You are a bad boss being, and I want you to feel supported as you face your everyday challenges.
🖤 My passion is wellness and community mental health.
🖤 I am dedicated to holding space for a multitude of paradigms. I continually strive to have greater cultural humility and respect the reality of the person sitting in front of me.
🖤 I am dedicated to offering neurodiversity-affirming
and gender-affirming care.
It is my hope that through your own empowerment, you will be inspired to advocate within your communities for systems that reflect the beauty and awe of every person.
How my story relates to my services
I enjoy helping people find accessible and flexible tools for self regulation in everyday situations.
Increasing the time I spend in a regulated state has been a priority for me since I started my journey of recovery 19 years ago.
I have found it essential to develop a deep understanding of my nervous system. This has been critical to more harmoniously tolerating the sensory experience of being human, as well as being neuro-divergent.
My journey and passion for understanding nervous system regulation techniques has been taken to a new depth as I parent an autistic child.
I believe that a regulated mind-body union occurs in relationships with others. When you feel seen, heard, and celebrated for who you are in that exact moment, you experience a newfound confidence in yourself and a sense of worthiness in life.
The founder of the action method psychodrama, J.L. Moreno, believed that many of our wounds and psychological issues stem from interactions we have had in relationship to others. As a result the path to transformational healing involves reparation in relationship to others. This is the perspective from which I approach my work with clients.
I have a deep passion for supporting queer and trans+ individuals as they navigate the journey of building a family.
As a mother within a queer family structure and the daughter of a gay, genderqueer father, this cause is particularly close to my heart.
It is paramount to me that queer families have a place in mainstream society, receive the support needed to achieve greater equity, and are celebrated at every milestone of their unique journeys.
I aim to leverage my passions to empower communities by promoting a culture of celebration and affirmation for every individual. My hope is for this attitude to be infused into the various systems that shape our society on a daily basis.
May we all experience a sense of worthiness, celebration, and affirmation within our world, workplaces, healthcare systems, educational institutions, and families.
I started my educational pursuits focused on macro level healing with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Urban Studies from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.
During my studies I was struck by a quote from Mother Theresa in which she said, “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family”.
I realized that I have an opportunity to greatly impact communities by focusing care on individuals. As a result, I went on to pursue a Masters of Arts in Counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, NM. I have since held a mental health license in the state of New Mexico since 2011.
