General Services
| UNIT | WHAT THE WORK LOOKS LIKE |
|---|---|
| Individual | Getting quiet enough to hear what you actually want, not what you were taught to want |
| Couple / Polycule | Facilitating conflict and closeness without anyone losing themselves |
| Uncoupling | Ending or restructuring a relationship without contorting into a role that isn't true anymore |
| Family | Building relationships where every generation gets to be authentically themselves |
| Friendship | The same repair and renegotiation work as couples counseling ; friendships just don't usually get therapy for it |
| Community / Organization | Consulting on conflict and dissatisfaction in schools and organizations--same rupture-and-repair work, larger scale |
| Something that doesn't have a name yet | The work adapts to whatever unit you're in — you don't have to fit a category on this list to belong here |
counseling
Private · Clinical · For people in Washington
Together we'll explore what you're carrying, whether that's grief, burnout, the invisible weight of parenthood, the pressure to shrink yourself to fit into spaces that weren't built to hold your full self, the toll of showing up every day inside a broken system, generational patterns you're ready to break, or simply the exhaustion of trying to hold everything together. Sessions are collaborative. You set the pace. I follow your lead. This is formal clinical work, which means it's structured, confidential, and held to the full standard of care you deserve.
What this looks like: individual sessions, couples and polycule work, support through uncoupling, family sessions in whatever shape your family is taking, and repair work for friendships that need it. Whatever unit you're showing up in, you don't disappear into it. The goal is always for you to stay yourself inside it.
Investment: $195/session, private pay only
NOTE on insurance: Even therapists who do take insurance can't bill it for couples work, conflict resolution, or general relational repair the way people assume. Insurance requires an "identified patient" with a diagnosable condition; relationship strain on its own doesn't meet that bar. So going private-pay isn't really me opting out of something available to you elsewhere. It's that the kind of unit-based work I do was never something insurance was built to cover in the first place.
Currently accepting referrals. Reach out to get started.
Currently providing telehealth and in-person services in North Seattle
community healing workshops
Group format · Psychoeducational · Community-centered
These workshops are not group therapy (although they can be very therapeutic). They're something different and, for many people, something more immediately accessible. They're structured healing spaces built around a shared experience, where the community itself becomes the resource.
You'll leave with real tools, real skills, and more people in your village—folks carrying something similar, who you don't have to explain yourself to.
Workshops are available in a private space that allows for confidential processing or hosted directly with your organization — whether that's professional development for a school, leadership training for a nonprofit, or building this kind of space into any team or community that wants it.
See the Workshops & Events Page for current offerings and formats.
School & Organizational Consultation AND Community repair
I partner with administrators, district leadership, business owners, and organizational teams to build systems that genuinely support the mental health and wellbeing of the people they serve, without losing sight of who needs support right now. Drawing on Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), restorative practice, and anti-oppressive practice, I help organizations move from good intentions to concrete, sustainable action. I provide the same rupture-and-repair work as the rest of what I do, just at the scale of a team or system instead of one relationship.
Conflict Resolution and Community Repair Work: That work isn't only forward-looking. When something's already happened and a team or community needs to work through it directly, I also provide conflict resolution and community repair.
Available for professional development and ongoing embedded partnerships.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of counseling do you do?
I'm trained in a range of modalities: Liberation Psychotherapy, Narrative Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Restorative Practices, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Positive Psychology, and Psychodynamic Therapy, and I use them eclectically, meeting you and your unit wherever you actually are, individually and together. Relational? Practical? Concrete? Ready to shift your whole frame? I've got a way in for that.
My work is relational at its core: with a partner, a family, a friendship, a community or system, or the relationship you have with yourself. Individual sessions are one entry point into that work; the focus stays on the relationships and the repair, not symptoms living inside one person. Through a decolonizing, culturally responsive lens, the goal isn't just symptom relief — it's giving you real tools for healing and empowerment, and helping you all build or strengthen the village around you. Sometimes that looks like partnering with other professionals in your life so your healing has support beyond our sessions. You all lead. I'm here to back you up.
Relational repair is also part of why I'm private-pay. Insurance is built around treating a diagnosis in one identified person — it was never built to recognize the relationship itself as what needs care, no matter which therapist you see.
What does "decolonizing therapy" mean?
Decolonizing therapy means questioning who traditional mental health frameworks were built for. Many healing models default to the narratives of specific groups — often White, neurotypical, able-bodied, male, heterosexual, and cisgender people — and treat that as the standard for everyone. Without examining that default, therapy can unintentionally blame you for who you are or how you think, instead of recognizing your reaction as a legitimate response to systems that don't see you, or that harm you in ways our society treats as normal.
In our work together, we can look at how to keep those very real reactions from turning into self-blame or self-criticism. And we can use the agency you do have to shift what's actually within your control, even while the wider systems around you are still catching up to recognizing your story.
Do you take insurance?
I'm private-pay only and don't bill insurance directly. Even therapists who do take insurance can't bill it for couples work, conflict resolution, or relational repair work more generally, or community/organizational consulting the way people assume. Insurance requires an "identified patient" with a diagnosable condition; relationship strain on its own doesn't meet that bar, and consulting isn't a clinical service at all. So going private-pay isn't really me opting out of something available to you elsewhere. It's that relational repair was never something insurance was built to cover in the first place.
Do you offer sliding scale?
I know we can all fall on hard times, and $195 per session can be tough for some people. I do offer a limited number of sliding-scale spots during times of economic hardship. Let's talk about it together and come up with a plan that works.
How do the psychoeducation classes differ from group counseling?
Group counseling is formal clinical treatment. It's led by a licensed therapist (me!), built around your individual treatment goals, and held to the same confidentiality and standard-of-care requirements as individual therapy, including a clinical diagnosis, if applicable, and a formal therapeutic relationship.
Psychoeducation classes aren't therapy, though they can be genuinely therapeutic. They're structured around a shared experience such as burnout, generational patterns, the exhaustion of holding up broken systems, and the community itself becomes part of the healing, not just me. There's no diagnosis, no individual treatment plan, and no expectation that you're 'in treatment.' You come as you are, with people who get it, and leave with real tools and real relationships.