Mental health care from a whole heart.
How I Can Help
Every person's path to healing looks different, which is why I offer a range of approaches — from body-based work to more focused support for trauma and OCD. Here's a closer look at how we might work together.
Learn More About My Approach
I love writing about this work: the body, trauma, healing, and everything in between. Follow my Substack to learn more.
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OCD has been at the center of my work since I became a therapist, and I also know it from the inside through my own lived experience. I’m trained in Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP), I-CBT, and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, and I love weaving these together with somatic-based approaches. My goal isn’t just to ease OCD symptoms today (though we will certainly do that), but to get to the heart of what keeps it going, so it stops being the default state your mind and body know to return to.
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Whether through EMDR, Hakomi, attachment-focused therapy, or relational approaches, I work to support you in finding safety again inside your own body and mind so that you can feel safe to have the deep connections you want to have with others. I support clients with single-event traumas as well as complex developmental trauma histories.
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Hakomi mindful somatic psychotherapy utilizes mindful states and somatic interventions to help you deeply experience your own inner world and the healing that can come from closely listening to the wisdom of the body. You can learn more about this approach to healing here.
Healing through connection
All too often, we’ve been deeply wounded by those closest to us. These wounds leave us feeling alone, afraid, unworthy, unlovable, and lost. Our brains try to make sense of the difficult experiences we’ve lived through—experiences that often lack sense. This leaves us with ways of reacting and interacting with our world that often just don’t work and keep us struck in cycles of pain.
We need relationships to heal. We need caring, safe relationships to help us unlearn the ways we’ve been conditioned to protect ourselves.
That’s where I hope to be helpful.
My hope is to be one of those safe places for you to be free to recalibrate your understanding of what it means to be vulnerable, open, and connected. Whether you’re struggling with the lasting impacts of trauma, OCD, difficulty making meaningful and lasting connections, or a general sense of fear and anxiety, my goal is to help you reconnect to yourself, develop a more compassionate relationship with your body and emotions, and become deeply connected.
Commitment to
Anti-Oppression
Mental health care is part of a historically problematic system and the diagnosing and treatment of mental health disorders continues to remain both in denial of cultural contexts that foster these disorders as well as the ways in which treatment is often available only to those who hold certain degrees of privilege. Here are a few ways I work to embrace anti-oppression in my work:
I honor your lived experience and the wisdom and expertise you hold in knowing yourself and what you need to heal. My hope is to help you come into deeper contact with this wisdom—not for me to be the one to impart the wisdom or expertise.
I acknowledge and reflect the ways in which our cultural context shapes mental health and presentations of disorders.
I am committed to doing the personal work of excavating harmful beliefs and patterns I’ve been taught as a person with various identities of privilege in order to avoid unintentional harm to clients. I regularly engage in education, training, and discussion around these issues.
I will remain open, curious, and receptive to feedback around any issues that show up in the therapeutic relationship and work to repair ruptures that occur in ways that are safe and honoring for clients.
I offer sliding scale fees that prioritize BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ folks in accessing these spots. I also accept insurance (PacificSource, Moda, Regence BCBS, and OHP CareOregon) to help increase access to mental health care.