About My Approach

What does LGBTQ+ affirming therapy mean?

LGBTQ+ affirming therapy means that all identities, expressions, and experiences are welcomed without question or judgement. I am a queer therapist myself, currently pursuing my PhD in Depth Psychology with a dissertation focused on gender identity and authenticity. This is not a checkbox. It is the foundation of how I work.

Do you work with transgender and nonbinary clients?

Yes, and I provide free gender-affirming letters for HRT and surgery at no charge, in accordance with WPATH Standards of Care. This begins with a complimentary 30-minute readiness assessment and gender history consultation. Note that not all physicians require a therapist letter for HRT, so it is worth confirming with your provider before requesting one.

What is the difference between counseling and therapy?

No difference. They are two words for the same thing.

Do you diagnose or prescribe medication?

I don’t prescribe psychiatric medication, but I can help you explore patterns, symptoms, and diagnostic criteria as part of our work together. If a formal diagnosis, medication evaluation, or prescription is needed, I encourage you to work with your PCP or a psychiatric prescriber you trust. It’s your body, your choice—and you deserve to be an informed, active participant in your care.

What is a therapy intensive and who is it for?

A therapy intensive is a curated 2 to 3 hour session designed around a specific concern, threshold, or season of life that deserves more than a standard session. It may include talk therapy, dream work, creative arts, somatic movement, tarot or deck spreads, and an integrative closing discussion. The structure is built collaboratively between you and me. Intensives begin with a consultation where you share your focus, and I propose a structure from there.

Do you work with spirituality in therapy?

Yes, and it is one of the things I do most naturally. I help clients deconstruct and rebuild what spirituality means to them, whether that involves leaving behind a religious framework that no longer fits, exploring archetypes and the unconscious, or simply finding a spiritual scaffold that supports their healing. No particular belief system is required or assumed.

What is ecopsychology and how does it relate to therapy?

Ecopsychology is a field rooted in the principle that humans are not separate from nature but a part of it. I weave this into my work and my healing retreats, inviting clients into a relationship with the natural world as a source of grounding, healing, and reconnection. You too, are nature.

Do you incorporate social justice into therapy?

Yes. Because your mental health doesn’t exist in a vacuum. We are shaped by the systems we live inside—racism, capitalism, colonization, sexism, gender oppression, ableism, and other forces that influence our bodies, relationships, identities, and sense of belonging.

I don’t believe therapy should ask you to simply “cope better” with systems that are harming you. Sometimes healing means understanding how those systems have shaped your story, recognizing what you’ve internalized, and deciding what you want to keep—and what you’re ready to put down.

Do you work with internalized racism?

Yes—and I believe this work belongs in the therapy room. For white clients, we can thoughtfully explore internalized racism, privilege, racial conditioning, and how these intersect with trauma, shame, relationships, identity, and belonging.

This isn’t about guilt, shame, or being “perfect.” It’s about becoming more conscious of what you’ve inherited, taking responsibility for what is yours, and creating room to choose differently.

I’m committed to anti-racism and multiculturalism, and to making space for perspectives historically marginalized within psychology. Awareness can be uncomfortable. It can also be liberating.

Who are you—and why do you share your identities?

Because I believe you deserve to know something about the person sitting across from you. In the spirit of transparency and ethical, inclusive practice—not virtue signaling—I don’t believe therapists enter the room without identities, histories, privileges, or experiences of our own.

I’m a white, queer woman with a complicated family history that includes trauma, addiction, and abuse. I was raised partly Jewish and partly Catholic, and I’m ethnically Italian, though there are parts of my ancestry and family story I don’t fully know. I move fluidly between femme and them identity. I also hold straight-, cis-passing, and hetero-relational-passing privileges. And I believe queerness is about more than what others can see—it can be a deeply felt way of moving through the inner world, even when the outside world reads us differently.

I share this not because I assume our experiences are the same—they aren’t—but because I believe honesty about what we know, what we don’t, and what we’ve inherited matters, especially in work involving identity, culture, power, and belonging.

I am fluid and blooming, too. My hope is that therapy gives you room to discover all the ways you are still becoming—and to bloom into yourself.

Are you LGBTQ+ affirming?

Absolutely—and “affirming” is only the beginning. I’m a queer therapist with a particular passion for transgender, nonbinary, and genderqueer liberation. Your gender and sexuality aren’t problems to solve. Therapy can be a place to question inherited expectations, reclaim your story, and build a life that feels genuinely yours.