“See, this is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you’re doing in the here and now—and instead of calling it work, realize that this is play.”
—Alan Watts
Education
Capella University, 2023 — Masters of Science (MS) in Marriage & Family Therapy
University of Colorado at Boulder, 2019 — Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History, Minor in Creative Writing
Additional Certifications & Memberships
Evergreen Certifications, 2025 — Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP)
Delta Kappa (International Marriage and Family Therapy Honor Society)
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT)
American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT)
Currently in-training to become a Certified Sex Therapist (CST), expected 2027
Therapeutic Philosophies, Modalities & Tools
Internal Family Systems (IFS; aka “parts work”)
Somatic Therapy & Polyvagal Theory
Systemic Family Therapy
Collaborative Therapy (Collaborative Language Systems)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Feminist Therapy
Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
The Wheel of Consent
Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Specialties
Working through sexual trauma
Relational/betrayal trauma, attachment wounds
Couples & partners who are opening up their relationship (often after one member of a monogamous couple comes out as polyamorous)
Partners who have practiced polyamory/NM
Relationship anarchists
Kinksters, BDSM & Fetishes
Sex workers
Gender & sexual orientation transitions/coming outs (socially, medically)
Consent issues & sexual/intimate boundary violations (perpetration, victimization)
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV, also called Domestic Violence/DV)
Compulsive sexual behaviors
Relationship OCD
Some People Whose Work Inspires Me
Resmaa Menakem (Cultural Somatics & Somatic Abolitionism)
Derek Scott (RIP)
Dr. Jennifer Mullan
Jacque Lacan
Harry J. Aponte
Alan Watts
Chen Chen
Ocean Vuong
Mary Oliver
No Mas Muertes
It is your right as a human being to have fruitful, loving, and supportive relationships, with others as well as yourself. Most of my clients start therapy with me because they know, at a deep level, the changes they need to embrace, but need help from someone caring and trustworthy to make those changes safe and real.
I work with new clients to understand what they need to feel safe enough to try new things, and make evidence-based, creative suggestions that reflect the authenticity of each person. I meet with people who are struggling to reconcile their sexual, emotional, and philosophical differences in relationship, and help to restore trust, intimacy, and collaboration to their partnerships.
I specialize in working with mono-poly relationships, sexual & gender minority experiences, and relational minority (poly, CNM/ENM, open+) transitions. As someone who has had to go through the intense process of questioning & accepting my own needs, as well as my gender, sexual & relationship orientations, I understand what an exhausting, confusing process it can be. I want to be there for you in that work!
Additionally, I specialize in incorporating somatic & language-based therapeutic interventions in working with sexual trauma & relational trauma. My specialization as a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP) allows me to merge language-based therapy with somatic approaches and techniques. It is a huge passion of mine to engage clients in a therapeutic process that allows them to reengage curiosity and openness with their bodies, and that liberates them from compulsivity or draining, exhausting nervous system responses.
I work with models of therapy that can feel “uncomfy” to clients for the first few minutes of trying them on, but quickly become ways of facing and moving through conflicts, confusions, and unhealed moments. I value anti-carceral mental health approaches, anti-racist work, decoloniality, and the queer & mad rights movements.
Apart from the therapy world, I am a musician, a table top roleplayer, an organizational creative, a collage artist — and, perhaps most of all, a
co-parent of one very perfect cat named Rhea.
