Approach & Specializations

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I’m so glad you’re here!

I provide trauma-informed, attachment-focused, somatic, IFS therapy in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle.

Our sessions will strike a balance of compassionate, nonjudgmental, and collaborative care, while also ensuring you’re able to gain insight and growth around the things that bring you here.

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What is your approach to therapy?

My goal is to create greater ease in your day-to-day by tending to the roots of the discomfort you’re currently experiencing. Lasting growth and healing are central to my approach.

I am equal parts direct and warm, and humor and swearing tend to make regular appearances in our sessions. It’s always my goal for you to feel like you can be yourself in therapy. There’s no “right” way to exist in the world, and certainly not a right way to be in your own therapy sessions. You’re welcome exactly as you are.

The following types of therapy are all trauma-informed, compassion-forward, and highly effective. If you have any questions about how they work, please just ask! This is a great thing to discuss in our initial 20-minute phone call.


I am formally trained in the following:


In addition to the above modalities, I frequently draw from psychodynamic, humanistic, person-centered, and feminist/queer theories to support my therapeutic approach. Therapy at my practice is always neurodivergent-affirming, affirming of queer, transgender, and nonbinary people, and is fundamentally culturally responsive and anti-oppressive.

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What are your areas of specialization?

I hold the belief that people are fairly limitless and inherently multifaceted. That being said, labels and categories can be quite useful when/if they help us make sense of our experiences. Even so, you do not need a diagnosis to go to, or benefit from, therapy. No matter what, I wholeheartedly believe that you are enough, just as you are.

I frequently work with adults and teens who hold some of the following experiences or identities:

  • Trans/nonbinary people and the greater LGBTQIA+ community

  • Neurodivergence (AuDHD, ADHD, Autism, and 2E/gifted)

  • High-achieving individuals and/or those in high-pressure fields

  • Perfectionism or people-pleasing tendencies

  • Stress, anxiety, and/or panic

  • Depression, grief, and/or lack of motivation

  • Complex trauma (CPTSD), childhood trauma, and/or relational trauma

  • Dissociation and/or dissociative disorders

  • Life-transitions (major changes to identity, roles, location, career, spirituality, etc.)

  • Relationship concerns (ex. at school, at work, or significant relationships)

  • Those who want to explore their relationship structure, sense of sexuality, or other topics regarding physical and/or emotional intimacy

  • Therapists, social workers, naturopaths, etc.

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