I work from both an anti-oppression and multicultural lens and have served the LGBTQ+ community for many years through individual therapy, relationship therapy, and community outreach. As a queer woman of color myself, I understand the dire need for therapists who are culturally attuned, attends to the power structures that exist in the world and in the therapeutic relationship, and who understands and takes into consideration intersectionality. As such,  I am a strength-based therapist who integrates systems, interpersonal, emotion-focused, intersectional feminist, somatic experiencing, and psychodynamic approaches into my work. By systems, I mean I consider the different historical, cultural, and sociopolitical contexts in which my clients were raised and currently live (e.g., intergenerational transmission of trauma, politics, race, social class, sexual orientation, gender, generation, disability) as well as the family system within which they grew up and currently have. As an interpersonal therapist, I value our therapeutic relationship deeply and see it as a significant vehicle for change; it is also a relationship that can parallel patterns that you have with others in your life and so examining our relationship and providing an open, safe, honest, and authentic connection is paramount in my work with you. I also integrate Emotion-Focused Therapy into both my individual and relationship therapy, which means I help individuals and members of relationships identify, clarify and express their feelings and core needs to both themselves and others. As an intersectional feminist therapist, I see our work as collaborative and ultimately see you as the expert of your history and experience; this is tied closely to my social justice lens which is very intersectional in nature.  I do also see the body as holding a lot of wisdom and stories for us and as such, I am attuned to the stories that your body is trying to tell that may be outside your awareness.