I’m Arielle – a queer relationship therapist. I’m invested in supporting you to deepen your capacity for authentic relating with yourself and the people you choose to hold close in your life. As a relational therapist, I work with a variety of relational containers and do not subscribe to any one definition, style, or significance of a relationship, partnership, couple, or family. I honor you as the expert of your lived experience, and work with you to cultivate a space that facilitates transformation. Together, we’ll pull back the curtain on the patterns and beliefs that have shaped your relational blueprint, and work collaboratively to map out an updated version that reflects more of who you are and what you want. I love working with couples, parents, and adult relational containers of all kinds, and I especially enjoy supporting relationships that are navigating stages of transition related to explorations with sexual orientation and/or relationship orientation. There are very few roadmaps to help guide you into this new terrain, and big changes don’t have to be figured out in isolation. I’m here to help you and your loved one/s improve communication, listen better, feel more heard and understood, and create agreements and boundaries that feel supportive and authentic to everyone involved. I approach our work together from an intersection of collaborative, conversational, queer, feminist, trauma-informed, ecologically-informed/collapse-aware, and somatically-informed frameworks. As human beings, we’re wired for bonding. We need each other. And as the uncertainty of our world increases, our wellbeing hinges more than ever on the wellbeing of our relationships.

Our therapeutic relationship is foundational to the work we do together. I bring my whole self into the room with you – both my personal and professional experiences along with the various aspects of my identity that inevitably shape how I relate with you. Some of my identities include being a white, cisgender woman, lesbian, mother to a neurodivergent child, spiritual, Jewish, highly sensitive, educated, and able-bodied. Some of my relational experiences include marriage, divorce, co-parenting, coming out later in life, loving people living with addiction, and experiencing the sudden death of a partner. My way of being (both in and out of the therapy room) is inquisitive, compassionate, empathetic, warm, and direct.

I am a licensed marriage and family therapist associate currently receiving clinical supervision from Jamie Brazell, LMFT, CST-S. My graduate training in couple and family therapy was rooted in a social justice orientation and included specific training in working with transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals, couples, and families, sexual minority individuals, couples, and families, and polyamorous relationships. During my graduate program I collaborated with two colleagues on a research project focused on exploring the impact of disclosure of a therapist’s sexual orientation on the therapeutic alliance, and focused personal research on intimate partner violence in lesbian relationships across the lifespan. I am passionate about supporting relationships that exist in the margins of societal recognition and creating a space for you and your relationships to be seen, honored, and deeply cared for.

Some of my education and trainings include:
MA in Couple and Family Therapy – Antioch University New England (2024)
Certified Somatic Trauma Therapist via The Embody Lab (2021)
Trauma Response and Crisis Care (TRACC) Training (2020)
Certified Bhakti Yoga Teacher via Bhakti Yoga Shala (2013)
BA in Environmental Studies – University of California Santa Cruz (2010)