I’m a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), based in Western Massachusetts, providing outpatient therapy both in person and via telehealth. I primarily work with with autistic, ADHD, and/or anxious teens and adults and I especially enjoy working with queer, transgender, and otherwise marginalized people. I can help with difficulties related to executive functioning, anxiety, mood, obsessions and compulsions, and living in a society that does not appreciate diversity as much as we need it to.

Most of my therapeutic work involves asking questions intended to help people think about themselves and their experiences in new ways. After building a strong rapport, I seek to explore and, potentially, gently challenge people’s previous assumptions or patterns of thinking and behavior. I also encourage people to push-back when I’m not quite getting it right. I think the term “empathetic curiosity” describes the approach I hope you’ll see me take.

I can offer tools and techniques from many different therapeutic modalities and other people with lived-experience, including resources I’ve made and those that I can find to fit specific situations or provide more information about specific topics. While I don’t assign homework, I do encourage people to think of ways they can continue their therapeutic work between sessions.

I believe that, as a community, our strength is in our neurodiversity. To quote Sonny Jane Wise’s latest book: “We’re All Neurodiverse.” Whether you’re autistic or experience attention differences/hyperactivity, anxiety, OCD, or other forms of neurodivergence, I believe that your brain can do wonderful things.