Individual Counseling

While individual therapy can’t magically resolve all your problems or disappear systems of oppression, it can be a life-changing support in tough times and an opportunity to heal, ground, and grow.

  • Aren’t sure of who you are or what you believe anymore

  • Feel guilty, afraid, ashamed, or numb and often don’t know why

  • Are tired of continually being judged and held to impossible expectations —including by yourself

  • Struggle with saying no and knowing what you want

So, if you:

  • Wonder why you just can’t seem to fit in or keep up

  • Can’t seem to relax or enjoy the relationships and activities you cherish

  • Are fed up with being shoehorned into made-up boxes

  • Freeze up when facing decisions

  • Ache to stop holding back parts of who you are

… know that you are not alone.

From my own international upbringing, multicultural identity, and lived experiences of realizing my queerness and neurodivergence as an adult, I understand how lonely, scary, frustrating, and exhausting it can be to feel like you don’t fully belong no matter where you are or what you do.

Unfortunately, including in spaces and with people that are supposed to be the safest.

Because colonialism, white supremacy, and patriarchy have been baked into therapy, psychology, and the mental health care system from the very start, it’s all too common for folks who aren’t thin, cis-het, allo, able, moneyed, and white to have negative experiences — from the downright traumatizing and macro-/microaggression-filled, to the lackluster, uneasy, and ineffective — when seeking out counseling.

It’s not exactly healing or encouraging to deal with things like:

  • TERFs and ace-erasure in queer spaces

  • being shamed in spiritual communities

  • invalidation of your feelings and identities by family members

  • and/or colonialism and white supremacy shaping supposedly therapeutic settings

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Instead of pathologizing understandable behavior, shaming with sermons, or asking you to educate me, I aim to co-create a judgement-free space with you.

I invite you into curiosity about yourself — your feelings, beliefs, relationships — within a compassionate, collaborative, and empowering relationship.

I understand how stifling and scary it can be trying to even just exist in a society and cultures so bound up in binaries.

I welcome each and every part of you to:

  • Challenge repressive beliefs and harmful narratives

  • Process personal traumas and unpack the legacies of abuse and oppression

  • Experience relief from persistent guilt, looming dread, or a lingering sense of inadequacy

  • Build healthier communication and relationships with yourself and others

  • Become more present and at peace in your own life

  • Design a life according to your own beliefs and values

  • Develop a grounding sense of self and discover clarity in decision-making

  • Create sustainable self-care and/or spiritual practices

  • Own your strengths and discover confidence in your passions and identity

If you’re ready to start therapy or have any questions, please send me a message (below) or schedule directly on my Zencare profile (link in footer) to set up a 15 minute consultation phone call.