Relational based, trauma and body centered psychotherapy based in Portland, OR.
My therapeutic philosophy is rooted in storytelling and bearing witness. Together we will tend to your collected stories and rewrite what no longer serves. This telling and rewriting happens in both mind and body and I will support you in leaning into both.
I specialize in working with people healing from past trauma (PTSD + CPTSD) and am thus quite familiar with high-anxiety, deep sadness and disembodiment. Extensive experience and joy working with LGBTQIA+ and neurodiverse (autism spectrum, ADHD) populations. I orient towards a multi-generational and systems based worldview that highlights the systemic, cultural, communal, familial, and personal realms of our identities.
“A family is essentially a field of stories, each intricately connected. Death does not sever the connection; rather, the story expands as it continues unwinding inter-dimensionally…At some point we have to understand that we do not need to carry a story that is unbearable. We can observe the story, which is mental; feel the story, which is physical; let the story go, which is emotional; then forgive the story, which is spiritual, after which we use the materials of it to build a house of knowledge.”
-Joy Harjo ~ Poet Warrior: A Memoir p. 18-20. W.W. Norton 2021