Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW
I work collaboratively with queer, trans, and poly individuals & families to address the barriers in connecting with ourselves & others.
Client Status
503-974-6885
97212
Rate: $180-$250
Provides free initial consultation
Practicing Since: 2019
Languages: English
As a member of the LGBTQI+ community, I have a special interest and passion in serving those who identify as queer and trans- community members, as well as families and parents navigating their young person's coming out experience. Additionally, my interest, education, and experience include working with adolescents, adults, groups, and families navigating relationship conflict, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief and loss, gender dysphoria, body dysmorphia, and traumatic experiences, among others.
Specialties
In working with the LGBTQIA2S+ community, I know how difficult this world can be to navigate. Unfortunately, due to historically oppressive systems, experiences of trauma are an all too common occurrence among our community. Yet, the resilience of our community is inspiring and healing. Utilizing intersectional-feminist and systems lens, as well as elements of popular education, I am passionate about working with our community to both grieve the systemic harm and co-create resilience!
Traumatic experiences change the way we see and experience the world. They also often rob us of our ability to trust ourselves. I hope to collaborate with you to create safety in the therapeutic relationship and build a toybox of skills and tools to ease the daily distress. With this safety, these skills, and my experience and training we will begin reprocessing and integrating the experiences that robbed you of peace and trust in self, such that you are empowered to reclaim it!
Our experiences of gender, especially for queer, trans, and non-binary folks, are most often complicated by the world and communities around us. I work to remove barriers to obtaining gender-affirming care and support gender-expansive clients in self-love and discovery in the process of understanding our gender(ed/less) experience. I look forward to witnessing and supporting you on this often wonderful, sometimes painful, nearly always rewarding process of unearthing your most authentic self!
There is no doubt that grief and loss are processes that we experience as a result of death. However, grief and loss are all too commonly relegated solely to the realm of death loss, ignoring the fact that being a human presents everyday experiences of grief and loss. Loss of time, expectations, relationships, to name a few, are often disenfranchised, resulting in exacerbated and unnamed grief. I work to validate these everyday losses and support you in navigating grief regardless of its causes.
Dissociation is our body's way of disconnecting from overwhelming experiences (thoughts, feelings, identity, reality). Dissociation can feel terrifying, comforting, and frustrating when we feel like we don't have a choice in the matter. I've been trained and have much experience working with folks on dissociative symptoms on the spectrum from daydreaming to depersonalization/derealization, as well as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Let's work together to put you back in the driver's seat.
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