Services
About My Clients
I am proud to specialize in serving fellow members of the LGBTQ community. While I aim to serve all populations, I believe as a trans woman I am uniquely positioned to understand the diverse and specialized needs those in our community need when it comes to mental healthcare providers. I aim to foster a collaborative and non-hierarchical position as a therapist. I believe my clients' ultimately have the insight they need to grow, heal, and become their best selves.
My Background and Approach
I am a recent graduate of Portland State's Marriage, Couple, and Family track. I am trained in couple's and relationship counseling, and I strive to serve individuals and relationships within the LGBTQ+ community. I aim to provide a collaborative, non-hierarchical, and nurturing relationship with my clients that's rooted in an unconditional positive regard. I believe clients are the ultimate experts in their own life and I feel it's my role to be a co-pilot along the journey of life. I believe that social conditions and larger oppressive social institutions are huge factors in mental health. I strive towards a radical counseling practice that includes an interrogation of capitalism, white supremacy, colonialism, sexism, and homo/transphobia. At the same time, I also focus on repairing attachment wounds to helping my clients towards reconnecting with their own sacred selves and strengthen their ability to create loving, reparative relationships.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
As a transgender woman, I have firsthand seen the unique struggles with mental health that the LGBTQ+ community deals with. Previously to becoming a therapist, I worked with homeless youth, many of whom are members of the LGBTQ+ community. In terms of mental health, I believe it takes a community to heal. Additionally, I believe in an ability to dismantle our societal institutions of white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and heterosexism through unlearning and de-programming the ways we have been taught to think and act accordingly with these values. As someone who believes in dismantling white supremacy and colonialism, I would be missing the mark if I did not acknowledge my identity as a white woman who benefits from these institutions. I believe in acknowledging this power I implicitly hold in the therapy room by allowing my clients to challenge me as well as constantly seeking resources to help me challenge and interrogate my own complicity in these institutions.