“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 & Sensate Focus
Systemic Therapy
Collaborative Language Systems
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Feminist Family Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
The Wheel of Consent
Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Specialties
Sex Therapy:
Sexual & relational (attachment) trauma
Sexual functioning & sex anxiety
Sensate Focus for all bodies
Compulsive sexual behaviors
Relationship Orientations & Agreements:
Poly/Non-monogamy, especially couples & partners opening up their relationship
Consent issues & sexual/intimate boundary violations
Sex & Gender Expansive People:
Kinksters, BDSM & Fetishes
Sex workers
Queer & Trans wellbeing
Gender & sexual orientation transitions (coming out, social transitions)
Gender-Affirming Care
Other Topics:
Ecological anxiety & existential dread
Political oppression & anguish
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 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 & relational trauma. My specialization as a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP) allows me to merge language-based therapy with somatic approaches. 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, decolonial work, and the queer & mad rights movements.
Apart from the therapy world, I am a musician, a TTRPGer, a collage artist & crafty queer, generally a fan of being outside (but not sports)— and, perhaps most of all, a co-parent of one very perfect cat (see below) named Rhea.
