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About My Clients
If you're interested in addressing past trauma, exploring relationship patterns, and/or getting support for oppression and marginalization you face, we might be a good fit. I especially enjoy working with people from marginalized groups, including clients who are disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, or adjusting to an injury or medical condition.
My Background and Approach
In therapy, my aim is to help you heal more deeply (from any loss, trauma, or pain that feels "stuck") by gradually traveling to places within yourself that you might be afraid to go. I hope that my accompaniment will make this task feel possible and that the rewards will be rich. In the process, you might discover a part of yourself – perhaps your capacity to play, rest, dream, grieve, be intimate, or receive care, for instance – that you buried long ago in an effort to survive. Recovering and reclaiming these parts, I believe, can help us feel more alive, expanding our sense of what is possible.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I’m a white, queer, disabled woman with a lifelong visual processing disorder. Having a body and brain that differ from the so-called “norm” has led me to work, in concert with others, toward a more just and inclusive world. I bring an anti-oppressive lens to my work, meaning I recognize systems of oppression impact the mental health of individuals. Although we can’t “solve” wider issues of injustice within individual therapy, we can explore how those broader realities have affected you, and we can unpack “internalized” oppression (i.e., harmful beliefs you may have unintentionally absorbed). I am influenced by disability justice: a framework of values developed by BIPOC, queer, disabled activists in the Bay Area which promotes the collective liberation of disabled people. Before becoming a therapist, I spent four years in rehabilitative healthcare working with survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and eight years doing non-profit work including union and community organizing.