Outpatient Counseling for Adults
Outpatient Counseling for Adults
Outpatient counseling for adults navigating neurodivergence, anxiety, chronic illness, or their identity.
Specialties & Expertise
Chronic Illness
I enjoy working with clients who are navigating life with chronic illness. My approach to working with clients experiencing chronic illness is validating, empathetic, and strengths-based. I recognize the challenges inherent within the medical system and work with clients to build self-advocacy tools and identify safe supports. I draw most on my Acceptance and Commitment Therapy background in working with chronic illness, collaborating with clients to create lives that feel meaningful in the face of health challenges.
LGBTQ+ Affirming
I am committed to providing a curious, compassionate, and validating environment for my queer, trans, and non-binary clients. My philosophy and practice is LGBTQIA+ informed and sex-positive. I hold experience facilitating psychoeducational workshops on gender identity and sexuality, and enjoy working with clients to explore identity and self-expression.
ADHD, Autism, & AuDHD
I practice using a neuro-affirmative approach. To me, being neuro-affirming means:
Affirming individual differences within the neurodiverse paradigm.
Approaching current and previous coping skills, adaptations, and survival mechanisms with curiosity and empathy— and utilizing a strengths-based lens to amplify and uplift inherent and learned strengths.
Believing in and learning from clients’ lived experience.
Amplifying knowledge, experience, and literature from neurodiverse researchers and clinicians.
Welcoming open, direct, and honest feedback from my clients.
Setting and modeling boundaries within the therapeutic relationship.
Making a conscious choice to use “Autism” as opposed to “Autism Spectrum Disorder.” This language is intended to center Autistic folks’ experiences and to de-pathologize neurodiversity.
*On medical documentation, if diagnosed, documentation will state “Autism Spectrum Disorder.” This is a requirement asserted by the medical model, and is unfortunately out of my control when working with insurance and required to cite/document DSM-5 diagnosis.*
Anxiety
When I am working with clients who have anxiety— my approach is warm, curious, and direct. We might explore attachment and upbringing, determine core beliefs, and examine the meaning and purpose assigned to specific anxiety triggers.
Then, progressively— you might face some of these anxieties head on. Over time, we might re-condition your nervous system to respond differently to the stressors themselves.
For the situations that you may not be ready to face, or that are overwhelming to your sensory system— we might identify and implement coping skills to manage anxiety and reduce the duration and incapacitation of panic attacks.