Queer therapy acknowledges and celebrates the diverse experiences and identities within the LGBTQ+ community, while also recognizing the unique challenges they may face due to societal stigma and discrimination. It provides a safe and non-judgmental space for people to explore their identities, relationships, and personal struggles. By establishing a trusting therapeutic alliance, I help individuals navigate the complex intersections of gender, sexuality, and mental health. With a focus on validation, support, and empowerment, queer therapy not only facilitates personal growth and self-acceptance but also fosters resilience and strength within the queer community.

Sex therapy primarily focuses on themes of sexual intimacy, sexual identity, and relationship with sexuality and embodiment. This therapy can be done within the context of a relationship, and it is also often done individually. (It is not necessary to be in a relationship or even sexually active to seek sex therapy!)

Common reasons (though not an all-inclusive list!) to seek sex therapy:

-Improving sexual pleasure

-Desire discrepancy (one partner desiring sex more than another does)

-Relationship conflict and communication

-Sexual trauma

-Exploration of gender, sexuality, and sexual identity

-Non-monogamy

-Overcoming shame, fears, and/or insecurities related to sex and sexuality

Relationship therapy can support partners in navigating challenges and increase emotional and romantic intimacy. My approach goes beyond simply addressing surface-level conflicts to uncover and heal the deep-seated emotional wounds that often underlie relationship struggles. By building secure attachment bonds, relationship therapy helps create lasting change, promoting a sense of safety, closeness, and connection in relationships.

I am committed to honoring how intersecting layers of identity and structural oppression impact relationship dynamics. Together we will explore patterns of conflict and disconnection, and unpack how past experiences, relationships, and trauma may be influencing relational patterns.

Often referred to as “parts work,” IFS is a therapy model that recognizes and acknowledges that people have different parts of themselves with unique thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. Some parts may hold trauma, while others try to protect the individual. Instead of seeing these parts as problems to be fixed, IFS encourages understanding and nurturing them. By compassionately exploring and talking to these parts, individuals can become more self-aware and self-compassionate, and can ultimately heal emotional wounds. IFS helps people integrate these parts for a greater sense of peace and well-being.

Given ongoing policymaking and rhetoric that affect trans people in particular, you deserve a therapist who not only believes you are who you say you are, but truly respects and honors that sense of self. I am committed to providing affirming mental health care to transgender and gender-expansive people, as guided by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Together we might focus on experiences of gender dysphoria, marginalization, or trauma. We will also focus on building self-awareness, self-compassion, resiliency, and joy through a trans-affirming framework.

Modern psychodynamic theory supports clients in connecting with and making sense of how past experiences impact current behaviors, habits, and patterns. Drawing from an anti-racist and feminist lens, we will also consider the impact of systemic oppression. Healing happens through expressing, exploring, and processing past experiences, in order to establish healthier habits and patterns, greater self-compassion, and increased capacity for authentic and secure connection with others.