However you arrive at a new beginning in therapy, we can co-create conditions of security, acceptance, and respect. These conditions can be mysteriously elusive in our world, so I devote myself to nourishing them in our time together. I hope this gives you a chance to voice the things you can seldom voice, vent to your heart’s content, and explore dimensions of yourself that you often have to hide. I want you to feel your liveliness emerge in our conversation, and take up space.

      We can not know fully what might emerge, but our therapeutic bond may allow us to face each other anyway and find a dignity-in-relationship that inspires us to become who we are becoming and embrace what we have struggled to care for in ourselves.

       I bring a grounded presence with me from my career as a civil engineer and flexibility I learned as a crisis case-manager in the pandemic. As a therapist, I draw on my education in the existential approach, somatic wisdom from my past as an athlete, and my current artistic practice. As an artist, I enjoy the way creating clothing allows me to investigate fluidity in structure, and to wear what I produce.

      In my past as a crisis case manager I have accompanied clients of a wide array of racial, class, gender and sexual identities, recovering from severe abuse, immigration issues, illness, chronic pain, suicidal ideation, human trafficking, housing insecurity, legal trouble, and incarceration. As humans, we experience indescribable suffering at times, and the right therapy can teach us to face each other and the world with renewed security and desire for understanding.