Hello! I am an LCSW with over 10 years of mental health experience in a variety of settings and levels of care. I am a natural and empathetic listener, and am able to deeply connect with and understand others. I hold space with reverence and respect for your trust and bravery in showing up, and respond with genuine understanding, intelligence, insight, acceptance, and compassion. I seek to join with clients to help them feel empowered to recognize and question patterns within their own lives, and to use skills and different perspectives to create lasting change where desired.
My innate abilities and broad background position me to see the many facets of individual issues and experiences, and how those may be impacted by larger forces and systems. My intelligence, gentleness, empathy, and work with our resilient LGBTQIA+ community, along with the intersections of my own identities, allow me to understand/relate to a diverse multitude of others naturally and empathetically.
My ideal client is one who may feel... lost, stuck, and desirous of change. My ideal client need not know what that change might look like; I can help with that. My ideal client need not be unafraid, as I believe I can help with that too. I value honesty, openness, curiosity, and willingness. I attempt to live by those values and appreciate them in others.