Perhaps the anxiety you feel is important data, informing you that something in your life is out of balance. Or maybe anxiety is simply getting in your way and needlessly preventing you from pursuing joy and purpose. Either way, therapy can help you to move forward. Work with me to develop insight about the root causes of anxiety, interrupt distorted thought patterns rooted in anxiety, and establish important boundaries to help reduce anxiety.

Depression can feel like a bully, preying on your insecurities and breaking down your confidence. It can feel like a monster, lurking around shadowy corners, ready to pounce the moment you feel safe. It can feel like a parasite, growing larger and stronger inside you as it demands to be fed isolation, withdrawal, and self-loathing. You need help to banish depression and to keep it at bay. In therapy, I will help you to identify and break depressant behavior cycles which have allowed depression to flourish in your life. Together, we will create new behaviors that enhance self-compassion, self-forgiveness, connection to community, and connection to your purpose and values.

Loving relationships are core to human nature as we understand it, and the vast majority of us are deeply interested in finding and maintaining connection to others. However, you may find that unresolved past hurts are preventing you from confidently giving and receiving love. Past experiences and relationships may have taught you lessons that simply don’t serve you any longer. Work with me to explore how current relational patterns have you reliving the past instead of creating your future.

Whether the trauma you are carrying comes from an acute but profound stressor or from a lifetime of daily stress, you deserve care and support as you heal. I will help you to verbally process the traumatic experiences of your past and present to close the narrative gaps that trauma has left in your life. Equipped with a cohesive narrative and a sense of meaning, you can take ownership over the way you love, work, and live.

Work with me to explore your gender identity – how it works, how it feels, and what it means to you. I believe strongly in pursuing authentic expression of gender and self in the face of social constraints. This is hard work, fraught with risk and often frightening. Together, we will find ways to honor the part of you that protects and the part of you that explores. Each step you take toward authenticity will bring you closer to belonging and acceptance.

Exploration of sexual identity in therapy can open the door to self-discovery, self-affirmation, and self-acceptance. Using an intersectional lens, we can begin to make sense of how your sexual identity has shaped your lived experience and attend to the ways in which societal constraints have limited your freedom. I will work with you to develop your vision of an empowered, liberated, unashamed, and unapologetic life.

Therapy is an indispensable resource in the complex and sometimes painful work of examining and managing the impact of white supremacy on your lived experience. You will find me to be a warm, encouraging, and fearless partner in this work. I bring to you a perspective rooted in intersectionality and queer theory, while I remain primarily interested in your unique experience with racial identity. Together, we can develop strategies to mobilize your resources in pursuit of autonomy, self-love, and community.

No matter what addictive force is impacting your life, you can begin to manage your relationship to it. Work with me to develop strategies for reducing the harm caused by addictions. I will help you to establish boundaries with yourself and others, acquaint yourself with the emotional needs served by the addictive force, and enhance support that can help you to move forward.

Our society makes it extremely difficult–perhaps impossible–to grow up with healthy relationships to our bodies and to food. It requires hard work and support to explore and repair these relationships in pursuit of balance and moderation. I will join you in evaluating the obstacles to nourishment so that you can better partner with your body and feed yourself well.