Who I work with

Among the diversity of people that have trusted me with their stories are transgender people, immigrants, academics, artists, survivors of childhood trauma, and more. I find this work immensely rewarding, in part because I bring both professional training and lived experience to my practice. Whether or not you belong to any of the categories below — whoever you are, however you identify, and whatever has happened to you — you are welcome here.

Trans and gender-diverse people

I offer therapy that doesn’t require you to educate your therapist first. Whether you’re exploring your identity or are further along in transition, or you’re dealing with something entirely unrelated to being trans but tired of it becoming the subject anyway, I bring both clinical competence and lived understanding to our work together.

Immigrants

Displacement, dual belonging, family expectation across distance, the particular grief of leaving somewhere and the particular strain of arriving somewhere else — these carry their own emotional weight, distinct from (though sometimes intertwined with) other kinds of trauma.

Academics & Artists

The pressures of academic life — precarity, perfectionism, isolation, the blurred line between identity and output — often go unnamed as sources of real psychological strain. I understand this world from the inside. I also know that creative work rarely stays separate from inner life. I work with artists on the specific tangle of identity, vulnerability, and livelihood that creative practice can involve.

People exploring sexuality and relationship diversity

I am sex-positive, kink-aware, and versed in the worlds of polyamory, relationship anarchism, ethical non-monogamy, etc. Together, we can explore both the emotional challenges and joys of your experience in a safe, confidential, non-judgemental space.

Trauma and abuse survivors

This work is slow, non-linear, and deeply personal. I support survivors of trauma and abuse in its many forms, including childhood abuse, to understand what happened, how it shaped them, and how to build a present and future that isn’t dictated by it — always at a pace that feels safe.

Many of us hold more than one of these experiences at once — a queer academic, a trans immigrant, an artist processing childhood trauma. You don’t need to fit neatly into one category — or in any category at all — for us to work together in a way that makes sense to you.

Some of the issues we may work on together

• Stress and anxiety, including climate and eco anxiety
• Depression and low mood
• Trauma, PTSD, and C-PTSD
• Emotional abuse, sexual abuse, domestic abuse, coercive control
• LGBTQ+ identities and experiences
• Sexuality and relationship diversity
• Grief, loss, bereavement
• Death and dying
• Existential questions, like meaning and loneliness
• Shame, low self-esteem or self-worth
• The pressures of academic and creative pursuits
• Issues related to migration