Practice
Queer, trans, fat, neurodivergent, and post-religious adults—often people living at the intersections of several of those experiences.
These experiences are often intertwined. They are part of the context a person brings to therapy: what has been punished or medicalized, the assumptions other people make, which relationships feel safe or complicated, and how much translation it can take to move through an ordinary day.
My job is to understand that context well enough that you do not have to spend half the hour supplying footnotes.
Your reason for coming may be a relationship, burnout, a difficult decision, a history that has started showing up in the present, or a life that looks fine from the outside and feels hard to live inside. Identity and context help us understand what that problem is made of.
Questions about executive function, sensory strain, body size, family obligation, gender, sexuality, culture, faith, disability, money, or a medical system belong in the clinical picture when they are relevant. We can be precise about where a problem lives: in you, between people, in a system, or in the irritating overlap of all three.
HAES means Health at Every Size®. I am HAES-affirming because therapy does not need to enlist in the project of making someone smaller.
We can take health, food, movement, disability, medical care, body image, and body distress seriously without making weight loss the measure of whether therapy is working.
Taken together, these patterns can shape safety, relationships, the body, and decision-making long after beliefs have changed. More on therapy for religious trauma and religious harm.