Compassionate, experienced, and ready
to help in your moment of need.

Welcome! I'm glad you're here.

I help children, teens, adults, families, and couples get through tough times, navigate complex problems & feel (and do) better.

 
Psychotherapy Services
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I’m a proud clinical social worker!

What inspires me most? My profession’s enduring mission to advocate for those who are vulnerable and marginalized and, in so doing, to create a just, equitable, and loving world for all.

My Core Values

AUTONOMY,
as in you’re in charge.

Autonomy is the capacity to make informed and uncoerced decisions, like coming to psychotherapy and sharing yourself, perhaps your most private self. Starting therapy earns my respect, full stop. But it encompasses a lot more, like respecting your lived experiences and your right to perceive the world, yourself, and even me through the lens of those experiences. I firmly support your core worth, right to make your own choices and, ultimately, to author your own story.

My goal is not for you to please me, rather it is for me to help you feel safe enough to risk being fully yourself.

I also want your needs to direct your therapy, be that what you work on, what strategies I use to help you, how I could be doing better, how often you have sessions, and how long you stay. Your voice is your power and I’m all ears!


CONNECTION,
as in relationships are vital.

For psychotherapy to work, there must be a foundation of trust between us so our therapeutic relationship can become the vehicle for change. I cultivate trust with resolute non-judgment, compassion, curiosity, and clear boundaries. If we’re successful in building that foundation, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to say what you haven’t said before, experience previously buried feelings, or express your deepest needs. Then you’re not alone with it all.

Moments of true connection power the healing process like nothing else. This is what I aim for and what research says underlies all successful therapy, regardless of clinical modality.

I am also a vigorous advocate for you to seek, be in, and sustain connection with other people. As tricky as many relationships can be, they’re foundational to physical and mental health and what creates well-being, purpose, and a chance at happiness. I’ll help you clear up what might be in the way of finding and sustaining healthy and nourishing relationships.


INTEGRITY,
or how I do my part.

Psychotherapy requires time, money, and the willingness to be vulnerable. I believe I have to do my part if you are going to get a return on your investment. My part includes, most fundamentally, active and consistent participation in clinical trainings and lots of supervision and consultation. I’m also committed to healthy self-care to keep the instrument of myself well-tuned so that I can be of good use to you.

Practicing with integrity also means understanding your difficulties through a lens than encompasses the larger forces that effect human well-being, like the impact of prejudice and discrimination as well as individual and collective trauma. I stand firmly against white supremacy culture and LGBTQ oppression and speak and act in ways that promote justice for all, while continuously examining and correcting for my own biases.

I acknowledge societal inequities and the profound psychological impact it has on all those whose identities are oppressed, dehumanized, and vilified.

Last but not least, I am guided by the ethical principles and standards that form the core of the social work profession as delineated in the NASW Code of Ethics. These ethics inform every aspect of my practice, from the policies and procedures that govern how I interface with you as a client to my commitment to treating you with dignity and respect.

 

 You are not alone.