I work with children, adolescents, adults and families, and have received extensive training in client-centered therapeutic interventions to help individuals and families find relief from grief, trauma, depression, anxiety, addiction, and other forms of emotional suffering. I am especially sensitive to the ways oppression (racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, heterosexism, classism, anti-Semitism, ableism, etc.) impact mental health and well-being.

Although I enjoy working with a wide variety of people, I specialize in counseling adolescents, young adults, artists, musicians, performers, activists, GLBTQ folks, gender variant people, and those who are living outside of the mainstream.

In addition, I have specialized training and experience working with families created through adoption and foster care, with a focus on parents who choose to foster or adopt older children and teens.  I help prepare parents to foster or adopt, navigate systems, and cope with the day-to-day challenges of raising older children with traumatic backgrounds and challenging behaviors.  I offer family therapy to adoptive and foster families to address attachment and behavior issues, as well as cultural issues that emerge around transracial adoption and foster care.  I also work with adopted/foster kids, teens and adults to help them resolve trauma and explore identity and cultural issues unique to those who do not grow up with their biological family. 

I also have extensive experience working with those impacted by domestic violence or emotionally abusive relationships and offer supportive, nonjudgmental counseling to people who are still in abusive situations, trying to leave them, recovering from abuse, or feeling like something isn’t quite right about the power dynamic in their relationship.  I also work with children and adolescents who have witnessed domestic violence.