Specialties:
- Adults, young adults, older teens (15+ up)
- Neurodiversity (e.g. autism and ADHD especially in women and nonbinary persons)
- Substance use disorders, addiction, and other levels of substance use concerns
- Supporting individualized long term recovery
- Coping with chronic physical illness
- Depression and mood disorders
- Anxiety and adjustment challenges
- Navigating young adult/parent relationship boundaries
Communities served:
While I welcome clients of all identities, I have particular expertise and connection with persons belonging to the following communities/identities.
- Neurodiverse
- Chronically ill (“spoonies”)
- Lesbian and gay
- Bisexual and pansexual
- Transgender, genderfluid, non-binary, gender non conforming and genderqueer
- Asexual and aromantic
- Questioning and queer
- Consensually non-monogamous and polyamorous
- Kink-aligned
Therapeutic skills:
Therapy has to be personalized to be really effective–I draw on many years’ experience to select in-session skills and teach out-of-session coping strategies to help you feel better as soon as we can manage and to keep feeling better long-term.
- Cognitive and behavioral therapies (CBT)
- Mindfulness
- Harm reduction
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
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