INSURANCE/PAYMENT ACCEPTED:
Out Of Network
Private Pay (with sliding scale)
For GAS support letters (on a monthly basis): free or sliding scale
PRACTICE STATUS:
I currently have openings.
I see therapy as a collaboration. My approach leans towards unpacking and exploring what is said on the surface. I also have a part of me which likes to strategize and I incorporate this into my style as well. I like thinking through emotional boundaries and how to support people to identify theirs, and communicate with them. I value the exploration of identities and believe that in many ways our exploration of who we each are, does not have a timeline. I follow your lead and ask what you're looking for in a given session. If you’re not sure, we’ll decide together what direction to go. I draw upon a variety of approaches including psychodynamic, relational, Internal Family Systems (IFS). I aim to work from a trauma informed, sexuality inclusive, gender affirming and anti-racist framework. This means that I’m thinking about the world we live in and the experiences and relationships in daily life, impacted by the spectrum of privilege, marginalization and social stress. I’ve worked in youth drop-in spaces, community healthcare, and group private practice settings. I’ve been fortunate to have worked in organizations which serve queer, nonbinary and trans people and people living with HIV throughout my career, since 2010.
As its own service (therapy is not required), I provide assessments as part of the process to receive gender affirming surgery or hormone start letters. I provide these meetings once monthly for no charge, or for a sliding fee. If you are interested in both therapy and are in need of letter(s) separately, we can do both. To learn more about my work and this specific service, please see my website FAQ.
If you’re newer to therapy or just want to know more about my style of working, this may help give a sense; following initially hearing from you about what it is you want to talk about in a given session, I generally will ask follow-up questions or ones to support the conversation to get going. I’ll listen, and offer reflections back. Over time, as I get to know you more, my questions become more specific and draw upon our earlier conversations. This is intended to support you to draw further connections about yourself and the things you may want to understand more about, want to approach differently or make changes around. I’ll offer different perspectives and invite consideration for those. This process may evoke varying emotions and is a normal part of being in therapy over time. Some folks want to be “challenged” by therapy. You are the one who will know if this is happening for you or not, over time. You are the expert on you, your relationships and your life and that will remain true from before you begin therapy, to taking part in it, to when our work together ends. I am here to support you along the way.
I consider part of my responsibility as a therapist, social worker, and human, is to engage in my own ongoing personal reflective work in relationship to systems of power, privilege and marginalization and who I am as a white queer cisgender Ashkenazi Jewish woman who is a first generation immigrant of socioeconomic privilege. I engage in regular professional consultation as a way to be accountable to my professional and personal values and the therapeutic process. At consultation, I think through questions forming along the way and stuck places, and to support the therapy work to continue to grow and gain momentum. I’m an ongoing learner and believe that my learning does not end with my initial training.