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Schedule your first appointment. For follow up appointments (existing clients), please contact your therapist at 773-774-4444.
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It all starts with our relationship, because therapy is a healing relationship. I provide a safe, nonjudgmental space where you can be your whole self. I’m inquisitive, direct, and supportive. I’ll help you find new ways of holding your thoughts and feelings so you don’t get so stuck in them. I’ll help you process through old traumas so they don’t keep pulling you out of your life. For couples, I help you learn how to talk to each other effectively and solve your own problems.
I believe that you already have the answers you need; it’s just a matter of us uncovering them together. I believe that therapy is political, and it’s not my job to help people adjust to being oppressed. I believe in my responsibility to be transparent about what’s happening under the hood in treatment and the realities of navigating the medical system. I believe it’s fundamentally unfair that trauma, which you didn’t ask for, leaves you with the clean-up work. I believe that love is unconditional and relationships aren’t; compassion without boundaries is self-immolation. I believe in helping you get to a place where you don’t need me anymore, and still have the safety of our relationship to come back when you need a tune-up.
I believe that narratives and metaphors are powerful ways to learn. I believe in the Oxford comma, art that reaches bone-deep, self-compassion, multiple avenues of meaning-making, Han Solo shooting first, evidence-based methods, over-the-top sparkle, clapping to save Tinkerbell, resilience through connection, post-traumatic growth, everyday heroes, breaking the fourth wall, and that a seemingly ordinary life can be extraordinary. I believe – and respect — that you’re doing the hard work while I coach from the sidelines.
First, I invite you to get comfortable – because change requires discomfort, so we may as well be as physically comfortable as possible, right? Next, I’ll want to know what’s showing up for you in the moment, and we’ll work with that. I’ll probably make at least one or two deadpan wisecracks during session. For couples’ and relationships sessions, we’ll be more structured, having some basic “rules of engagement” to practice. In one-on-one sessions, we may have more structured exercises; usually we’ll talk things out, and you may or may not realize you’ve gotten some therapy. I’ll frequently give you skills or experiments to practice between sessions, because I want you in charge of creating change in your life. On my work from home days, at least one of my cats will make an appearance on screen.
I got my BA in English and Philosophy from Lake Forest College, spent ten years in corporate America, and then fled to work at a yoga studio and complete my MA in Counseling Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. I was born and raised in Chicago and I love the city. I’m a yogi, foodie, animal lover, and out-and-proud queer woman. In my free time, I like doing geeky things, spending time with my friends and cats, doing yoga or Pilates, writing, reading, cooking, going to restaurants or classes, seeing movies or plays, crafting, and getting tattoos.
Schedule your first appointment. For follow up appointments (existing clients), please contact your therapist at 773-774-4444.