Welcome

I know that choosing a therapist can be confusing and overwhelming, especially if you need to discuss vulnerable issues related to sexuality, gender, family, intimate partnership, depression, anxiety or trauma. I have a transparent, practical, calming, and down-to-earth style that is compassionate, socioculturally attuned and helps my clients feel understood and at ease. The commitment to psychotherapy can be both challenging and liberating. It takes courage to show up for this process of awareness and transformation. The aim is not perfection and doing it right, but to appreciate the ways in which you have continued to persist and fight for what you value and those you care about through all the messiness, conflict and struggle.

I am a licensed psychotherapist and a highly trained couples, family and relationship therapist, specializing in sexuality and gender identity issues across the continuum of sexual functioning and sexual orientation. I also have specialized skill in working with trauma, anxiety and depression through the use of multiple evidence-based and creative modalities including EMDR, IFS, CBT, ARA, Sex Therapy & many other treatment approaches fit to the needs of my clients. I can help couples and families resolve long-standing relationship problems and work with individuals to support them in places where they feel stuck and out of alignment with themselves. I believe in the liberation of people through witnessing their stories and feeling connected and known in their network of relationships. I assume people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them toward change.