I believe meaningful therapy begins with feeling seen, understood, and accepted. My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and eclectic, shaped around who you are, what you've experienced, and what you're hoping to find in this work together.
There's no one-size-fits-all formula for feeling better, and I don't believe you need someone to tell you who to be. I see therapy as a space to slow down, get curious, and begin making sense of the patterns, relationships, and experiences that have shaped you. Together, we can explore the parts of yourself you've learned to hide, the ways you've learned to show up for others at the expense of yourself, and the things that make it difficult to feel at home in your own life.
My hope is to offer a space where you can let your guard down, reconnect with your own inner voice, and develop a deeper sense of compassion for yourself. Not because you're broken or need fixing, but because you deserve a relationship with yourself that feels as honest, accepting, and nourishing as the ones you want to have with others.
Queer and Trans-Affirming Therapy in California
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have … an understanding of life that fills them with compassion … a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
My Services
Individuals
I don't see myself as the expert on your life. You are. My role isn't to hand you answers or tell you who you should be. It's to walk alongside you, ask thoughtful questions, get curious about the things that make you who you are, and help you hear your own voice a little more clearly.
Therapy can be challenging. It can bring us face-to-face with old wounds, uncomfortable truths, and patterns we've spent years trying to understand. But it can also be surprising, creative, funny, and even a little liberating. There's room for all of it. I believe some of the most meaningful work happens when we can approach ourselves with curiosity rather than judgment, and compassion rather than shame.
My hope is that therapy becomes a place where you can let go of some of the expectations you've carried, explore the parts of yourself that haven't always had room to exist, and begin building a life and relationships that feel more genuinely your own.
Couples & Relationships
In couples and relationship therapy, I’m not here to referee, take sides, or decide who’s right. What we work on is the relationship itself: the space between you, and the patterns that keep showing up there. Together we’ll slow things down enough to see what’s really happening when you get stuck. That means the old protective moves, the needs that come out sideways, and the fights that are never really about the dishes.
I work with relationships of all shapes, online throughout California: queer and trans partnerships, polyamorous and ENM relationships, and people still figuring out what they want their relationship to be. You don’t have to explain or justify your structure here.
This work can be uncomfortable. It asks each of you to get curious about your own part and to hear things that are hard to hear. It can also be tender, surprisingly funny, and a real relief. My hope is that you leave with more understanding than blame, and with a relationship you’ve built together, on purpose.
Other specialties and areas of focus include:
Masculinities
Creative confidence and identity
Trauma
Polyamory/ENM
ADHD/Autism/Neurodiversity
Anxiety/Social Anxiety
People pleasing/codependency
Depression
Self-worth and shame
Identity exploration
Gender and sexuality
Perfectionism
Radical Body Acceptance/Body Neutrality
Boundaries and communication
Family dynamics
Existential questions and purpose