Care & Family Relationships
relational therapy that makes space to talk about what isn’t working & dream of what can
You deserve to have
care that is supportive
care that sees you
care that is accommodating
care that allows you to slow down
For disabled adults & caregivers, adult children & their parents, and teen-parent relationships (14+)
Managing distress together often requires readjustment.
Whether chosen, biological, or adoptive family, the reason you’re here is to attempt to repair or resolve what happened.
You may be navigating grief, financial strain, transitions, life events, differences in values, or the impact of past harm. You all may wish things were different with your loved ones, maybe back to the way they were before a diagnosis or life changing circumstance.
By doing relational work together, we are allowing space for new interactions, identities, and norms to form.
I have lived experience as a caregiver to strangers, friends, and family. I am also a relational therapist, meaning I recognize the importance of connection in our lives and am trained in specialized systemic therapy to provide you with support, data, and skills for relational change. We will navigate the current state of the world and your relational histories together to form a grounded approach to change reoccurring patterns. All members of your relationship will benefit from gaining tangible skills and move from relationship stress to living within your authentic values.
Therapy might include the following modalities:
Bowen Family Systems
Structural Family Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Somatic practices
I’m not afraid of the conflict that comes with relationships. Safe conflict and disagreements are a part of connection and invite change.
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I am careful in documentation & navigation of the current political climate. I do not use AI for any kind of note-taking or clinical work. I do not document information about disabilities, neurodivergence, gender, sexuality, or specific traumas.
I also do not document a diagnosis unless there is an agreement between us that you’d like me to for insurance superbill purposes. We will decide together what diagnosis fits what is happening for you.
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Yes - I love working with care relationships. Whether these roles are named, unnamed, assigned, or unassigned. Caregivers and Care receivers often experience stress related to disability, neurodivergence, shame, guilt, feeling like a burden, and navigating expectations.
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Yes - I love working with chosen families, siblings, relatives, adult children and significant caregivers (parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents). Families often are navigating emotional stress, conflict around grief, processing past trauma, and making room for new identities.
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Yes - I love supporting QPRs and friendships. Whether you are coming to process a life change, grief, or reconnect, this is a huge step in honoring your relationship together. We can practice holding difficult conversations, dreaming of a new future, and adjusting for change and individual and collective needs.
I am affirming of queer, trans, ace, and poly identities.
Read more about platonic relationships here.
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Yes - I often work with partners in queer relationships navigating grief, gender, trauma, and disability. We practice tolerating distress, dreaming of a new future, and adjusting for change and individual and collective needs.
I am queer-affirming, trans-affirming, ace-affirming, and poly & kink aware.
Read more about romantic relationships here.
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We’ll work together to understand it - if that’s your goal. If not, know that it’s okay to not know everything. It’s okay to simply sit with the fact that you are feeling pain, and to notice how it might be getting in the way of you living the life you find meaningful.
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Weekly or twice monthly relational therapy can provide a safe space for reconnecting, reworking, and re-imagining your relationships. In sessions, we will draw from each person’s experiences as a way to understand the relationship dynamics. We will move through your emotional experience and welcome sensations, memories, and thoughts as they come.
Relational stress builds up over time. I work with clients who have experienced years of systemic, institutional, relational, and internalized harm that ends up impacting their bodies and minds. We will work collaboratively while implementing real tangible skills to stop conflict loops from escalating and build in tools for repair.
As we get closer to the relationship you desire, we’ll reconnect with the hobbies and passions you once shared, making conversation and connection easier again. If through our work you find that a change in the relationship is needed, we will set goals for how to navigate this together and make space to process the grief that comes with change.