Psychotherapy

Insight-oriented change.

I use trauma-centered relational, process-experiential, somatic and narrative approaches to help you explore your inner experience and relationships. I help connect that insight to broader patterns and dynamics in the world around you, and concrete steps you would like to take to shift these in your everyday life.

Practice-based Psychotherapy

The psychotherapy I practice helps you to explore your inner life and your relationships with others. It connects this insight to broader patterns and dynamics around you, and to concrete steps you would like to take to shift these in your everyday world. I work with you to (re)discover, experience and cultivate specific habits (or practices) of body, mind, and relationship to help with this.

Practices might enhance interoception or use of imagery and metaphor to access ‘right brain’ ways of knowing, mindful tracking of internal ‘voices’ or parts, relational mindfulness or present moment awareness of self and other, and more. They facilitate contact: they support you to safely access, feel and understand how various layers and aspects of you – such as your identities, moods, feelings, states of mind, or bodily impulses and experiences – encounter and respond to each other, and to the world around you.  

Contact works towards clarity: it orients you more fully and precisely to what is happening in the present moment, what you most need and want, and what is available within and right around you to help fulfill these. When difficulty arises, contact asks: “what is the medicine for this moment?”

Contact opens doors; it lights up old rooms and passageways within you. This makes it possible to see how one set of dynamics replicates and corresponds to many others across time, relationships and systems. It can show you new ways to connect intimately, empathically and ethically with others.

“What is the medicine for this moment?”

Experience

I am here to help you with:

  • Navigate identity, cultural belonging, relationship boundaries and expectations, as well as power, oppression, violence and survivorship as queer, trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, ace, neurodivergent, LGBT. disabled, Black, Indigenous and racialized people

  • Understand and shape how trauma in relationship, and trauma that echoes and reinforces systems of oppression, show up and influence the mind, emotions, experiences of the body and of self/others.

  • Understand and respond to how health issues show up and are treated in relationships, medical and other systems and institutions of care, including as older (40+) adults and caregivers

  • Soften the edges of traumatic grief. Create maps of meaning that can serve as blueprints to guide you safely through feeling, relational intricacies, changes in identity, belonging and direction in life that accompany loss and transition

  • Navigate changes in intimacy, how you find companionship, and relationship boundaries as you ride the waves of major life changes