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About My Clients
Have you spent a life time struggling to fit in or drown out the voice in your head that points out you are different? I am intimately familiar with this feeling and how noisy social pressures can be. Society too often tells queer and neurodivergent folks that the best life has to offer is simply survival. Finding ways to break out of the stigmatizing expectations of mainstream culture and learning to embrace and nurture your true self can guide you away from survival to allow you to thrive.
My Background and Approach
I am first and foremost a relational therapist that means that all of the work I do comes from building an individual relationship and approach to each client that I work with. I bring my personal experience and humor into my work and am not everyone's cup of tea. Mental health treatment in this country has a long legacy of working to maintain the racist and ableist statis quo and I am actively working to make sure I am not functioning in that capacity. In addition to bringing experience and philosophy I also use a variety of tools from different research based therapeutic modalities including Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Somatic Therapy, and Trauma Systems Therapy. I think It important to hit the ground running and work together with my clients to directly address the distress of the current moment but build long term skills and insight to improve life in the long term.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I know that the work of self discovery and improvement is the work of a whole lifetime as someone who has identified as queer since I was 16 but only discovered their autism at age 30. Human beings have infinite capacity to grow, change and improve and the best part of my job is getting to watch and support people on this journey. As an optimistic realist I know and fight against the the many ways that American Capitalism attempts to individualize and pathologize our mental health struggles to make the person the problem while never acknowledging that society is the thing making the person the problem. Lastly as an active fat positive activist I do draw boundaries around the way weight loss is discussed in my practice if that is an area you are looking for support please seek that elsewhere.