With years of experience facilitating individual and group psychotherapy, workshops, supervision, consultation, community leadership, and writing, I am a Certified Internal Family Systems therapist living in Seattle, Washington. I offer in-person and Telehealth psychotherapy, LMHCA supervision, training, and consultation to to residents of Washington state. My office is located in the Licton Springs neighborhood of north Seattle.
I know that deep, profound personal change is possible through a strong, safe, trusting therapeutic relationship. I offer warm, curious, nonjudgmental presence and support to you in becoming calm and grounded with your distress, fostering your own curiosity about yourself, and realizing your for aliveness, power, connection, and integrity.
My focus of work is around issues of loneliness, guilt, boundaries, and accountability, with particular interest in working with:
- Those who are the “rocks” in their families, communities, or places of work, upon whom so many depend, whose responsibility for others makes prioritizing your own needs challenging and terrifying.
- Those who are burdened with guilt, either for crime or harm perpetuated against another, or guilt that keeps one from prioritizing one’s own needs.
I affirm the innate dignity of all people. Each of us contains a universe of depths, mysteries, wounds, gifts, and spiritual purpose. When we experience harm, or the threat of harm, we learn to protect ourselves and advance our needs through skills that both serve us and begin to limit us as we grow into our own power. Healing involves confronting those behaviors with care and understanding while coming into dignity, power, and self-respect. All of us have experienced disempowerment, if only as children, and many of us struggle to recognize the power we have, and accept accountability for it.
I affirm our innate right to determine our sexual, romantic, and gender identities; to choose the relationships that affirm us; and to explore our sexuality, romantic love, and friendship needs through consensual, loving, conscious, and mature connections. We have an innate right to autonomy in living the gender identity and embodiment that is congruent with our experience of self.