Identity-affirming, trauma-informed therapy

For Life’s Tender and Tangled Moments

Each issue offers insights from therapy, creative practice, and everyday moments that shape us. Plus tools and reflections to support you with subtle shifts in between sessions.

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Welcome

This isn’t a space that asks you to be okay.
This is a space that meets you where you are. Bring your stories. The messy, sacred, complicated ones. We’ll listen. We’ll move gently. And when you’re ready, we’ll begin to untangle the knots together. Grounded in Feminist Multicultural Therapy, I practice trauma-informed, culturally attuned, identity-affirming care for those navigating anxiety, life transitions, relationships, and belonging.

What We Might Work On Together

Every story is different. Here are a few things clients often bring into the room.

Anxiety

Racing thoughts. Tension in your chest. That feeling like you can never quite exhale. We’ll slow things down and build tools that help your body and mind feel safer. Bit by bit.

Depression

You’re tired, even when you’re rested. Everything feels heavier than it should. Together, we’ll name what’s happening underneath and find ways to reconnect with yourself.

Life Transitions

Big changes can bring up old patterns, new fears, and questions about who you are becoming. Together, we’ll sort through the noise and tune back in to your values, needs, and next steps.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Rumi
13th century poet & sufi mystic

Modalities

What I Tend To
Bring Into Sessions

Rooted in cultural humility and relational justice, FMT centers empowerment, consent, and the sociopolitical context of each client’s lived experience. It honors the wisdom you carry and the intersecting identities that shape your healing.

IFS invites us to explore and care for the many “parts” within us without judgment. With curiosity and compassion, we create space for healing old wounds, softening protective strategies, and cultivating inner harmony.

EFT supports emotional attunement, secure connection, and relational healing. Whether working with individuals or couples, this approach helps you identify and shift core emotional patterns that shape how you relate to yourself and others.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to explore how our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact—especially when patterns of self-doubt, worry, or overwhelm arise. When emotions feel intense or difficult to manage, we might tap into Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which offer tools for grounding, emotion regulation, setting boundaries, and improving relationships. Together, these approaches support both insight and action, helping you feel more resourced in the moment, more connected to “self-energy,” and overall present in life.

ACT helps us soften the grip of self-judgment, reconnect with values, and move toward what matters, even when it’s hard. Through mindfulness and self-compassion, we build psychological flexibility and create space for growth.

Somatic work bridges the wisdom of the body with the stories we carry. Using mind-body bridging and gentle nervous system techniques, we restore regulation, deepen self-awareness, and support trauma recovery from the inside out.

Mindfulness helps us return to the present moment, especially when life feels overwhelming. We use grounding practices to anchor awareness, strengthen emotional resilience, and reconnect with your inner capacity for change.

Who I Help

I work with individuals, couples, and families moving through layered challenges like identity crisis, reationship rupture, and family discord.

INDIVIDUALS

Depressed exhausted teen girl petting cat sitting on couch at home. Mental problem, pet therapy.

COUPLES

Sad homosexual gay couple arguing in bedroom at home

FAMILIES

Angry mother screaming at father during family therapy session

Special Area of Focus

Perinatal Mental Health

Pregnancy tests, baby clothes, pills and ultrasound scan on the

This season can feel tender, overwhelming, and full of questions. Whether you’re navigating fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, or loss, you don’t have to do it alone. We’ll hold space for your changing body, identity, and relationships with care that’s culturally responsive and emotionally grounded.

Woman standing with colorful umbrella on the pier at the pond on a rainy day

Between stillness and movement, there is meaning.

If this way of working resonates, let’s talk.

I am here for you.
Ready whenever you are.

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