a place to tend, heal, & explore together

As a crip dreamer and care worker, I am invested in collective care & healing practices that tend to our survival in late stage capitalism and empire.
This may include sitting amidst contradictions & complexities of existing in the current world; sustaining, resting, and building networks of support within and beyond therapy; building capacity for conflict, discomfort, & growth; and intertwining reclaimed stories & creative practices that care for our ruptures, wounds, and traumas.

As a non-hierarchial-as-possible therapist- I deeply value your agency, autonomy, and wisdom of your body-mind-spirit in this shared space. Sessions are often a non-linear, gently paced process. I may be a kind witness and offer a caring container, but my approach is never to “fix” you, but rather be a grounding, resourceful presence along your journey. I invite play, curiosity, and slowness in our explorations, and being open to co-defining what this work can look like together. I welcome non-traditional languages, rituals, and spiritual practices that resonate with you. I invite us to move at the speed of trust, with a commitment to co-hold your struggles, joys, messiness, and insights with an abundance of care.

My practice centers QTBIPOC / POGM; disabled / chronically ill; Mad, neurodivergent communities with complex trauma. I currently am focusing on teens / adolescents, alongside couples, families, and groups. I work with COVID cautious + realist folks; survivors; artists + care workers; plural folks; sex workers; polyamorous and kinky folks; multiply marginalized comrades; and folks seeking non-carceral care.

Currently welcoming + centering in my practice:

Teens & Adolescents

I support teens and youth with the following:

  • Anxiety, depression, stress, grief / loss

  • QT/BIPOC related issues and explorations

  • Disability and chronic illness

  • Highly sensitive bodyminds

  • Generational, cultural, and interpersonal
    tensions within the family

  • Navigating friendships and community

  • Resourcing and surviving life pressures and the current state of the world

Couples, Families, & Groups

I support couples, families, and groups with:

  • Communication skills somatic resourcing during conflict; rebuilding trust and repair

  • Navigating trauma wounds and triggers

  • Support with polyamory, relationship anarchy
    or related structural explorations

  • Covid cautious issues and navigating disability

  • Unpacking power and positionality

  • Moving through relational impasses

  • Shared life transitions

    • Internal Family Systems (parts work); Narrative; and Somatic work informed inquiries:

      • What are the parts (or living feelings) within ourselves that are asking for attention, protection, or support? How can we build rapport and understanding with our parts, and find reconciliation? What are the freeing possibilities when we are able to transform self judgment, repression, and shame?

      • What are the stories that we hold and carry with us? What stories are asking to be tended to, re-written, reclaimed? Where can autonomy, agency, and power be discovered?

      • When we’re exhausted and overwhelmed from re-telling our experiences- what wisdom can the body share? How can we start slowly shining light on the body’s yeses and no’s; resourcing the body with the collective bodies; and befriending the nervous system; and supporting with trauma integration)?

    • Humanistic, relational, expressive art / play, and integrative approaches:

      • Moving away from pathology and top-down ‘care’, I see the therapy relationship as a way to co-regulate, repair past relational wounds, and allowing for new, imperfect practices in a held container.

      • From collaging, digital live drawing, creative writing prompts, to any / all artistic mediums that you resonate with- there are so many ways that session can be a place to witness your creative processing (or make cathartic, felt art together with as little or as much guidance as desired).

      • I center non-Western, anti-institutional approaches, integrating both therapy practices and unorthodox explorations. I recognize that there is no one-size-fits-all for any modality, and offer space to see what resonates with you or not. Everything is an offering, and do my best to offer ongoing moments for your feedback and any desired shifts.

    • Anti-oppressive, Abolitionist, intersectional lens

    • Mad Liberation, and healing & disability justice praxis

    • Anarchist relational, political, and creative approaches

    • Self-reclaimed Chinese and Buddhist philosophies & practices

    • Short term, sliding scale sessions for work accommodation letters (i.e., for disability, COVID-19 remote work and safety, other access needs and support); ESA letters; gender affirming care letters

    • NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds)- letters are often used to gatekeep people from accessing crucial and life saving care, and should be affordable to anyone seeking them