Senior Staff Clinician, Trans and Gender Diverse Student Specialist
Pronouns: They/Them
Education:
BA, Education – emphasis in Health and Fitness, Eastern Washington University
MA, Counseling Psychology, Palo Alto University
MA, Depth Psychology – specializing in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Professional Interests: My clinical and professional interests center around gender liberation, queer wellness, complex trauma, chronic illness/disability, neurodivergence, and the intersecting impacts of colonialism, capitalism, and systemic violence on mental health. I work from a decolonial, abolitionist framework that honors embodied wisdom, community-based care, and non-pathologizing approaches to healing. I am deeply committed to creating affirming, accessible, and liberatory spaces for trans and gender-diverse people, especially those navigating multiple sites of marginalization. As a practitioner, I integrate somatics, narrative practice, ancestral connection, and mindfulness in ways that are culturally grounded in serving goals of personal agency and empowerment. As a scholar and advocate, I am interested in how settler colonialism shapes dominant constructions of gender, and in cultivating counternarratives rooted in queer and trans worldviews. I believe healing is both personal and collective, and I am most energized by work that moves us toward justice, dignity, and deep belonging.
Theoretical Orientation and Therapy Approach: I take a relational, liberatory approach to therapy that draws from narrative, somatic, and mindfulness-based practices within a decolonial and feminist framework. I center the wisdom of queer, trans, neurodivergent, disabled, and chronically ill bodies and lives. I hold space for clients to explore the ways systems of power shape internal experiences of suffering, identity, and possibility. I work collaboratively and non-pathologically, guided by a belief in each person’s inherent wholeness and capacity for transformation. I strive to co-create therapeutic spaces that are empowering, culturally responsive, and deeply affirming; spaces where healing is not only about reducing symptoms, but about reclaiming personal power, community, and aliveness.
Supervision Approach and Model: My supervision style is grounded in the Developmental Model, Relational Alliance Model, and Relational-Cultural Theory. I view supervision as a relationship in which early career clinicians are supported in developing clinical skills, critical consciousness, and a deepened sense of therapeutic identity. I take a developmental and collaborative approach that attends to systemic oppression, vicarious trauma, self-of-the-therapist work, and the personal and professional integration necessary for sustainable practice. I center embodied presence and cultural responsiveness, striving to create a supervision space that is spacious, rigorous, joyful, and deeply affirming. My goal is to support supervisees in becoming clinicians who are rooted, relational, and oriented toward a healing model that is both clinically sound and socially transformative.