Practicing the art of being human—together.
Therapy with me​
Somatic, relational therapy in Tacoma, WA.
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What sessions are like
​​Our sessions are active, collaborative, and human. We follow the wisdom of your body rather than just the loops in your head.
On any given day, sessions might include:
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Talking things through
I want to understand what’s happening in your life, what matters to you, and what you hope might be different. But I am not a detective, piecing together a complete case file of your history. We will work with your stories, yes, but also with what is happening right now: in your body, in the room, and in the patterns that show up as we talk.
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Following your body’s cues
We may slow down and notice a shift in your breath, track a moment of tension, sensation, or impulse—building your own language for listening to yourself over time.
Experimenting in real time
You may try on a new boundary, a different pace, a truer sentence, or a creative way of expressing something. This isn't role playing. This is trying something different and noticing what happens.
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Making room for surprise
Therapy can be hard. It can also be funny, relieving, strange, and alive.
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Therapy as a creative act
I’m here to help you widen your sense of choice and agency—so you don’t feel like a passenger in your own life.​ ​My style is active, relational, and engaged. ​We don't just talk about change. We practice the feeling of it.
Look. I love language. I believe deeply in the power of words to open new worlds. But many forms of pain do not loosen through insight alone. We don’t think our way out of our habituated ways of being. That is why this is body-first work.
I draw from a few different approaches, depending on what fits you and your nervous system. We will figure out what works for you, and everything happens at the pace of your nervous system.​​​
We follow your body’s pace—not a protocol.​
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Modalities I draw on include:
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Narrative Therapy: shifting the stories that shape your life.
​We look at the stories that have shaped your life, including the ones you learned from family, culture, and oppressive systems. We make room to revise the stories that once protected you but no longer fit, and to craft and breathe life into stories you prefer.
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Somatic Experiencing: working with your nervous system, not just your thoughts.
Together, we listen for what your body has been holding, how your system has adapted, and what helps you feel more regulated, more present, and more able to choose.
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​Lifespan Integration: resetting how your body holds memory.
We gently revisit memories in a way that supports your nervous system in recognizing that those experiences are over, making more room for presence and choice now.
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Experiential Therapy: trying on new ways of being in real time.
We use movement, metaphors, maybe a bit of clay or drawing. I draw on a variety of lineages of creative therapies including psychodrama and art therapy. You don't need to be an artist—this is about using the process, not performing well or making a piece.
Laughter
Because life is heavy, and sometimes a moment of genuine wit is the best way to find air.
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Areas of focus
Queer & Trans Support
Sometimes gender or sexuality is central to the work; sometimes it isn’t. I’m here for your gender journey, for the particular realities of LGBTQ life, and for everything else you may want therapy to hold.
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ADHD & Neurodivergence
Your brain is not broken. We are not here to shame you into becoming more typical. We are here to get curious about what helps you feel regulated, awake to your life, and able to build a life that works for your neurotype.
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Trauma & Stuckness
When you have been surviving for a long time, insight alone often is not enough. Trauma and chronic stress live in the nervous system, not just in your thoughts. Somatic work can help loosen patterns of stuckness, widen your sense of choice, and support a deeper feeling of safety, agency, and home within yourself.
Liberation-Oriented Therapy
Some suffering is personal, and some suffering is shaped by systems that reward disconnection, extraction, and conformity. Therapy shouldn’t teach you to tolerate what harms you—it should support your freedom. My work is rooted in liberation: the belief that you deserve a life that honors your body’s rhythm over the standards of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and other systems that ask you to betray yourself in order to belong.
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Who I work with
I work with people who are ready for change, even if they do not yet know what that change will look like. Many of the people I work with have already done some therapy. They aren't seeking a thoughtful nod as they tell the same story with a slight twist. Instead, they seek a space for transformation to occur.
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I work especially well with people who feel stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed, or out of step with the lives they are living.
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Many of my clients are queer, trans, neurodivergent, creative, in transition, or rethinking old ways of surviving. Some are dealing with trauma, shame, burnout, identity questions, grief, or relationship patterns that no longer fit. Some are simply realizing they want a life that feels more like theirs.
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Some come to therapy because something is wrong. Some come because they want more aliveness, more choice, more connection, or more room to become. I'm here for it all.
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