Your whole story matters.
SPECIALTIES
Neurodivergence
You don’t need a formal diagnosis—or even certainty that you’re neurodivergent—to bring those questions into therapy. I work with people who are autistic, have ADHD, are self-identified or newly diagnosed, or are beginning to wonder whether neurodivergence might help explain some of their experience. My approach is neurodiversity-affirming. Rather than measuring you against neurotypical expectations, we can get curious about how your brain works, how you’ve learned to move through the world, and what you need to feel more at home in your own life.
I hold a Neurodiversity Sexuality Professional Certification from Modern Sex Therapy Institutes, which informs my work with neurodivergent clients around sex, sexuality, relationships, and intimacy.
WHAT WE MIGHT WORK ON
Neurodivergent + Mixed-Neurotype Relationships
Different ways of communicating, processing information, expressing emotion, or noticing what’s happening can create a lot of confusion in relationships—especially when one person’s way of doing things gets treated as the “right” one. I work with neurodivergent and mixed-neurotype relationships to understand how each person experiences the relationship and what may be getting lost in translation.
That can include looking at masking: what it protects, where it gets in the way of connection, and how to become more intentional about when you use it. We can also pay attention to what’s happening in your bodies, not just the words you’re using, and build more confidence in recognizing and responding to each other’s signals.
Sex + Desire
Sex can be difficult to talk about—even with the person you’re having it with. I work with individuals and relationships around differences in desire, changes in sexual interest, pleasure, intimacy, sexual communication, and questions about what they want or enjoy. Desire discrepancy is especially common in my work, and I don’t approach it as a problem where one person wants too much or the other wants too little.
As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, I’m comfortable talking about the parts of sexuality that don’t always feel easy to bring into therapy: kink, fantasies, curiosities, sexual functioning, bodies, sexual health, or simply questions you’ve never had a place to ask. You don’t need to make your sexuality more conventional, explainable, or comfortable for me before we can talk about it.
Consensual Non-Monogamy + Open Relationships
I work with people in consensually non-monogamous relationships, as well as couples who are considering opening their relationship or figuring out what non-monogamy might look like for them. There isn’t one relationship structure that works for everyone, and I don’t approach monogamy—or non-monogamy—as the healthier or more evolved choice.
We can talk about agreements, boundaries, jealousy, communication, sex, attachment, changing needs, and the practical and emotional realities of involving other people in your relationship. If you’re considering opening a relationship, therapy can also be a place to slow down and understand what each of you is hoping for, worried about, or not yet sure about.
Trauma + Rebuilding
Trauma can create a before and an after. Something happens, and the way you understood yourself, other people, or the world may not make sense in quite the same way anymore. I work with people navigating the effects of sexual assault, childhood emotional neglect or abuse, abusive relationships, and other experiences that have disrupted their sense of safety or confidence in their own perceptions.
The work is often slow and intentional. We can pay attention to the ways you learned to protect yourself, get curious about what those patterns are still doing for you, and make room for the feelings and signals you may have learned to question or push away. The goal isn’t to erase what happened or get back to who you were before. It’s to build a story that can hold both the before and the after—and help you feel more grounded in yourself as you move forward.
Betrayal Trauma + Relationship Repair
Betrayal can change the story of a relationship very quickly. An affair, undisclosed sexual behavior, relapse, financial secrecy, or another significant breach of trust can leave both people trying to understand what happened, what was real, and what happens next.
I work with relationships to slow that process down and make room for the impact of the betrayal without assuming that staying together—or separating—is the right outcome. We can work toward understanding the rupture, rebuilding trust where possible, and figuring out what the relationship needs now. Sometimes that means creating something different together. Sometimes it means getting clearer about whether the relationship can or should continue. Either way, the work is about moving forward with a fuller understanding of what happened, what each of you needs, and what comes next.
Grief + Bereavement
Grief doesn’t follow a schedule, and it doesn’t always look the way we expect it to. Losing someone can change your sense of yourself, your relationships, your routines, and the future you thought you were going to have. There can be sadness, anger, relief, guilt, numbness, confusion, or moments when life feels surprisingly ordinary. None of those experiences means you’re grieving incorrectly.
Therapy isn’t about helping you “move on” from someone you’ve lost. It can be a place to make room for the reality of the loss, understand how it has changed you, and find ways to carry the relationship and the grief forward as your life continues.