My therapeutic approach is person-centered, which means I prioritize creating a safe, empathetic, and non-judgmental space where you are fully seen and heard. I believe you are the expert on your own life and are fundamentally whole already. My role is to offer tools and guidance that help you reconnect with your lived experience, your body’s wisdom, and your mind’s innate capacity for healing. I also believe that laughter and playfulness are healing medicine, allowing us to not take this strange reality—and our “selves”—too seriously. Alongside working through the tough stuff, we laugh... a lot.

In my work, I integrate mindfulness-based, cognitive, and somatic practices, drawn from a rigorous 3-year course of Dharma study with an ordained teacher, during which I received direct transmission of teachings across multiple Buddhist traditions. You can read more about that study period here.

As an artist, I’m deeply familiar with the healing power of expressive arts to move through difficult emotions in an embodied way. If you’d like to integrate your own expressive arts practice—whether writing, visual arts, poetry, movement, or music—into our work together, I’d be happy to support that. No prior experience or skill is necessary. In the office, I always keep art supplies on hand for exploring, expressing, and processing those things which are difficult to verbalize.

I draw on Hakomi Method-informed practices, which focus on the body’s role in healing, as well as skills training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), a skill-based approach founded by Zen Master Marsha Linehan. I have also received foundational and advanced training in Flash Technique, a trauma treatment approach that uses bilateral stimulation (such as left-right tapping) to help clients process traumatic memories more rapidly and with less emotional distress than other trauma treatments. This method facilitates the reprocessing of memories, reducing their emotional charge and helping clients feel less distressed when recalling traumatic events.

I am deeply committed to creating an inclusive, affirming space for people of all identities. I welcome and support individuals from LGBTQIA+ communities, consensually non-monogamous relationships, and people of diverse racial, ethnic, and spiritual backgrounds. I believe in honoring the unique experiences of each individual and providing a space where all beings are respected and celebrated.