Counseling

My Philosophy

You are the expert of your unique you-ness. My role is to help you access and tend to your emotional landscape, and in doing so, discover a deep, inherent sense of wholeness in yourself.

• I believe there is profound intelligence in the ways we've learned to navigate distress, trauma, and challenging circumstances

• I hold a deep commitment to the therapeutic relationship — a space of non-judgment and authenticity

• We are relational beings, and many of our wounds stem from relational experience — so relational experience is also where healing lives

How I Work

I do my best work when we slow all the way down — moving out of talking about your experience and into actually tending to it, moment to moment, in the body as much as the mind. In those moments, something begins to move on its own, and my role shifts from guiding to attuning: tracking closely enough to respond to what's unfolding, rather than directing where I think it should go.

What this looks like: spacious, attuned, unhurried — following your felt-sense experience rather than analyzing your history from a distance.

Initiation & Threshold

I hold a particular fascination with thresholds — the initiations that live quietly inside everyday life. The end of a relationship. A role you can no longer inhabit honestly. A version of yourself that must fall away so another can take its place. These passages rarely announce themselves. They feel like fire.

• I walk alongside you in the heat of it — not rushing you toward resolution

• I hold equal reverence for what comes after: integrating what the fire has done

• What got burned away. What got forged. — this integration work is often overlooked, and it's frequently where the initiation truly completes

Becoming

Many of the people I work with are stepping outside a role they were handed long ago — the good one, the fixer, the one who learned not to need much — and finding the courage to embody a more honest expression of who they are underneath it.

This is what "becoming" means to me: not the arrival of someone new, but a deepening into the wholeness that was already present. A movement from fear toward a felt, embodied trust in yourself.

Embodiment isn't a technique layered onto this work — it's the work itself. The aim isn't only to understand yourself differently, but to actually live, in your body, as the person you're becoming.

It is an honor to walk with you to your edges, to witness the deep wisdom in your system, and to support you on your journey to a deeper sense of embodiment.

Who I Work With

Grounded in Hakomi — a mindfulness-based, body-centered form of psychotherapy. Alongside traditional dialogue, I draw on a body-centered focus to explore your felt-sense experience. [Learn more about Hakomi →]

Areas of Focus

• Postpartum challenges

• Trauma and complex trauma

• Alternative family structures

• LGBTQ+, non-binary, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming individuals

Relational Work

• Ethical non-monogamy and polyamory

• Couples counseling

• Platonic relationships

Looking for couples sessions or a half-day intensive? [Visit Couples & Intensives →]

Supervision I also offer Individual and Group Supervision to LPC and LMFT Associates in Oregon.