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Start your journey to psychological wellbeing today.
Having trouble with the form? Email [email protected].
“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?”
Are you struggling to feel safe, grounded and supported? Are feelings of grief, guilt, fear or self-loathing too heavy to bear? You might struggle to take up space, worried that others will see you as strange, broken or unlovable. Perhaps you’ve considered suicide when simply being in the world felt like too much. No matter the shape of your pain, you are welcome here.
In my practice, I support adolescents and adults of all neurotypes who struggle with acute and complex trauma, internalized shame, anxiety, depression, and chronic suicidality. I specialize in providing therapy for LGBTQ+ and autistic individuals from a person-centered, relational lens. I also enjoy working with the “extremely online” queer community, from TTRPG nerds and fandom folks to people with therian or furry identities.
I received my BA in Psychology from Macalester College and an MA in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. I then worked as a therapist in community mental health settings before returning to school and earning an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Northeastern Illinois University. In between, I spent several years tending to my own experience of so-called disability and mental illness, and I bring to my work a lived understanding of what it is to struggle with parts of one’s own mind.
As a queer, trans, Mad and autistic therapist, it is important to me that I stand for those whose identities are marginalized and oppressed. I believe in using my intersecting areas of privilege to advocate for meaningful change on behalf of the people and communities I work for. My hope is to offer counseling in a way that honors therapy’s roots in traditional healing practices and indigenous ways of knowing that predate and transcend Western medical models.
If all of that sounds like meaningless jargon—well, in a way, it kind of is. Degrees and philosophies aside, the best predictor of success in therapy is just finding a counselor you click with. If you want to talk for a bit and see if that’s me, I’d love to meet you.