My approach to therapy

I really believe that fostering a space for vulnerability, trust, and curiosity is key to meaningful therapy work. As a therapist, I enjoy taking time to build rapport and to develop a rhythm and flow together with clients in our initial sessions together. It’s important for me to really get you, and for you to get a sense for me, as well.

I offer an open, curious, and humble approach to knowing and engaging with you and the ways your multi-faceted identities and experiences impact your understanding of yourself, your relationship to others, and our larger social systems. Ultimately, I believe you are the expert on your experience, and my hope is that we can establish the necessary trust in order to engage in meaningful collaboration together.

I aim to show up as authentically as possible, which also means taking note of my boundaries and conveying with transparency what I can provide in a therapy relationship. In working together, my hope is that you will feel held and supported in a process of reflection, healing and growth.

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Thanks for considering working together, whether you’re new to therapy, dipping back in after time away, or someone with lots of therapy experience looking to do some work in a new way.

Lived and Professional Experiences

I am queer, I am trans, I am Jewish (Ashkanazi) and white, and I am a step-parent. I have experience that ranges from working in the service industry, in medical institutions, and in the non-profit sector. I have also had my own experience as a client working with a therapist. I grew up in Wisconsin, and moved to Massachusetts in 2010. And, here I’ve been for the past 15+ years!

Professionally, I have bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Women/Gender Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have a master’s degree in social work (MSW) from Simmons College (now University). I’ve been independently licensed in Massachusetts (LICSW) since 2017 and have experience working as a social worker in medical settings specializing in sexual health, infectious disease and transgender medicine, in addition to my current full-time outpatient therapy practice.

Specializing in

  • I have lived experience with LGBQ/T and Jewish identity and really enjoy working with others in these communities.

    I also have experience supporting clients with various aspects of identity exploration and development related to neurodivergence, racial, class, disability, and polyamorous identities.

  • I work individually with clients, sometimes in conjunction with those also in relational/couple’s therapy, largely drawing from attachment and nervous system frameworks to help identify and shift relational patterns of miscommunication, disconnection, and conflict.

    I have experience working with clients across a spectrum of relationship structures, including non monogamy and polyamory.

  • I really enjoy working with those who are seeking support related to parenting roles and dynamics.

    I also have experience working with those navigating blended families and the different relational dynamics involved.

  • Trauma, whether a one-time event or ongoing, is not just about the events themselves, but is also about the legacy of the event on our understanding of ourselves, relationships with others, and physiological, psychological, and emotional concepts and responses to danger/safety in the present.

    Other types of stuckness often include depression or anxiety and their pervasive symptoms feeling overwhelming.

    I utilize nervous system and attachment frameworks, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and EMDR therapy tools and modalities for this type of trauma and anxiety/depression symptom resolution work.

Therapy Modalities

  • Nervous System Tools & Frameworks

    An approach that focuses on understanding our felt sense of threat/safety responses and the ways these patterns of responses have impacted our capacity to connect to ourselves and to others. Through the use of embodied responses, resources, and modulation, we can feel more attuned and able to process distress and trauma in new ways.

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

    A body-oriented (somatic) therapy approach aimed at addressing neurobiological and body-based effects of high distress and trauma.

    https://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/about/

    Currently in level 1 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy training.

  • EMDR

    A form of therapy used to treat trauma and high distress-related conditions. It involves bi-lateral stimulation helping the brain to first desensitize (exposure) to memories and then to reprocess them to reduce their emotional impact in the present.

    https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr-therapy-layperson/

    Completed EMDRIA approved basic Training.