If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

While psychotherapy is most certainly a science, with many years of research and practice to sustain it, therapy is also a healing art. It is, at times, mysterious, magical, unexplainable, and entirely a felt sensation. As an artist first, and a therapist second, I see my work with you as a great art project - a process of deep transformation. We will work together to source your inner Creator (who is often your inner child!), to help you heal and create sustainable cycles of change. Healing, like art, is often messy, sometimes difficult, and always worth the process to bring beauty, pleasure and new life.

I welcome people from any background and intersectionality to inquire. And, as a queer, non-binary identified therapist, I seek to center my work on empowering and supporting people in the LGBTQIA+ community. Whether directly or indirectly through my practice, I work to uplift and center the empowerment of queer, trans*, Black, Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC); immigrants; sex workers; folx with different physical and neurological abilities; survivors of abuse; folx experiencing economic oppression, homelessness, systems-involvement, police violence, education system, community violence, intimate partner violence, etc. Whatever your experiences, I seek to help you heal, so that you can, in turn, help others to heal - using your healing to create social change and foster justice.

I am an abolitionist therapist. By this I mean that I am committed to a practice of abolishing systems of abuse, violence, forced and free labor, and carceral/punitive punishment both in our collective (police, prisons, laws, etc.) and in our communities (relationships, sex, healthcare, money, etc.). In order to re-imagine our systems, I believe it is necessary to release ourselves from dependence on them by leaning away from the established institutions of policing, prisons, laws and the patholigization of our health and wellness. This doesn't mean that we won't need to access support and resources from the established systems from time to time (i.e. diagnosis, medication, affirming healthcare), AND it means that we will have to look inward to our innate healing capacities, to our community strengths and resources, and use our imaginations to find true healing. If we want to live in a healed world, we have to start living into our imaginations and create new/reclaim Indigenous models of care. This starts with us as individuals as we heal.

As such, I espouse models of community care and mutual aid that will help us lean into practices like transformative and restorative justice, healing justice, disability justice, harm reduction, radical self-love, sex and body autonomy, free healthcare, universal basic income, housing as a human right, among others. These frameworks help to root my practice and guide my ethics. 

This also means that I will do my best to help guide you away from diagnoses and psychotropic medications (within reason), and towards more holistic, spiritual, healing arts and community care practices.

Our radical imagination is as much a healing medicine as anything we've learned so far.

“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

-Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher, speaker and writer:

I take a strengths-based approach where I see each individual as the expert on their own experience, a complex and unique person, in relationship with others, and as a participant in larger systems. In all of our current systems, structures and institutions, built on oppression of and violence towards the bodies and stories of QTBIPOC folx, many of us find ourselves in a place of dis-ease and trauma where we are blamed or “pathologized” for our understandable reactions to the unreasonable, violent and abusive systems of racism, ableism, white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism and ongoing colonization. I seek to empower the strengths and resiliencies in you, while creating space for the difficult stories in you.

"Healing costs. Time. Energy. Ego. Relationships. Money. When you are ready for a shift, put everything on the table. Change isn't cheap, but holding out on yourself costs more than you can give." 

-Chani Nicholas (she/her), astrologer, writer

Healing is hard. While the payoff is immeasurable, the healing cycle often involves going back to "touch with love, that which was previously touched by fear." (Stephen Levine) I see myself as a sort of midwife to your pain, hurt, fear and suffering, as well as your joy, pleasure, resilience and right relationship. Sorrow and joy are two sides of the same circle, and I am focused on helping you develop and sustain a healing practice that will help you tend to your whole self. Healing is for everyone.

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

-Albert Camus, writer

I believe one of the pillars of healing is liberation from oppressive forces and cycles of trauma. By developing empathy, compassion, love, and worth for our own body and experience, we begin to liberate ourselves from the narratives that keep us stuck in dis-ease.

In our current society, built on pathologizing, medicating, policing and imprisoning rather than healing, loving and supporting people and communities, it is essential that each of us orient our healing towards personal and collective abolition of these internalized systems of violence. I am committed to helping you choose a path of healing that directs you inward to your innate ability to heal, outward to our communities' collective power, and away from the institutions that would keep us stuck in our trauma for profit.

"When I learn to hold what hurts, I am able to be more open to what restores."

-Chani Nicholas (she/her), astrologer and writer

I work through a trauma-conscious worldview, where stress and trauma are understood as relational, intergenerational, historical, often complex and ongoing. I believe trauma does not define our stories, while still informing our current work. In my practice, trauma will never be pathologized, weaponized, criminalized or seen as a personal defect. Rather, trauma will be held and encouraged to release, enliven and create.

"How lucky are we? We create ourselves."

-POSE

I am most passionate about working within my community of queer and trans folx across the lifespan - especially queer, trans and non-binary young people. We are a community of unique creativity, relationships, resilience, resistance, community, love and healing. We are of a legacy of healers, witches, spiritual leaders, warriors, resisters, artists, musicians, philosophers, and so much more.

I am also passionate about working with other queer healers - therapists, acupuncturists, massage therapists, psychics, social workers, community activists/organizers, lawyers, doulas, midwives - as we reclaim and continue to establish our unique positions within community and society.

"Anti-racism work can quickly become warped if it involves white people who fundamentally do not love themselves."

-Tobin Shearer, author and history professor

As a white person, a part of my work with other white-identified people will be dismantling internalized white dominance and violence through explorations and accountability in:

• white ethnic identity and ancestry
• intergenerational trauma
• locating healing practices from land-based white ancestry
• white guilt, shame, violence
• resensitization to our bodies
• learning to harness privilege
• recognizing personal positionality and engagement in oppression
• intersectionality
• naming and dismantling white culture
• engagement in social justice movements