One step closer to feeling more like yourself.
I offer a body-honoring, trauma-informed approach to therapy that honors every part of who you are—your mind, your body, your history, your intuition, and your identities. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, disconnected from your body, or unsure what you need but know something has to change—this work meets you where you are. We’ll work to untangle what’s been held for too long holding you back from the life you desire.
Come home to your body, your story, your self.
What Makes My Approach Unique
Identity and neuro-affirming: LGBTQIA2S+, neurodivergent, weight neutral/fat positive/HAES aligned, and BIPOC/global majority welcoming. I strive to acknowledge the impact the overculture we are living in has on us, now more than ever- let’s move away from the lie of the personal moral failing and liberate our worth from these systems.
Trauma informed and not afraid to go into the deep, dark corners of your story with you. I’ve walked this hard path as well and believe in your capacity to heal. You don’t have to do it alone.
Collaborative healing, not hierarchical or pathologizing where it isn’t helpful, we work together toward your healing, drawing on your strengths and inherent worth
No forced catharsis or breakthroughs, no fixing, no performing, just unfolding of who you truly are in spacious safety.
Beyond just talk therapy, I interweave dynamic and experiential approaches with flexibility to meet your unique needs
Some of the Modalities I Work With
Somatic/Embodiement Therapy
Somatic Therapy is a body-centered approach to therapy that increases body awareness and helps people release held emotional and physical tension created by past trauma or life stressors. Techniques I lean towards combine embodiment practices with somatic awareness and processing. This approach helps clients work into deeper change than cognitive therapies alone (although cognitive approaches will show up when needed). Working with your body’s wisdom through allowing yourself to feel emotions and sensations allows you to understand and stay connected to your experience on a deeper level. This is also a skill that can be learned if it feels inaccessible to you! Our minds can create fantastic but sometimes damaging stories but our body always tells the truth. Let’s be brave together and listen to what your body is trying to tell you.
Internal Family Systems
(IFS/Parts Work)
IFS or “parts work” sees our internal world as made up of many “parts”—some protective, some wounded, each one with their own vital insight into your life and your story. In this work, we gently and respectfully connect with these parts, helping you understand their roles and bring them into balance and cooperation. This work helps to understand the internal motivations for hard to change behaviors and can be helpful for debilitating shame, self-criticism, inner conflict, dissociation, complex trauma, identity exploration, and building deeper self-trust.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR helps the brain and body reprocess stuck memories or experiences that feel “frozen” in time as well as anchoring in resources you find helpful. My approach integrates body based awareness practices with an attachment lens into traditional EMDR for a more embodied and integrated experience.
This way of working with EMDR has been shown to be helpful for complex trauma, medical trauma, painful past experiences, shifting long-held beliefs tied to early wounding and creating change where talk therapy alone hasn’t reached. It can be a intensive, targeted modality to deeply process stuck experiences and it can also be a gentle addition woven into other modalities of therapy to deepen the experience while assisting in change and resourcing.
Certified BODY TRUST® PROVIDER
Body Trust® is a healing framework that invites you to move away from internalized shame, disconnection, and control and toward a more compassionate, respectful relationship with your body. Instead of treating your body as a problem to solve, Body Trust® helps you reconnect with its wisdom.
This work is especially supportive for people recovering from eating disorders, chronic dieting, or body shame but is really helpful for all of us reckoning with a world that does not support our birthright to reclaim our bodies as our own no matter their story. This is body liberation rooted work that honors the impact of trauma, systemic harm, and lived experience. In our work together, you’ll have space to explore what it means to feel at home in your body, unapologetically on your terms.
I’m a certified Body Trust® provider. Learn more at www.centerforbodytrust.com/
In-person sessions SW Portland/Capitol Hill Neighborhood | Virtual telehealth sessions available in Oregon
RATE: $140 per session
Sliding scale available and subject to availability · HSA/FSA accepted
Superbills provided for out-of-network reimbursement
At this practice, I accept sliding scale payment for therapy as a way to honor community care and promote accessibility to mental health support in ways that feel sustainable and compassionate. If you're considering using my sliding scale, I invite you to assess your needs from the heart, honestly reflecting on your financial situation while also holding space for the needs of others in our shared community. There is no shame in asking for your needs to be met, please reach out with questions. This approach allows us to maintain a balance between care, integrity, and sustainability for all.