Connect with your inner steadiness, your self, and others.
The foundation of my practice is consent.
I collaborate with clients to create a flexible treatment responsive to their current needs and experiences. While my approach is co-created with each client, all of my work is informed by the following values and beliefs:
White Body Supremacy Impacts ALL BODIES
An awareness of and sensitivity to the impact of white body supremacy on all bodies. As Resmaa Menakem describes in My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, this means that I strive to maintain attunement to the attitudes, practices, and policies that elevate the white body (of a particular size, ability, religion, class, gender, and sexual orientation) as the standard against which the worth of all people is measured AND how that shows up as an embodied trauma response.
Healing must involve the body
A perspective that mental health healing must involve the body. Our nervous systems have adapted to survive our lived experiences. Healing requires we engage in practices that address the mind and the entire body.
Mindfulness
The ongoing practice of developing mindful awareness of the present moment to increase acceptance and connect us to our emotional, physical, and spiritual experiences.
Therapy is ONE part of healing
A belief that we all function best when we have fulfilling and authentic connections to ourselves, others, and the world. Therapy is one opportunity to build those connections for healing and growth.
Courage
An appreciation for how much courage it takes to fully show up for the work of therapy, which requires curiosity, compassion, and collaboration from therapist and client.
Services
I help clients explore these issues, among others:
Trauma
Impacts of white body supremacy
Anxiety
Depressed mood
Grief and loss (of people, jobs, relationships, etc.)
Dissociation
Chronic illness
Living with disability
Gender identity and/or sexual orientation
Intimacy
Infidelity
Questioning Gender, Sexuality, or Gender Expression
Gender Transitions
Life transitions
Parenting & Childcare labor
Infertility and Queer Family Planning
Separation & Divorce
Attachment concerns
Difficulties in relationships (family, peers, work, romantic)
Perfectionism and being overly self-critical
Self-loathing and self-blame
Low self-esteem
People-pleasing (e.g., difficulty saying “no”)
Excessive guilt
Loneliness
“You don’t need a cure. You are NOT defective.
You need help making space for all of the parts of yourself that were born out of your experiences.”
Anisah Miley
As Quoted in
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