Welcome…

Mental Healthcare with an emphasis on collaboration and collective transformation

My work is rooted in the belief that therapy is a collaborative and transformative process. I am dedicated to helping clients navigate the complexities of their struggles in connection to their communities. I support individual adults, adolescents, and relationships, by collaborating on how we can best meet your goals to live authentically and thrive. It’s my hope that through our work, you will find new pathways of resilience, freedom, growth, pleasure, balance, liberation and healing.

How I Can Help

  • Navigating Anxiety and Depression

  • Gender transition, letters of support and gender identity questions

  • Non-binary/genderqueer and gender-
    non-conforming concerns

  • Political/Climate Anxiety

  • Self-awareness

  • Personal growth

  • School and career navigation

  • Communication skills

  • Intersectional identity work

  • Building healthy relationships

  • Consensual non-monogamy, open and poly relationship dynamics

  • Challenging Family Dynamics

  • Navigating Neurodivergence

  • Phobias and Fears

  • Trauma Reprocessing

  • Internal Family Systems/Parts work

  • Personal/mental struggles with autoimmune disorders

  • Life transitions

  • Grief

  • Nervous system regulation skills

  • Disordered eating

  • Mind/body connection

  • Medical anxiety

A person centered approach

I work with people in a supportive and non-pathologizing way that centers experiences and the influence of identity on mental health. I work with people of all identities while holding empathy and awareness of the extra challenges that marginalized identities face.

I focus on working with those who struggle with anxiety, depression, navigating neurodiversity, trauma and difficult relationship dynamics. As a queer and trans identified therapist, my passion is on providing gender affirming, sex-positive, trauma informed and inclusive mental healthcare from a social justice framework.

Education and Experience

Saybrook University
MA in Counseling, Clinical Mental Health Counseling Specialization

Michigan State University
BA in Advertising

Pacific Pride Foundation
Clinical internship

  • Anti Racist Intervention Training

  • De-escalation Training

  • Gender affirming care and letter writing- Presenter

  • Humanizing the trans experience- Panelist/speaker

  • Intimacy from the inside out: Internal Family Systems relationship training

  • Internal Family Systems inner Circle Training

  • LGBTQAI+ Cultural Sensitivity Training

  • Queer Alliance Collective, Saybrook University- founder and board member

  • Suicide Prevention and Crisis Training-Trevor Project

  • Transgender Healthcare Advocacy Focus Group

  • Youth mentor and Chef for at-risk teen center

My history
and
what led me to support people

My path to offering support to others struggling with their mental health and wellness was a long journey that included lots of personal and professional movement. I grew up in Michigan, in a culture that suppressed, denied, and stigmatized mental health struggles. The culture praised hard work, pushing through mental struggles without support, and encouraging harmful coping practices. I spent time working in kitchens, playing sports and music, working in the music industry and participating in social justice movements.

Upon graduation from university, I spent time living in the Bay Area before moving to Seattle. In Seattle I found a love of local foods and developed working knowledge of food politics as well as the effects of stress, anxiety, and food and alcohol impact on mental health and wellness, while working as a chef.

I moved to Southern California in 2015 to assist my partner’s family of their farm. I continued work as a cook while promoting local food programs, food share programs, and farm to school initiatives. This work led me to a job as a youth mentor and chef at a teen center. At the center I also assisted with LGBTQ+ support and restorative justice groups.

After years of contemplating how I could best support and show up for my community, I decided to go back to school during the Covid lockdown. While attending Saybrook University for a master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, I co-founded and was a board member of a student organization for LGBTQ+ students. I also developed and facilitated a clinical gender affirming letter writing presentation for students and faculty. My pre-graduate clinical focus and experience was providing individual and group therapy at Pacific Pride Foundation in Santa Barbara.

Moving my clinical work to private practice allows me to focus on working from a person centered lens and offer continuous care. I have done training to be an IFS informed therapist, as well as IFIO relationship training. I am excited to offer in-person care in Ventura and Santa Barbara, as well as online anywhere in California.