Individual & Relational Therapy
My clinical work is grounded in the belief that symptoms are a sign of survival. They often emerge as attempts to belong, protect self or make unbearable experiences feel more manageable. I specialize in working with complex patterns of suffering in ways that are relational, affirming of Queer, Trans, BIPOC, and Neurodivergent lives.
Specialties
While I work with people from many backgrounds and with a range of mental health concerns, much of my work centers on the ways people learn to survive unbearable feelings — through control, avoidance, dissociation, compulsion, self-protection, or attempts to quiet the body and mind. I specialize in the following areas:
• Eating Disorders & Body Image
• OCD, Body Dysmorphia & Compulsive Patterns
• Addictions & Behavioral Escapes
• Complex Trauma & Dissociation
Eating Disorders & Body Image
Do you feel like food, your body, movement, or the rules you live by have become the only way to feel safe or in control? Eating disorders are rarely just about food; they are often adaptations to shame, fear, dysphoria, trauma, grief, identity, or the feeling of being profoundly out of control. Drawing from relational Psychoanalysis and Gestalt psychotherapy, I work with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, ARFID, chronic dieting, body shame, and disordered relationships with food, movement, and the body in a way that supports deeper, longer-term healing.
OCD, Body Dysmorphia & Compulsive Patterns
Does your mind keep searching for certainty, even when reassurance only helps for a moment? OCD, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and compulsive patterns can make the mind and body feel like unsafe places to live, often narrowing your world through checking, rumination, avoidance, body monitoring, or the need to feel certain that you are safe, good, loved, or not at risk of harm. My work may integrate ERP, Inference-Based CBT, ACT, and relational depth work to support more freedom while also understanding why these patterns have felt so necessary.
Addictions & Behavioral Escapes
Do you find yourself returning to substances, alcohol, sex, pornography, or other behaviors even when part of you knows they are creating more pain? Addiction starts with something that acts as a source of relief, pleasure, numbness, confidence, or escape and can quickly become a source of secrecy, shame, disconnection, or fear of losing control. I work with addiction and behavioral patterns in a non-shaming, clinically grounded way that helps us understand what the behavior has protected you from, what it has cost, and what it might mean to build a life where relief does not require self-abandonment.
Complex Trauma & Dissociation
Do you move through life feeling on edge, numb, fragmented, disconnected from your body, or as though part of you is still living in what happened? Complex trauma can shape the way a person experiences their body, relationships, emotions, memory, identity, and sense of self, and dissociation is often a survival strategy rather than a flaw. I work with CPTSD, developmental trauma, relational trauma, identity-based trauma, attachment wounds, dissociation, DID, depersonalization, derealization, and chronic experiences of shame, invalidation, or harm through a paced, relational, and affirming approach.