Embrace your complexity.
If it’s easy for you to get “lost in your own head” because it’s such an interesting place…
If you are deeply affected by both the beauty and the challenges of our world…
If you’re frequently told how smart you are, but you think you’ve just managed to fool everyone…
If you are tired from looking at everything from multiple angles and lenses, all at the same time…
Here is a space for all the parts of your whole, wonderfully complex self.
I offer 50 minute individual counseling sessions for people located in Oregon and California, where I am licensed. I may be able to meet with people in other areas depending on the licensure requirements in your area.
I meet with most clients weekly.
I offer sessions in person and over HIPAA secure video.
My rate is $150 per standard 50 minute session. Phone calls lasting longer than 15 minutes are charged at a rate of $30 for each 15-minute increment. I can also offer low fee referral sources as well.
I am in network with Pacific Source and OHP Jackson Care Connect (Care Oregon). I may be able to bill other OHP networks, depending on their allowances for out of network billing. AllCare does not allow out of network providers to bill them. I can also bill other insurance companies out of network. If you wish to use insurance, I need your insurance information 48 hours before our first meeting to check your benefits. If I do not have this information, we cannot meet.
Now forming: DBT skills group designed to be neurodivergent affirming. The Distress Tolerance module will be offered early spring 2023, with Emotional Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness modules to be offered later in 2023.
I offer supervision services for pre licensed clinicians in Oregon. Clinical supervision helps therapists develop our craft by strengthening understanding of clinical skills, legal and ethical obligations, as well as how to make this work sustainable. My role as a supervisor is to push you gently toward your growing edges and help deepen your clinical thinking, in the context of a supportive relationship that assumes the best about you and your work.
I welcome supervisees who wish to think critically about how larger social forces of power and oppression are at play in agencies, schools, and the clinical relationship itself. I also especially enjoy working with neurodivergent clinicians and those who want to consider the ways neurodivergence shows up in therapy. I also enjoy offering consultations with clinicians on these subjects as well.
My rates for supervision and consultation are $100 per hourly session. I maintain some sliding scale spots in my practice as well.
Jackson County Mental Health Crisis Line
if you are in need of immediate assistance, please call 541-774-8201
NEURODIVERGENCE
Eggshell Therapy (HSP, gifted, BPD)
InTune Pathways (autism and general neurodivergence)
Neuroqueer (autism and general neurodivergence)
Struggle Care (resources for home care with ND and mental health challenges)
Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted
Tilt Parenting (parenting ND kids)
The Ultimate Guide to Twice Exceptionality
Your Rainforest Mind (giftedness)
SEXUALITY AND GENDER
OHSU Transgender Health Program
Rogue Action Center (hub for LGBTQ events and organizing)
Scarleteen (sexuality education)
LOW COST THERAPY RESOURCES
Community Counseling Center of Ashland
I did my undergraduate work in history and English literature at the University of Florida. Having benefited from the life changing work of therapy myself, I went on to earn my master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. I have worked in a variety of settings from crisis lines to integrated clinics to schools (K-12). One of my favorite things about this field is the never ending opportunities to learn, and then bring what I have learned to my clients. I try to not infodump all that knowledge (even though that is my neurodivergent love language)! I see the therapy room as a workshop space where I bring my education and clinical experience, and we collaborate to find what is most supportive of your healing process.
I am most inspired by my clients’ passionate commitment to being themselves, even if the path is unclear at times. Clients who enjoy working with me tend to like my dark sense of humor, my ability to acknowledge and work with the material realities they are experiencing, and that I bring my real self and real reactions in the therapy room. (I am not the “blank slate” type of therapist.) They appreciate that our discussions include lots of parentheticals, asterisks, and rabbit trails into special interests.
Outside of being a therapist, I enjoy baking, overanalyzing TV shows, and urban walks (usually in search of coffee). I love to spend time with my family and have the delight of being a mother. I am a passionate reader and especially love anything fairytale or mythology related. In the last few years I have been studying flower essences, which I find a really lovely medicine and a powerful way to connect with the non-human world. My favorite stories tend to involve a ragtag bunch of misfits who save the world (Buffy forever). I am grateful to be on this beautiful planet with you.