Individual Therapy

I see adults ages 18 and older. I work with women, men and non-binary clients. I welcome the opportunity to support clients from a variety of backgrounds and seek to offer an inclusive, affirming and welcoming space.

Working With Therapists

I enjoy working with therapists and believe that a therapist can only bring their client as far as they have gone in their own work.  By helping other therapists become more self-aware, find healing from their wounds and develop more self-leadership and compassion, I believe they are able to be more present with their own clients.  I also feel like Internal Family Systems therapy is a wonderful approach that therapists usually find unique and transforming.

Online Therapy

I offer affordable, accessible online counseling services, while maintaining the utmost professionalism and confidentiality. I ask that clients who have not received the COVID-19 vaccine meet with me via online therapy.

Couples Therapy

IFS Couples Therapy

I am currently enrolled in Basic IFIO Training (Intimacy from the Inside Out), which is an experiential model of couple’s therapy that originates from the Internal Family Systems model. IFIO is a powerful modality of couples therapy that provides greater intimacy within both the individual and the couple. As a social worker, I also operate from a systemic lens when working with couples. I believe that acknowledging the systems of oppression (patriarchy and heterosexism) that keep relationships from flourishing is key to greater connection within a partnership. When those systems are dismantled within the relationship, repair is possible and partnerships can transform. I prefer to schedule a session and a half (75 minutes) when working with couples. Both heterosexual and same sex couples are welcome in my office.

Traumatic Grief and Loss

An Invitation to Fully Inhabited Grief

I am certified in Compassionate Bereavement Care, a mindfulness-based non-medicalized approach to traumatic grief. Traumatic grief is recognized as the death of a baby or child (at any age and from any cause), death after prolonged suffering, violent death, suicide, homicide and sudden/untimely death. This evidence based framework developed by Joanne Cacciatore is rooted in the art of full presence and does not pathologize grief. In other words, grief is not a mental health diagnosis and I offer space for the full expression of your grief. I believe that our culture (sometimes therapists included) often shies away from grief, and especially traumatic grief, which presents the most difficult and painful circumstance for individuals, families and communities. I believe that grief work is sacred work, and that love and grief are inextricably connected. I have found that when my clients turn toward grief (rather than avoiding, numbing, etc) it becomes evident that “the cure for the pain is in the pain” (Rumi). I also believe that the process of sitting with traumatic grief often cannot be limited to 50 minute therapy sessions, so I offer traumatically bereaved clients extended sessions without the extended fee, if necessary.

“Grief isn’t a symptom to be rid of. It is the cost of love.” - Joanne Cacciatore

Supervision

I offer individual and group supervision for social workers working toward licensure.  Please contact me so that we can discuss whether or not my supervision style might be a good fit for you.

IFS Consultation Groups

These are six week experiential groups aimed at introducing therapists to the IFS model.  Please email me for information on current and future offerings.  Groups will consist of topics/exercises such as: 

• Getting started with IFS

• Using parts language

• Speaking for our own parts

• Exploring therapist parts (Parts that get in the way of being fully present with clients)

• IFS and spirituality

• Inner Critic work

• Sculpting exercises

• Demonstrations of IFS work

• Meditations using IFS

Fees