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About My Clients
I deliver LGBTQ+ affirming and trauma-informed care. All folks deserve to feel fully heard and seen in therapy, and I work to create a space to bring your full self into therapy. My approach is collaborative, interpersonal, and culturally tailored. You are the expert on your own experience. Thus, I hope to partner with you to offer structure, support, and skills to process your thoughts and emotions and to progress towards your goals.
My Background and Approach
My individual therapy approach draws on evidence based therapy, mainly Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT; examining how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact). I also draw upon exposure therapy for anxiety disorders, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for trauma/PTSD, DBT and ACT skills, and mindfulness. For couple/relationship therapy, I provide tailored, affirming care to diverse constellations of couples, drawing on Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy (CBCT) and Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT). These approaches equip partners move past unhelpful patterns, reconnect, more deeply understand how to tend to oneself and the relationship. Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Postdoctoral Fellowship, Seattle VA Hospital Couple & Family Clinic B.Sc., Clinical Psychology, Tufts University
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Mental health doesn't occur in a vacuum - our loved ones often impact (and are impacted by) our well-being. Our health occurs in an interpersonal, cultural, and societal context - I hope to understand your intersecting identities and values. Therapy is collaborative - you are the expert on you, and I hope to offer tools/resources that you may experiment with applying in your daily life between visit. I deliver invited talks to national audiences on tailoring CBT including LGBTQ+ and non-heteronormative affirming care. At UNC, I led the first research study to develop a couple therapy tailored for sexual minority couples and received a national recognition as a promising young investigator in the field of LGBTQ+ family psychology (2018 APF Roy Scrivner Award). I have a number of sliding scale fee spots reserved for those with financial need. Those with the privilege to pay full fee play an important role in supporting access to care for those with fewer financial resources.