Welcome
In my work as a therapist, I rely on compassion, creativity, curiosity, honesty, patience, kindness, and humor.
About Me
I am the youngest child of six, and according to my mother I was not a mistake but a surprise. Being five years younger (or more) than my five siblings, I would say that my first training as a therapist was an extended immersion into family systems work.
For most of my adult life I have also immersed myself in working with collectives. For more than thirty years I’ve honed skills essential to being a therapist, working as part of a non-hierarchical collective management group. Hiring work there has taught me to lean into the process of interviewing with respect and openness. Group facilitation and self-facilitation have taught me the value of the give-and-take of rapport and how to hear clearly and fully a view that is not my own. With as many as 85 co-collective members I’m learned a lot about how to stay present in the moment and regulate my emotional reactivity. Decades of providing customer service in an environment that has allowed me to be myself have taught me the value of affording others unconditional positive regard, which for me is the foundation of any therapeutic relationship. And because this workplace has long valued social justice, I have been given extensive anti-oppression skills training, and ample opportunities to practice those skills.
In addition to all that I am a parent, I am queer, and I am a drummer.
In 2018 I received a masters degree in counseling from the LIOS program at Saybrook University. I have been practicing as a therapist ever since in both group and private practice. I have worked with clients as young as five and as old as 80. I am most experienced working with anxiety, trauma and depression. The therapy models I feel most versed working with are: Internal Family Systems (IFS), Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Depth Work, Structural Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy. During sessions I am fond of using: humor, warmth, mindfulness, connectedness, honesty and the element of cognitive surprise. I feel a deep sense of gratitude for every time I have met with or will meet every client, and for all these meetings have taught or will teach me. Which is in part to say, I look for to meeting you.