My services
Grief Therapy
Unlike what is frequently assumed in pop culture, grieving the loss of a loved one is not a five-stages-of-grief experience. in fact, Kubler-Ross created the stages of grief for those in their dying process, not those left in the wake of their death. Late in her career, Kubler-Ross spoke out again the overgeneralization of that practice.
Grief is a highly avoided topic in our culture, and those who are grieving are often left not only grieving their loved one, but grieving the way in which they engaged in the world before their loss. Much of my work is aligned with Megan Devine’s grief work, and I highly recommend her resources for clients- from her writing workshops, her documentary, and her books. Unlike other therapeutic work, grief work is not the Hero’s Journey of making meaning and growth through harrowing experience.
Grief is painful. The pain of grief doesn’t go away and we cannot transform that pain, but the suffering we experience can be transformed.
This work is relational, attachment based work, as personal and individualized as the relationship you have with the one you have lost.
50 mins | $200
Performing Artists
Depthful, relational and sometimes embodied, this work is focused on the stresses of working within industries that demand parts of yourself which, at times, feels overwhelming.
From the student struggling with difficult teachers and intensive programs, the difficulties of working gig-to-gig in an overbooked schedule, the hustle of putting your work into the world and balancing your own needs, the overwhelm of performance anxiety, to the demands of public persona and the specific needs and challenges of reaching heights in your career, I provide a grounded, real space to navigate wherever you are in your career.
My approach is psychodynamic, relational and insightful for helping you set boundaries, amplify your strengths, and challenge you where you need.
50 mins | $200
LGBTIQQA+ Community
I provide a nurturing, warm, welcoming and empathic space for exploring identity, relational challenges, and specific needs for individuals within the LGBTIQQA+ community.
Whether wishing to explore using expressive arts therapy approaches, the embodied practices of drama therapy, or traditional talk therapy from the psychodynamic lens, I follow my client’s lead and help them move through their personal challenges one mutual step at a time.
50 mins | $200
Supervision + Consultation
I am an IMFT-S (Independently Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor) for the state of Ohio, and provide clinical supervision to practitioners working towards their independent licensure.
I am an experienced LMFT in CA who has provided individual and group supervision to graduate students, MFT Associates, community mental health and academic leadership.
I am a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor who provides supervision to those interested in pursuing the rigorous steps to become a Registered Play Therapist with the Association for Play Therapy nationwide.
Additional experience includes continuous quality improvement of mental health documentation, assistant direction and direction of community mental health organizations, academic course instructing, significant leadership experience, drama therapy performance direction, and theatre arts performance direction.
50 mins | $150
Child Therapy & Family Therapy
Play Therapy is the evidence-based developmental approach working with children ages 3—12 years old by trained professionals. Play Therapy is not the applied use of play with the goal of getting a child to talk about their problems as an adult would in therapy sessions. Play is the intervention in child therapy.
Child play therapy is a way of being with the child that honors their unique developmental level and looks for ways of helping in the “language” of the child – play.
A Play Therapist acknowledges the expression of the child in the therapy room is a witnessing of their inner world, and works with the child’s parents to better understand their child’s needs through the language of play. I enter into the child’s world in play to allow the child to teach me what their experience is. As the therapist, I do not teach a child how to be in our world. I acknowledge that every behavior is an expression of a need, and I seek to understand a child’s needs to help those in the child’s world get those needs met outside the therapy
50 mins | $200
Neurodivergent/Highly Sensitive People
Neurodiverse is a term that describes the diversity and variation of cognitive functioning in people. It’s typically used to describe neurodivergent people.
The term “Neurodivergent” identifies a difference in cognitive functioning that is not considered “typical”. In my experience, I’ve realized that “atypical” cognitive functioning is likely more typical than we think.
Neurodivergence is an identity, not a disorder. Each of our sensory systems have preferences and needs, and those vary greatly from human to human. If our sensory systems don’t communicate with each other, we are likely to also experience emotional dysregulation and upset.
We have sensory differences, not deficits. Let’s learn about your sensory profile and needs, and how it relates to how you relate to yourself and others.
50 mins | $200
Groups
Most of my groups are drama therapy groups, practicing embodied, relational and playful ways to address commonalities within group participants. Whether its an introduction to the form itself and working with anything group participants bring into the space, or focused on a specific need within the community, group spaces are often validating, normalizing and empowering spaces for folks to discover more about themselves and each other.
I’ve also held parent support groups and group filial therapy series in the past, and would like to offer those again in the future if there is community interest.
Groups can be an alternative if sliding scale individual work still feels out of your reach, but you’d like consistent support.
60 mins | $50 per person
