Areas of focus
I work with people navigating complex trauma, relationship challenges and abuse, LGBTQIA+ identity exploration and grief. These experiences often shape how you relate to your body, your sense of safety and your relationships. My role is to offer a steady, collaborative space where we move at a pace that feels right for you.
My approach blends somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), relational cultural therapy and ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP). I use these modalities because they support the emotional, relational and somatic layers of the concerns I specialize in without forcing change or rushing the process.
Trauma, abuse & relational harm
Long term or relational trauma can leave you feeling overwhelmed, shut down, hypervigilant or disconnected from your own needs. My approach focuses on rebuilding safety and helping your nervous system find steadier ground.
Somatic therapy helps you reconnect with your body in ways that feel manageable. IFS gives us a gentle way to meet the protective parts that formed in response to harm. Relational cultural therapy helps untangle patterns of disconnection with yourself and others. When you feel stuck or weighed down by survival patterns, KAP can sometimes create openings that make the work feel more accessible.
Relationship challenges & abuse
Experiences of manipulation, instability or coercion can make it hard to trust yourself, set boundaries or feel clear about what you want. Together, we can work toward clarity, steadiness and reconnecting with your own internal signals.
Somatic work helps your body shift out of survival mode. IFS supports the parts of you that learned to accommodate, appease or disappear. Relational cultural therapy helps you understand relational patterns and rebuild a sense of agency. KAP can offer perspective when you feel stuck in old dynamics or overwhelmed by painful experiences.
LGBTQIA+ identity
Identity exploration can be expansive, and it can also carry the weight of family, cultural or religious messages that weren’t safe. You might be navigating questions about identity, transition, shame or chronic invalidation.
Somatic therapy supports embodiment and feeling more at home with yourself. IFS helps meet parts shaped by fear or internalized messages with compassion. Relational cultural therapy supports building relationships, internal and external, that feel aligned and affirming. KAP can deepen self understanding and soften shame that’s been carried for a long time.
Grief & loss
Grief isn’t linear. It can feel heavy, disorienting or unpredictable, whether you’re grieving a person, a relationship, a version of yourself or a major life transition.
Somatic therapy offers grounding when emotions feel overwhelming. IFS helps us meet the parts carrying guilt, longing, anger or numbness. Relational cultural therapy supports staying connected to yourself and others through the disorientation. KAP can offer moments of relief or perspective when grief feels stuck or unmoving.
Why these modalities
I use these approaches because they work well together. Somatic therapy helps your body find safety. IFS helps you understand and care for the parts of you shaped by harm or pressure. Relational cultural therapy supports connection and clarity in relationships. KAP can create openings when you feel stuck or weighed down.
Together, they support growth and transformation that are paced by your system, grounded in consent and responsive to the emotional, relational and somatic layers of trauma, identity and loss.