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About My Clients
I cannot tell you how many of my clients have stories of previous therapists pathologizing their kinks, or telling them they’d only work with them if they stopped being polyamorous. Clients have come to me saying that they’d had to spend almost as much time educating their therapists as getting helped by them. To you all is say welcome, lets walk this journey together.
My Background and Approach
I primarily work with DBT, but I am not a hard nose for one particular modality. I think that there are many tools that can be used to help my clients, and we get to tailor what works for you together.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
All the way through high school, I was “the weird kid." I was teased, bullied, and ostracized. While I had a group of friends, I still spent years feeling like there was nowhere I belonged. Then I moved to Seattle to go to college, and I found the local kink community. And there, for the first time, I experienced a sense of belonging. I can remember the exact moment when I first realized I was a part of something, rather than being apart from something. It was the last day of Paradise (a week-long kinky camping trip the CSPC used to host each year), and a bunch of us were sitting around the bonfire. One woman was wearing pink sweats which she said were her “don’t wear out in public” sweats. Someone responded by saying she was out in public, to which she replied “No, I’m with my community”. I actually teared up a bit, hearing her say that. I’d finally found something that I had been looking for my whole life. In many ways, I’d finally found a home.