For most of my life I have been seeking the connections between peace, relationships, and community. I am passionate about helping you make sense of your struggles, hopes, and strengths, by looking within—to repeated patterns, critical thoughts, and unfinished business; and without—to your identities, relationships, and society.

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I hold a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute, which understands mental health from a depth and soul perspective. I am also a certified Hakomi therapist, where the focus is on one’s present-moment embodied experience. Working with me will include periods of mindful reflection, active inquiry, tuning in to body sensations and emotions, and working with the present to understand the influence of the past.

                                                     

Overall, my approach is collaborative and rooted in curiosity and kindness—toward all parts of ourselves—in the interest of aiding you to reach a greater sense of wholeness.

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In my practice, I am committed to inclusivity and strive to provide care that meets and acknowledges your needs, especially as related to your experience of race; ethnicity; gender; age; abilities; sexual orientation; size; neurodivergence; national origin/indigenous roots; religious or spiritual beliefs; socioeconomic, relationship, or immigration status; and all identities that are important to you.

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be softer with you.

you are a breathing thing.

a memory to someone.

a home to a life.

          — nayyirah waheed

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About Me

I am a white, bi, cis woman (she/they) married to a Filipino cis man, mother of two kids, and a LGBTQIA-affirmative and neurodiversity-affirmative therapist. I live and work on the traditional land of the Duwamish People past and present, and honor—with gratitude and reparations—the land itself and the Duwamish Tribe.

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I hold a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute with an emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical Counseling, and Depth Psychology, and I am certified by the Seattle Hakomi Education Network as a therapist and teacher in Hakomi therapy. I have further personal and professional work in Internal Family Systems (IFS), nonviolent communication, attachment/development (The Neufeld Institute), Buddhist meditation (Insight/Theravadan tradition), Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa Menakem, and in unpacking whiteness/white-bodied ancestral healing with the Liberation Academy and others. My undergraduate degree is in cultural anthropology with an emphasis on gender studies and my previous work in the world was in book publishing and writing and editing.