I help high-achieving creatives, perfectionists, and people-pleasers find more authenticity, balance, and calm. Productivity, high expectations and performance, showing up for others, and self-reliance may be socially acceptable but also contribute to overfunctioning, burnout, validation-seeking, imposter syndrome, harsh inner critic, compartmentalization, dissociation, self-abandonment, codependency, hypervigilance, and emotional over-regulation. Perhaps you can be rigid and controlling, judgmental and impatient, concerned with status and appearance, feel both too much and not enough, feel less than or other, and chronically lonely.

I typically work with the LGBTQ+ community seeking support around life stages and transitions, career issues, relationships, polyamory and non-monogamy, gender, sexuality, identity, intersectionality, and neurodivergence. I also completed a Health Coaching certificate program at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2010 and view wellness holistically.

I have an interactive, relational style and hold an affirming space for a collaborative therapeutic relationship where clients feel seen, heard, and empowered. Seeking support is a sign of strength, you are not a burden, and you deserve care. It’s an honor and privilege to walk beside and guide clients along their healing journey.

With an eclectic, integrative approach, we’ll explore distressing thought patterns, events and experiences that are contributing factors, and ways to regulate emotions and remain present. I am trained in highly effective therapies targeting OCD and complex trauma, have specialization in substance use and gambling, and apply attachment, anti-oppressive, feminist/queer, and body/sex-positive lenses.

I launched the first substance abuse intensive outpatient program for a premier LGBTQ+ health center in Philadelphia. While there, I led our participation in the Recovery Walk Philadelphia and organized a National Recovery Month CEU training for healthcare professionals, presenting on ‘LGBTQ+ Identity Development and Substance Abuse’. I also offer clinical supervision, group programs, and host events.