The Why of The Space I Offer
About Me
Healing is deeply personal. It unfolds through relationships that foster safety, curiosity, authenticity, and genuine human connection. My hope is to offer a space where every part of your experience is welcome—your emotions, your body, your story, your identities, and the ways you've learned to survive.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in somatic trauma therapy, somatic trauma sex therapy, complex trauma (C-PTSD), attachment and relational healing, chronic illness, neurodivergence, and LGBTQIA+ affirming care. My work integrates Virginia Satir's Experiential Therapy, somatic and nervous system-informed approaches, attachment theory, and relational psychotherapy to support healing that is compassionate, collaborative, and deeply embodied.
I believe healing is not about fixing what is "wrong" with you. It is about reconnecting with the parts of yourself that adapted in order to survive and creating opportunities for greater choice, self-trust, congruence, and connection.
Why This Work Matters to Me
Like many of my clients, I bring both professional training and lived experience into the therapy room.
I am openly neurodivergent and disabled. I live with ADHD, Complex PTSD (C-PTSD), hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS), Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), and other chronic health conditions that shape my daily life.
Living with multiple disabilities has taught me that healing is rarely linear. It has shown me the profound impact that chronic illness, pain, trauma, sensory overwhelm, grief, medical trauma, identity shifts, and nervous system dysregulation can have on every aspect of life—including relationships, sexuality, self-esteem, and our sense of belonging.
These experiences do not make me an expert on your life. You are always the expert on your own body and your own story.
What my lived experience offers is an appreciation for the complexity of navigating systems that are not always designed with disabled, chronically ill, or neurodivergent people in mind. It allows me to approach therapy with humility, compassion, curiosity, and a deep respect for the many ways people adapt in order to survive.
An LGBTQIA+ Affirming Practice
As a queer therapist, I know how meaningful it can be to enter a space where you do not have to explain or defend your identity before healing can begin.
My practice is intentionally affirming of LGBTQIA+, queer, transgender, nonbinary, gender-diverse, asexual, aromantic, bisexual, pansexual, and questioning individuals. I also welcome people exploring relationship diversity, consensual non-monogamy, kink, and other forms of authentic relational expression from a sex-positive, trauma-informed perspective.
You deserve therapy where your identities are respected, your relationships are not pathologized, and your experiences are met with curiosity rather than assumptions.
My Philosophy
Virginia Satir believed that every person possesses an innate capacity for growth and healing. I hold that same belief.
Many of the struggles we experience—whether related to trauma, sexuality, chronic illness, neurodivergence, or relationships—are not evidence that we are broken. They are often understandable adaptations to environments, experiences, and circumstances that required us to survive.
Somatic therapy recognizes that our bodies carry wisdom as well as pain. The nervous system remembers not only danger but also safety, connection, and possibility.
Rather than asking you to override your body's signals or become someone different, I hope to help you develop a more compassionate relationship with yourself while expanding your capacity for regulation, authenticity, pleasure, intimacy, and meaningful connection.
Our work is collaborative. We move at the pace of your nervous system, honoring your autonomy and your lived experience every step of the way.
My Clinical Approach
My work integrates:
Virginia Satir's Experiential Therapy
Somatic Trauma Therapy
Somatic Trauma Sex Therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy
Nervous System Regulation
Polyvagal-informed principles
Neurodiversity-affirming care
Disability-affirming care
LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy
Relational and experiential psychotherapy
Whether you are navigating complex trauma, intimacy concerns, chronic illness, disability, neurodivergence, relationship challenges, or identity exploration, therapy offers an opportunity to reconnect with yourself in ways that feel authentic, embodied, and sustainable.
You're Welcome Here
Whether you are seeking therapy because of trauma, chronic illness, disability, neurodivergence, sexuality, identity, or simply because life feels overwhelming, you do not have to navigate it alone.
My office is intended to be a place where all parts of you are welcome—where your nervous system does not have to perform, where your identities are honored, where your body is listened to with respect, and where healing unfolds through authentic human connection.
I would be honored to walk alongside you as you discover new possibilities for safety, self-trust, resilience, and belonging.
