Outpatient Counseling for Adults
Outpatient Counseling for Adults
Outpatient counseling for adults navigating ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, or their identity.
Specialties & Expertise
Trauma & PTSD
I am honored to hold space for survivors of all traumas. My approach is validating, paced, and centers my clients’ strengths. I am cognizant of the inherent power differential within the counseling relationship, and acknowledge the position that this power differential places survivors (and all clients) in.
While I am unable to undo this power differential on a systemic level, I intend to empower my clients through our counseling relationship. I provide consistency and boundaries, am direct and compassionate, and I obtain informed consent throughout the counseling process.
LGBTQ+ Affirming
I am committed to providing a curious, compassionate, and validating environment for my queer, trans, and non-binary clients. My philosophy and practice is LGBTQIA+ informed, kink-affirming, and sex-positive. I hold experience facilitating psychoeducational workshops on gender identity and sexuality, and enjoy working with clients to explore identity and self-expression.
ADHD, Autism, & AuDHD
I practice using a neuro-affirmative approach. To me, being neuro-affirming means:
Affirming individual differences within the neurodiverse paradigm.
Approaching current and previous coping skills, adaptations, and survival mechanisms with curiosity and empathy— and utilizing a strengths-based lens to amplify and uplift inherent and learned strengths.
Believing in and learning from clients’ lived experience.
Amplifying knowledge, experience, and literature from neurodiverse researchers and clinicians.
Welcoming open, direct, and honest feedback from my clients.
Setting and modeling boundaries within the therapeutic relationship.
Making a conscious choice to use “Autism” as opposed to “Autism Spectrum Disorder.” This language is intended to center Autistic folks’ experiences and to de-pathologize neurodiversity.
*On medical documentation, if diagnosed, documentation will state “Autism Spectrum Disorder.” This is a requirement asserted by the medical model, and is unfortunately out of my control when working with insurance and required to cite/document DSM-V diagnosis.*
Anxiety
When I am working with clients who have anxiety— my approach is warm, curious, and direct. We might explore attachment and upbringing, determine core beliefs, and examine the meaning and purpose assigned to specific anxiety triggers.
Then, progressively— you might face some of these anxieties head on. Over time, we might re-condition your nervous system to respond differently to the stressors themselves.
For the situations that you may not be ready to face, or that are overwhelming to your sensory system— we might identify and implement coping skills to manage anxiety and reduce the duration and incapacitation of panic attacks.