• The What, How, and Why

    Areas of Practice

    Anxiety and Stress

    Depression

    Neurodivergence, Autism, ADHD, and Perceptual Differences like Hallucinations or Depersonalization/Derealization

    Life Transitions, Retirement, Caregiving

    Family of Origin Concerns - Emotional Neglect, Blended Families, Adoption, and Generational Trauma

    Gender and Sexual Identity Exploration, LGBTQIA+ Affirming

    Hospitalizations (Medical and Psychiatric)

    Techniques

    Art Therapy uses exercises that identify, explore, and release emotions and thoughts in a physical and visual representation of your internal world. It gives a physical "body" to the things you're going through, and allows some unexpected information to surface. As you create reflective artwork in our sessions, you build confidence, self-understanding, and a sense of groundedness in your own human experience.

    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) promotes flexibility in thought, feeling, and action through mindfulness, values clarification, and values-aligned action. We can work together to define what drives you, help you be more aware of your emotions, and to move through your life in a way that feels authentic.

    Mindfulness underpins a lot of the work I do. By cultivating awareness of physical sensation, emotional states, and reactive responses we can promote relaxation, build compassion for ourselves and others, move toward acceptance, and gain more agency over how we respond to our experiences.

    Values

    My practice is dedicated to affirming neurodiverse, queer, cultural, and economically diverse experiences through a liberatory lens. To embody this ideal, I offer flexible session pricing for lower-resourced folks, people with marginalized identities, and BIPOC. Sessions can be scheduled every other week to reduce the financial burden of accessing care without losing what makes the therapeutic alliance so effective as a healing tool.

    As for AI, it has no place in my practice at this time. I do not use AI transcription, note-taking, or marketing tools in my business, and I plan to keep my practice AI-free for the forseeable future. Human care for your human self.