intimately familiar with the complex, heavy realities of chronic trauma, severe burnout, and addiction. I am a steady clinician who will sit with you when you bring your darkest, most painful, and chaotic realities into the room; I already know exactly how to sit steady in that dark.

I don't treat you like a broken machine that needs to be fixed. If you are feeling sad, angry, anxious, or overwhelmed, I believe that is a completely normal reaction to living in a stressful and unfair world. I do not see neurodivergence or disability as things that are "wrong" with you. They are simply different ways of being human, and therapy should adapt to you, rather than forcing you to adapt to it.

In our sessions, we will work together to tear up the harmful stories society has told you about who you are supposed to be. Coping skills can help, and we can use them. But we will also look at the bigger picture. I am not afraid to talk about the heavy stuff, like figuring out what it actually means to be alive and how to find a sense of purpose when things feel pointless.

I did my clinical training in intense, frontline hospital and addiction settings. Because of that, I am very familiar with chronic trauma, severe burnout, and addiction. You cannot scare me, and you will not be "too much" for me. Whatever dark, painful, or chaotic reality you are dealing with, I already know how to sit steady in the dark with you.