My Approach

I work with individuals and couples to provide support, heighten awareness, and bring clarity to foster understanding and forward movement. I offer deep attunement, warmth, compassion, patience, and empathy. I offer in-person sessions at my office in SE Portland, as well as telehealth options to meet remotely. Using a process-oriented approach, we will explore unconscious patterns to bring understanding to yourself and your relationships, and notice what may be looking to shift in your life. In addition to talk therapy, I use a variety of methods including dream work, art making, role-play, movement, and constellation work (walking vectors). I work well with those who have had challenging relationships with their families, and I guide and hold space for those to nurture and heal their mother wounds. I offer counseling and guidance navigating relationships, self-love, spirituality, grief, identity, creative practices, sexuality, boundaries, career growth, body symptoms, plant medicine integration, and more.

My Background

I hold a Masters of Arts in Process-Oriented Facilitation and Conflict Studies from the Process Work Institute. I worked as a Community Therapist at River’s Way Community Clinic, 2018-2019, and have been working in private practice in Portland, OR, since 2019. I have 15 years experience in energy work, clairvoyance, and auric reading, completing two trainings in 2009 and 2010.

I founded the online magazine NAILED in 2012, and have published two poetry collections (Fall Ill Medicine (2012), and The Dots Don’t Connect (2003)).

Specialties

Energy work/ Light work

Energy sensitivity and auric reading provide validation of your experiences as well as a unique view. I will work to get energy moving, which is the essence of all energy healing. I believe all people and all things have a spirit, and that our connection to the spirit in ourselves is our key to contacting the spirit in everything else. I believe this sense of connection is an invaluable tool for healing and remembering our wholeness.

Relationships / Couples

I love working with couples, facilitating conflict, and nurturing understanding on all sides. I have experience with partnered and/or married couples, poly/non-monogamy, and non-romantic relationship conflict. Through relationships we get to know ourselves more fully. We get to experience love, joy, excitement, but also pain, conflict, and confusion. When I facilitate relationship conflict, either with an individual or with both parties, there is a trove of valuable information in all that arises, which we will use to heal old dynamics and seed new growth.

Dream work

Dreaming is a part of waking life as well as sleeping life; it holds useful information from our unconscious often about areas of our lives that house our suffering. If you have a recurring dream, or a dream that heavily sticks with you, we will work together to unlock the hidden gifts and messages waiting there for you. Through process-oriented techniques, we will explore your high and low dreams and what is looking to happen next in your life.

LGBTQ+

I am passionate about serving fellow queer folx. Regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, we deserve to bring our whole selves to all areas of our lives, and I offer extra support navigating issues that may arise in mainstream society as well as within the LGBTQQIP2SAA community.