Virtual IFS and EMDR Therapy that’s Effective, Authentic and Affirming

Whether you’re wanting support with:

• Navigating gender affirming care

• Seeking ways to access gender joy

• Looking for a place to explore your identities

• Wanting support navigating dysphoria and understanding how to be with this experience

• Struggling with waiting for gender affirming care

• Being in a gender expansive body during the current political climate;

I’m here to support you.

Together, we use a queer lens that incorporates IFS and somatic therapy so you can experience your thoughts, feelings, and lived experiences from a place of greater safety.

Working this way can lead to more awareness, freedom and agency, so you can live the life that feels most aligned with your authentic self. You will learn how to be with your emotions and explore your unique gender journey.

Maybe you’ve done talk therapy before. Maybe you feel like you know your story and your trauma on an intellectual level, but still feel stuck in the same patterns and relational cycles.

Maybe you feel like you’ve talked about your trauma, but haven’t been able to move past the pain that lives deep inside.

I’ve been there, and have experienced first hand the lasting change that occurs when we slow down, listen to the stories our bodies are telling us, and truly listen to our internal family of parts.

Using IFS and somatic therapy, we go past the story to more deeply understand what’s still in pain, what’s keeping you stuck, and learn not only how to find healing, but how to imagine new, more liberated ways of being with yourself.

We’ll also work on giving you tangible tools to use in your everyday life to support you on your healing journey.

Somatic therapy and IFS are both incredibly effective modalities for healing trauma and experiencing real-life change.

Anxiety and depression exist and show up in infinite ways. Often, clients come to me saying they’ve spent years trying all the things, doing all the self-help strategies and coping skills, and still haven’t found relief.

If this sounds like you, you’re not alone. I was there, too.

Often, we get stuck because we try to push anxiety and depression away instead of deeply understanding the parts beneath the symptoms. Through IFS and somatic therapy, we do just that:

• We go beyond the label and, with deep care and reverence, understand how anxiety and depression have been showing up in your body

• We get curious about how your internal parts are trying to take care of you, and offer your system new ways to be in the world that fit your current life

• We get in touch with the body, giving you new possibilities for you to shift and move feelings and sensations when they arise

Instead of fighting anxiety and depression, I help folx learn to understand the wisdom behind the feelings, which creates a much more effective roadmap for relief and healing.

I work often with folx living in bodies that hold chronic illness and chronic pain. If you notice:

• Parts of you that feel critical of how you handle your illness or pain

• Parts of you that grieve the limitations of your body

• Parts of you that feel burnt out by the medical system

• Parts of you that feel unseen by ableism and by friends and family

• Parts of you that feel fear and panic about symptom flares

I’m here with you. Using IFS and somatic therapy as a framework, we slow down and understand each of your internal parts that need support as you navigate the daily experiences in your body, so that you can build greater awareness of how to tend to those parts with love and care when they arise.

I hold a disability justice lens and honor your access needs.

To all the folx mobilizing on the front lines, engaging in mutual and direct aid, and to those directly impacted by state violence, I see you.

Activism and organizing is embodied resistance, and as you ride the waves of rage, grief, anger and community as you use your body to fight for liberation, you also deserve care.

Care for your body within a therapy context looks like:

• Mapping out how your nervous system is responding (fight, flight, freeze, fawn)

• Giving you tangible, practical, culturally responsive tools, accessible to your unique body, that you can use to nourish and sustain your body for sustainable activism

• Practicing these tools in session and practice co-regulation strategies

• Discussing aftercare strategies to help you find sips of safety

• Giving you tools that you can take back into your communities

Grief comes in many forms. It can be the loss of a loved one, loss of a companion animal, or the loss of an ability in your body. You might be grieving a major life transition. Or maybe you’re experiencing intergenerational and legacy grief, collective grief given the state of the world, or ecological grief about climate change.

Grief is not one-size-fits-all, and it isn’t linear.

Together, I help you and your system of parts learn to be with the grief. This can look like:

• Finding grounding and soothing body-based practices to anchor you as you ride the waves of feeling

• Having a space to slow down and feel with someone who is deeply listening

• Being with the parts that don’t want to grieve, are afraid of the feeling, or feel lost about where to go next

• Creating rituals that make sense for your identities that help you move with your grief

• Helping you establish community and connection so you don’t grieve alone

Many folx come to me wanting a queer and trans-affirming space to explore their sexuality, and gain a deeper understanding of their relationship to kink, BDSM, and polyamory.

Talking about sex can often feel uncomfortable, taboo, or impossible. Together, we establish an affirming container that builds safety and rapport so that you can feel comfortable exploring:

• Your sexual identities

• Your desires and patterns relationships and sex

• Relational dynamics around kink and BDSM