Shame and stigma can permeate every aspect of our lives and make pleasure, love and work challenging, painful and sometimes impossible. Shame and stigma often mask something special and remarkable about a person; talents, identities, ways of living or loving that are unappreciated, misunderstood and even repudiated. Deviance and difference should not be requisites for pain and failure; those qualities can be empowering and liberating. Often, it is a dominant culture that pulls the veil of shame over our eyes and hearts. Our stories and ourselves are worthy of dignity and care, regardless of what we learn from the dominant discourse. As a relationship and individual therapist is affirming of all gender, consensually sexual and romantic presentations and identities; I am sex worker allied and my care is kink/BDSM/ENM informed (and enthusiastic!) and embracing of neurodivergence. My therapeutic stance is non-judgmental, harm reductive and I am committed to challenging anti-fat bias. I hope to empower you to live a life that is authentically yours. I am looking forward to helping you find the strength and inner peace in and out of relationship to both advocate for yourself and to be accountable and compassionate towards others, heal and integrate trauma and to take control as the author of your story.
| Qualifications: | Adler University |
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| Academic Suffixes: | LMFT, MA |
| Expertise: | Anxiety, Autism, Body Positivity, Codependency, Depression, Domestic Abuse, Dual Diagnosis, Other, Other, Infidelity, Life Transitions, Marital and Premarital, Men |