I'll tell you upfront: I bring humor into the therapy room. Not because hard things aren't hard, but because I've found that lightness often creates the opening that seriousness alone can't. Genuine connection is what makes therapy work, and genuine connection means being a real person across from you, not a performance of one.

I work with adolescents and adults. Anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges bring most people to me. I also specialize in OCD, trauma and PTSD, and LGBTQ+ identity and gender exploration. I carry an anti oppression framework into all of it, which means I believe you're the expert on your own life, and that some of what gets called "maladaptive patterns" makes a lot of sense when you understand what someone's had to survive.

My background includes working in a residential facility for homeless youth, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs, and community education focused on sexual health and creating genuinely affirming spaces for LGBTQ+ young people. That community educator part of me never fully went away. I love explaining things. I think understanding why we do what we do actually helps.

I draw from CBT, DBT, and narrative therapy, using evidence based interventions creatively rather than mechanically.

I completed my master's at the University of Washington School of Social Work.

If you want therapy that takes you seriously without taking itself too seriously, I think we'd work well together. I'd love to hear from you.