I find it helpful to explore how your relationships (with yourself, family, friends, and community) affect you. Additionally, I seek to understand you through the intersections of your many identities (race, gender, sexuality, neurotype, ability, class, body size, etc) and broach conversations about systems and structures of power and oppression in our work.

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I am an imperfect human, just like everyone. While I do have extra training and tools to be able to help you navigate difficulties, I don’t hold all of the answers. You are the expert on you, and it does require significant effort to engage in counseling and create change. I’m here to help you do that work.

 

Social Justice Statement
As a counselor I understand it as my ethical duty to make mental health care accessible to communities that are underserved. It is my belief that mental health care is a basic human right and necessity. I seek to break down barriers that prevent marginalized communities from receiving culturally appropriate services. One way I do this is through being knowledgeable about the communities which I serve, including doing my own research. I believe that clients are not responsible for educating their counselors on their community’s experiences with oppression, including racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism and classism. Another way I practice is by seeking to understand my clients as individuals within the context of their environment. All individuals are unique and no one’s experience will be the same as another’s simply because they share similar identities. Finally, I take action, which includes having difficult conversations around oppression, protesting injustice, and financially supporting social justice causes.