I offer sessions both virtually and in-person in my First Hill home-office to either individuals or couples/relationships. As an openly queer and neurospicy therapist it is often individuals with similar experiences who find their way to my practice, though I work with a wide variety of clients. This work centers the liberation, anti-oppression, and neurodiversity paradigms: we all (neurodivergent or not) find ourselves within systems that impact our wellness, and discovering where each of our intersections lay within these systems can be profoundly healing.
My work often ventures into the realm of sex-positive therapy, relationships including polyamory, and kink. Within relational therapy I frequently live at the edge of autism and ADHD, and the relational experience. While I am trained to do therapy in many different ways, foundational to my practice are the use of somatics (body-based interventions) including polyvagal work (looking at how the nervous system is impacted by stress), attachment theory, and deep trauma work (I am trained in EMDR for trauma). Clients often say that therapy with me “feels” different than prior experiences, which I have always attributed to the deep relational work that I do that always has a strong emphasis on the dynamic between myself and the client.
I have been working within healing spaces for nearly 15 years, first through a substance recovery lens, and since 2019 as a therapist. People often have read me as highly sensitive: a phrase often cited as problematic, but reclaimed by many as descriptive of a specific orientation towards this world. I am an openly gay therapist, politically queer, understand the experiences of chronic pain and illness though appear mostly able-bodied, and am well-versed in the language and lived-experience of trauma at many different levels. I am an EMDR-trained, licensed mental health counselor who can be found in the following ways:
206-888-0754 (talk or text are ok)