SERVICES

Services offered exclusively via telehealth to folks in Texas and Massachusetts

INDIVIDUAL THERAPY FOR ADULTS

I am an IFS trained therapist and hold this as my primary therapeutic frame for viewing people, the clinical work, and our relationship. I utilize other strategies within the work as helpful or appropriate. My work with folks is focused on deepening understanding of the self, increasing comfort with emotion, and increasing capacity for self-compassion.

CLINICAL SUPERVISION FOR LMSW PRACTITIONERS IN TEXAS

I am a Board Approved Clinical Supervisor in the state of Texas and gladly offer supervision toward LCSW licensure. My supervision style is a blend of professional and personal. I believe one of the greatest benefits of supervision is to better understand what aspects of the personal are blending in to the professional work. I focus on helping clinicians gain confidence in use of experiential methods and developing the therapeutic presence to best support their clients.

SOCIAL LOCATION

Before sharing my values, I will speak to the lenses that inform the ways I move through the world.

I am a white, cisgender, queer woman.

I am partnered and I am a step-parent.

I am a daughter, sister, friend and both a biological and non-biological aunt.

I was raised in a middle class Catholic family though I no longer participate in the church.

I was born in the US and English is my first language.

I have had lifelong relationships with anxiety, depression, and perfectionism.

I am active in supporting my own mental and physical health and remain a work in progress.

PRACTICE VALUES

Personal and professional values that are at the heart of my practice and inform my work with all clients

INHERENT DIGNITY AND WORTH OF ALL PEOPLE

I ardently believe and operate from a stance of believing in the inherent dignity and worth of all human beings. Period. I do not believe that worth and value need to be earned or proven throughout our lives. I commit to undoing shame, feelings of aloneness, and the experience of "not enough" in all people.

COMPASSION FOR SUFFERING

I deeply hold and believe that all humans experience suffering in their lives. I believe that humans are hugely adaptable to traumatic experiences in childhood and beyond that create and inform future behaviors and thought patterns. I hold a non-judgmental and open stance to all human behavior as being worthy of understanding and exploration if there is going to be any possibility of change. I commit to working to understand fully the ways in which every person has uniquely found a way to survive in their life and to creating an opportunity for making lasting change through compassion and deep understanding.

Y'ALL MEANS ALL

I strive to create a therapeutic space that is safe and welcoming for all folks. I particularly am passionate about providing a space for folks to explore aspects of themselves that they may fear bringing into a therapeutic space (especially in central Texas). I welcome LGBTQ+ folks, people of color, people practicing non-Christian religions, neurodiverse folks, folks trying to heal their relationship with their body/food/exercise, and anyone who has felt squeezed by more pathologizing and prescriptive types of therapy work in the past. I am open to exploring my identities as they relate to our work and always center my client's lived experience.