It is my hope as a therapist to build a foundational relationship with my clients as they navigate the dance between their internal and external worlds. My approach encourages clients to bring their full selves to the work through curiosity, memory/dream work, expressive arts, play therapy, storytelling, and genuine connection.
Liberation, in all its forms, is at the core of my work; I center the client’s agency and self-exploration above all else.
The combination of these principles often looks like the interweaving of uncovering unconscious patterns, mapping out your inner world, and
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My clients often hold multiple marginalized identities.
I love being a therapist because I get to collaborate with incredible people in building a better world for themselves and their community. Outside of therapy, I love to be outdoors, cover everything I own in art, and hang out with my cats. If you are finding yourself curious about working with me, please check out the other tabs on this website about what you might be looking for and how to get in touch with me.
My approach to individual therapy with adolescents and adults often begins with a period of really understanding the ins and outs of their everyday life and struggles, alongside an unfolding process of gathering history.
Read moreWith children under the age of 13, I practice a combination of play and child-centered family therapy. My goal in play therapy is to create an environment where my client can feel safe, autonomous, and empowered.
Read more| Annual income | Fee |
|---|---|
| $30,000 and below | $85 |
| $30,000 to $60,000 | $110 |
| $60,000 to $100,000 | $135 |
| $100,000 and above | $150 |
Through Walnut Psychotherapy Center, I am also able to take clients through several insurance options:
In network with Aetna, United, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Please note, I am NOT in network with Medicare or Medicaid plans or Medicare Advantage, including Aetna Better Health and United Community plans.
Preserving Autonomy in The Gender Assessment:
From Gatekeeper to Collaborator with Trans Patients
2–4 hrs
Leadership & Power Dynamics Workshop
2–4 hrs
Youth Mental Health:
From diagnosis/at-risk to a resilience & growth model
1–2 hours
I have been in the social work field since 2020, where I worked in Pittsburgh supporting low-income high school seniors in transitioning from high school to the adult world. Through this work, I began to experience the importance of a healing and positive relationship in reaching life goals. I also acted as the Mental, Emotional, and Social Health Coordinator for the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Summer Programs, leading me to develop a strong passion for supporting young people in navigating distress and crisis in an outdoor setting. Finally, my decades-long organizing and research work with queer and trans young people navigating physical and emotional health systems brought me to the decision to get a Master’s in Clinical Social Work.
Since beginning my Master’s in Clinical Social Work in 2023, I have had the pleasure of doing clinical work with young people in medical and college settings. My time at Duke’s Child and Adolescent Gender Care Clinic taught me the importance of bringing in physical and social reality alongside my clinical work in the internal and unconscious. Haverford College’s Counseling and Psychological Services taught me more about crisis work and the importance of a strong and trusting therapeutic relationship in navigating our inner worlds and complex emotions.
The culmination of these experiences led me to the work I do today, a combination of psychotherapy, coaching, and workshops. I am now fully embedded in supporting the queer and trans community in PA through my work at Walnut Psychotherapy Center, supporting my clients in building lives that make them feel safe, loved, and empowered. I also offer coaching services for neurodivergent folks who need more one-on-one tangible goal support in their everyday lives. I also lead workshops teaching fellow clinicians and care workers in how to best work with queer and trans communities.
My approach to individual therapy with adolescents and adults often begins with a period of really understanding the ins and outs of their everyday life and struggles, alongside an unfolding process of gathering history. My goal as a therapist is to meet my clients in their experiences through curiosity, emotional attunement, and positive regard.
Clients often describe my approach as deep and slow-going, as I strongly believe in getting to know a person in their wholeness alongside their specific mental health symptoms and needs.
I balance this goal of wholeness with an ongoing thread of supporting clients in going deeper into their internal worlds and narratives around their own lives. This thread is the core of my work, where I believe that unearthing internal processes leads to lasting and personalized change in a client’s life.
While I can occasionally offer short-term work for acute crises, my preference is providing long-term work that supports the building of a lasting and important therapeutic relationship.
With children under the age of 13, I practice a combination of play and child-centered family therapy. My goal in play therapy is to create an environment where my client can feel safe, autonomous, and empowered. I like to tell my clients that the play therapy room is a space where they can say and do almost anything, within the limits of both of our physical and emotional safety needs. This leads to children being able to access the imaginative play space they need to process their environment and internal worlds. This process can sometimes take several months to reach, as I believe patience is extremely important in building the client-therapist relationship.
I believe that to work with a child is to work with their family, so alongside my weekly play therapy appointments with your child, I also offer monthly appointments with the child’s caregivers. I find that my caregiver appointments can bridge the work we are doing in individual play therapy to more long-lasting interventions in the home.
I also offer child-centered family therapy, where I will do therapy with the whole family, but focus more specifically on creating a space that centers the needs of the younger folks in the family. This can vary depending on the needs of the family, but I often will weave together individual sessions with children and parental units alongside work with the whole family at once to get a better picture of the family dynamics.
Through Walnut Psychotherapy Center, I am also able to take clients through several insurance options:
In network with Aetna, United, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
All of these companies have subsidiaries and business partners, making it a little confusing. Variations of Aetna include Meritain, GEHA, Trustmark, and Coresource. Variations of United include Optum, United Behavioral Health, United Student Resources, UMR, All Savers, Oxford, and Golden Rule. We are in-network with all of these variations of Aetna and United, and we can also accept most Blue Cross Blue Shield variations, including Independence Blue Cross and Highmark.
Please note, I am NOT in network with Medicare or Medicaid plans or Medicare Advantage, including Aetna Better Health and United Community plans.
