Yes to both. Short-term work is usually best if you’re wanting to focus on one particular area, experience, or goal, whereas long-term work allows for more breadth and depth in subject matter and in our relationship. If you want to do deep but short-term work, you may want to consider intensive IFS sessions.

I aim to be present, warm, and authentic with you. I am ready to hold deep pain with you as well as to collaboratively titrate how often and to what extent we do this. Clients have described me as caring, non-judgmental, and funny.

Short answer: I’m happy to co-create a session container with you as we go. Long answer: at the start of the session, I will ask how you’re feeling. Depending on whether you are seeking a specific approach, what you’re wanting to explore together, and on your preferences, I may facilitate you connecting with different parts of your internal system; I may guide you to connect with your experience as you’re sharing with me; we may have a more conversational flow; or a mix of those options. I will center how you feel.

It depends on what you need! I am glad to provide guidance and guardrails while continuing to collaborate with you. I am also glad to follow your lead.

No, I use approaches that prioritize being in connection with your own experiences, being in relationship with one another, and your own sense of agency. If you specifically want an approach that draws heavily from cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure response prevention, or something similar, I may not be the best fit. That being said, if you are interested in dialectical behavior therapy, I may weave some aspects of it in.

I started using IFS in 2019. I completed Level 1 training with the IFS Institute in 2021, Level 2 training in 2023, and Level 3 training in 2025. I have also served as a teaching assistant for nine IFS Foundations Courses for Trans, Non-binary, and Queer Clinicians beginning in 2022. Throughout this time, I have also received regular IFS-focused consultation, taken more specific IFS trainings, and read about IFS. In other words, I feel deeply rooted in IFS and have used it with a wide range of people in many different areas.

Yes, absolutely. I have worked with people with all of these experiences and will be glad to explore what attuned and appropriate care for you would be.

Yes. As long as I am competent in supporting the work you’re wanting to do, we can treat each other with mutual respect, and the logistics of scheduling and fees work out, I’ll be glad to work with you.

While therapy through insurance can be more affordable, it can also be more constrained in a variety of ways for both clients and providers. In choosing an out-of-pocket, sliding-scale model, I am prioritizing access for those most marginalized on the lower-cost end of the scale, while also prioritizing your own decision making and agency over your care. This additionally allows me to focus more of my time on direct work with clients rather than on administrative work. I acknowledge that this limits access to therapy with me for some and that ideally, high-quality therapy that truly centers your needs would be freely available for everyone. This is how I am navigating the not-ideal reality of the current system.

The cost of therapy covers a lot. In this case, people paying higher fees allow me to sustainably provide lower-cost sessions, ensuring a more equitable fee structure. Beyond this, here is what your payments cover: self-employment and business taxes; licensure fees; business expenses such as an electronic health record; my income and benefits; and expenses that are important for me to provide resourced and competent care, such as trainings and consultation.