Therapy and Groups

Attachment Issues (especially adult transracial adoptees): Early childhood relationships, specifically with our primary caregivers, shape and form our social and internal worlds. Many struggle with relational stress, especially regarding avoidance and anxiety, are due to the brokenness of those initial relationships. Yet, we are not doomed to live from these impoverished places. We can experience attachment, safety, and "mothering" later in life. I have focused much of my post graduate work/studies on repairing attachments.

Trauma: All of my clinical work during and after graduate school has been with children and families victimized by some form of trauma. Most of the folks I work with have suffered from childhood sexual abuse, racialized trauma, spiritual/religious trauma, and domestic violence. I am a trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Processing Therapy and EMDR.

Racial Identity and Multicultural Issues: I am passionate about racial equality and recognize that many BIPOC folk have experienced rejection, oppression, dismissal, and worse - hatred. Much of my understanding of this often maddening and complex terrain comes from my own mixed-race experience. To become the fullness and GREATNESS of who you are meant to be often means a recognition of how you have been made small by a world of White Supremacy.