Unfurl. Untangle. Thrive.
Care, to me, means presence without pressure. I bring a trauma-informed, relational approach to therapy that honors your nervous system, your history, and your pace. Guided by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), I help clients move toward what matters most through values, not avoidance. In our work together, you don’t have to perform healing; you get to be met exactly as you are, with compassion, clarity, and curiosity.
I grew up queer in conservative upstate New York, in a world where queer joy felt invisible and survival meant self-editing. There were few role models, and fewer places where my full self could safely exist. That history shaped me. But so did the slow, powerful process of unlearning shame and finding chosen family. I believe community is not just something we build. Community is something we become when we make space for each other to thrive.
My work reflects lived truths: healing is political, joy is resistance, and no one should have to walk it alone. Queer liberation means claiming the body as home in a world that has tried to deny it, and honoring queerness itself as a political act of presence, desire, and becoming.
My favorite grounding practice is called The Five Senses of Now: name five things you can see, four you can touch, three you can hear, two you can smell, and one you can taste (or wish you could). It’s a sensory ritual that helps you return to presence and is a reminder that the body is not the problem, but the place we begin.
Queer joy is living in my body without apology. It’s choosing pleasure, taking up space, and feeling fully present without shrinking. It means honoring my body as it is, not as it was taught to be. Joy lives in that freedom.