Supervision and Consultation

What animates and enlivens your clinical work? What are the questions that you bring to your clinical practice about the role of psychotherapy in individual and collective healing? What is your relationship to abolition, reportability, and the carceral state? How do we navigate in ourselves and with our clients the movement back and forth between the slowness of grief and healing, and the urgency of community response and care during these current and ongoing states of cultural and human rights crises and uprisings? 

How do the experiences of your life and body enter into conscious and unconscious conversation with the lives and bodies of your clients? What are the social, historical, and cultural experiences of power, (dis)location, migration, and belonging that you bring into your clinical relationships?

Relational, Feminist, Psychodynamic Perspective

I work from a relational, feminist, psychodynamic perspective that deeply considers how our social and cultural contexts, identities, and embodied experiences intersect with our clients’ identities, contexts, and embodied experiences.

I am especially interested in questions of transference and countertransference, and helping early-career therapists* navigate the boundary questions and issues that can arise when working within communities where one also claims membership and lives actively and visibly, such as social justice, activist, academic, queer, butch/femme, kink, BDSM, and anti-racist organizing.

I have been a clinical supervisor at the Center for Somatic Psychotherapy in San Francisco, and the Women’s Therapy Center in Berkeley, CA, in both their two-year Relational Feminist Psychotherapy Training Program, and their one-year Advanced Clinical Training Program. 

I teach and am frequently in dialog about issues of clinical practice and social transformation. I welcome questions and conversations with colleagues about what it means to develop and sustain a practice of radical, abolitionist psychotherapy that responds to both the loud urgency of liberation, and the deep, often quiet and slow, interiority of grief, recovery, and reflection.