I am a queer, neurodivergent intern therapist who draws on the arts to support clients to build and grow identity, relationships, and community.  My lived experience of the intersection of my identities and community roles has led me to be hungry for exploring how us queer and neurodivergent folks can connect to all forms of art: visual art, dance/movement, music, drama, and bibliotherapy, to reach all our mental health goals while also examining the systems of oppression that influence our health.  No experience as an “official artist or musician” is required!

I employ a relational-cultural, anti-oppressive, trauma-sensitive, and expressive arts approach to support, advocate, and walk beside queer teens and adults within the therapeutic relationship.  We will work collaboratively in our sessions to craft a unique process and structure that is centered around you, your identities, your innate wisdom of yourself, and which includes as much or as little arts-based experiences as you are open to trying.  

I believe that the development of one’s artist identity through the expressive arts therapy process can be a catalyst to exploring one’s queer identity, alleviating pressing symptoms, and gaining insight into distressing situations.  Existing in the non-verbal, sensory, low-skill, high-sensitivity process of the expressive arts offers us a process and experience-based method of engaging in therapy that focuses on working with what emerges, following our intuition, and choosing spontaneity over anxiety.