Attachment focused relationship therapy from a sex-positive lens. Working with adults, couples & relationships and families in Oregon and Washington State for 19 years.

Counseling Competencies

19 years clinical experience, serving a diverse population of clients
Experienced in supporting youth, families, couples, polycules, adults
Transgender/non-binary affirming and identifying. Pronouns are they/them
Trauma-informed practices
Trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Counseling (EFT) and Gottman for Couples
Completed PACT Level One (Psychobiological Approach to Couples Counseling)
Sex-positive
Polyamorous friendly/knowledgeable
Anti-racist, anti-oppression, committed to doing my own work
Kink friendly/knowledgeable
Queer
Enjoy working with, supporting other therapists and helping professionals
Experienced/trained in supporting people with Bipolar Disorder - Trained in IPSRST: Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy for Bipolar Disorder
Autistic
Health at Every Size supportive, body positive, fat positive

Mission

My mission is to support my clients with a compassionate, creative approach using an attachment and trauma-informed framework, connecting the way we were raised with how our relationships work (or don’t work for us) as adults. I want to help people discover ways to heal and move forward in their lives, discover goals they want to set, and the individual ways in which they will be meeting those goals. I enjoy helping people explore their gender (or lack of gender) in a safe environment. I come to this work from an existential perspective and love helping people explore concepts such as identity, personal meaning, freedom and change.

In relationship work/couples counseling, I want to help people develop healthy connections and attachments to the people they love and to themselves. I believe that my clients are the experts in their relationship, and it is my job and honor to help coach and guide them into more effective ways of relating. Many of us were not given models for what a healthy relationship looks like, nor how to disagree in ways that feel fair and just for everyone involved. Much of my approach to couples/relationship work comes from PACT and Stan Tatkin’s work on attachment (his book Wired for Love is a good place to start.)

Experience: lived and formal training

I have been a mental health therapist since 2005, working with youth, families and individuals in a variety of domains, including in-home family therapy, community mental health, foster care, and in schools. I have extensive experience in people of all ages, including those who are from cultural and ethnic diverse groups and minority-identifying, recent immigrants, and/or transgender, non-binary, and/or gender fluid. I am also knowledgeable in supporting polyamorous, kinky, and queer individuals. I am a licensed Mental Health Therapist in Washington State, LH 60344737, and a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon State, C6618. I graduated from Eastern Washington University in 2005 with a Master’s of Science in Applied Psychology. I am fat, queer and trans, my pronouns are they/them. I benefit from white privilege and work to educate myself so I can minimize the harm done via white supremacy culture in the therapy room and beyond.

In my free time, I love to garden, play analog and modular synthesizers, hike to hot springs, and eat all the delicious foods. I play a lot of video games (fave right now is Valheim), love to nerd out about nearly anything, and most recently spending time updating our 1906 foursquare home with my wife.