I’m a trans, queer psychotherapist and World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Certified Member. I’m dedicated to providing safe, therapeutic space for transgender, queer, and questioning clients. As a dual-state licensed clinician in California and New York, my clinical practice, Transcendent Identity Therapy serves to fill a critical need in creating competent, affirming, accessible care for our community and offers a warm environment to explore, process, and repair relationships within the self and with others

My work centers individuals 18+ navigating challenges related to coming out, social and medical transition, interpersonal, familial, and intimate partner relationship dynamics. My client-therapist relationships center collaboration, support, and acceptance. Theoretically, I approach our therapeutic alliance from psychodynamic, relational, narrative, and systems lenses. We will explore how your lived experience impacts and yields performance and participation in the world around you.

I work towards actively acknowledging how intersectional identities and systems of oppression impact experiences. In an empathic space, I meet clients where they are to support the processing of trauma, reform the prioritization of one’s needs, and to create and expand boundaries, increase integration, and holistically care for the self. I cater interventions to individual client needs and utilize a diverse mix of therapeutic modalities to hold safe space for clients.

I’m a dual-state Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with licensure in California and New York. I started my practice in NYC in 2015 and expanded to full-time practice in both states in 2021.

Before shifting my focus to private practice, I worked for several years as the Clinical Services Liaison for Harvey Milk High School (HMHS) and Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI) in NYC. I provided direct therapy services and case management for hundreds of LGBTQ+ youth. My role directly informed their mission to promote a nurturing and inclusive educational environment where queer and gender expansive youth obtained the necessary skills to live successful, independent lives.