This wild, painful, beautiful human experience can be a lot to process on our own. It can feel supportive and be empowering to sort it out with a compassionate mental health professional. All humans hold the potential for creative healing engagement with themselves, in relationships, and in the world. I welcome the opportunity to work with clients of all backgrounds and identities. I am experienced in supporting clients grappling with some of the many challenges of being human in our complex world:

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Attachment issues

• Sensitivity challenges

• Relationship to body

• Systemic oppression

• Intergenerational trauma

• Personal & professional relationships

• Emerging adulthood

• Divorce & relationship transitions

• Fertility & infertility

• Perimenopause & menopause

• Loss & grief

• Prenatal, pregnancy, postnatal experiences

• Motherhood & parenthood

• Career & livelihood

• Creating purpose & meaning

• Spirituality

Please reach out if you have any questions or curiosities about how we might collaborate together in service of your healing process and your unique mental health and well-being needs.

Many artists in the 1960s, from all around the world, were interested in the idea and experience of the blurry line between art and life. This concept has always deeply resonated with me as someone who identifies as an artist. Our creative practices and our lived lives are intertwined and ever-evolving. This can foster a life lived deeply with meaning, and it can also present some challenges. I specialize in helping artist-identified clients sort through these challenges:

• Intersectional identities

• Relationship to resources

• Creative work & making a living

• Self-esteem & self-compassion

• Competition & collaboration

• Challenges related to creative process

• Sustaining motivation

• Fear in the making of the work

• Personal & professional relationships

• Navigating difficult content in the work

• Trauma as source material

• Challenges with vices

• Performance anxiety

• Imposter syndrome

• The art of failure

• Defining what success means to you

This is not art therapy, but rather, therapy for people who identify as artists, including: visual artists, writers, poets, musicians, filmmakers, dancers, choreographers, performing artists, designers, and artists engaged in emergent creative disciplines.

Mental Health & Well-Being Workshops for Undergraduate & Graduate Students in Creative Disciplines

I have been lucky to be an art student, and I have had the privilege to be a professor of art and design. Both roles are immersed in an exciting process of discovery, and a not-to-be-dismissed sense of confusion and chaos in the process. It is no secret that college and grad students have been struggling with their mental health in recent years. It is also my belief that those studying in the creative disciplines deserve a nuanced approach to mental health support that thoughtfully considers the creative population’s unique well-being needs.

If you are an educator or a student in a creative discipline, consider hosting a virtual mental health and well-being workshop for your program or class. You might also consider a workshop for you and your teaching colleagues, to help you feel more prepared to support your students in their artist identity formation and adjacent mental health challenges. Feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions and curiosities, or to request a document that outlines what I am currently offering in way of support for academics and their students in creative disciplines.

Fertility & Making Family Support Group

The decision and process to create a family can be a roller coaster of heartache and anticipation, loss and longing. There are so many different ways to make a family, and many of these ways can be painfully challenging. If you are experiencing fertility challenges, in the process of fertility treatments, Queer and needing family making support, and/or weighing the many options for making a family, this FREE support group may be for you. The intention for this group is to connect, witness, and be witnessed for support in your process and a shared knowing with others. Please reach out for a free consultation call if this resonates with you.