What would you like To hold space for?
This is the prompt awaiting you when you arrive in my virtual office with sounds + music to support your grounding.
The posed question is an invitation to transition into our session + set an intention for how you would like to share space together. Whether through therapy, groups, wellness events + programming, consultation or coaching, we engage creativity + expression as a portal to healing, liberation + embodied change.
creative + wellness support sessions
Individual Psychotherapy
$220 / 50 Min
Collaboratively design your healing journey. Weekly sessions to support you with understanding the shaping of shrinking, dissociation, and other survival skills. Explore your vulnerable, protective parts, challenge internalized oppression, root + uproot generational patterns + unearth hidden parts that want to be seen, be it creative, spiritual, Queer, Trans, Non-binary, Asexual ++++ and finally take up space.
Relationship/Couples/Polycule Therapy
$250 / 75 Min
$285 / 90 min
Get support attuning to your partner(s) / metamour(s) / friend(s). Relationship therapy provides a container to practice communication and listening, vulnerability, intimacy, moving through change, conflict and cycles of connection/disconnection, and navigating consent and boundaries.
creative community
donation-based / 120 Min
Create, expand + heal in community. Your creativity deserves communal care. Join our monthly community co-werq + playscape sessions.
coaching
$145-205 / 55 Min
Expansive support through coaching is on the way. This new sliding-scale offering is unfolding to create space together for folx outside of Illinois.
approach
Engaging in healing through a liberatory and embodied practice.
Through a collaborative therapeutic process, we work together to explore your emotional landscape, experiences, family and community dynamics, social and economic systems that impact this, and identify practices that support your embodied adaptation and healing. Together, we hold space for intentional change that grows our “capacity to embody the liberated and just worlds we long for.”
I consider my role as a therapist to be a witness + collaborator co-conspiring in your journey in healing + liberation. My approach is relational, rooted in healing justice, and is trauma-oppression informed. I engage my work grounded in my identities as a Black queer, non-binary femme and view intersectionality as foundational for therapeutic exploration. My work is deeply committed to centering voices of those often forced to the margins of society (e.g., Black, Brown + Indigenous folx, LGBTQIA +, trans, gender-expansive people, immigrants + undocumented folx, neurodistinct folx, plus-size/fat, sex workers, kinky + sex-positive folx, people in various relationship structures, etc.). We honor all of your parts, those with power, shame, guilt, + vulnerability, and co-conspire schemes for you to give up shrinking and TAKE UP SPACE.
In recognizing the connection between individual and systemic trauma, somatic work allows us to incorporate a body-based approach to widening the range of sensations and emotions we are more able to feel and be present with. Working through the body as the holder of ancestral resilience and an inherent capacity for healing. We create pathways to wholeness and connection when we engage in healing through a liberatory and embodied practice. Supporting clients in cultivating this life force and practices that enliven and pleasure, create openness, and nourish connection to their aliveness is where we’ll root in to together. Accessing art, creativity, as resource to healing, liberation + collective care are just some of the ways we’ll practice disruption in the western tradition of therapy.
Clients often describe my style as cool, curious, and direct. They appreciate sharing moments of laughter + honesty, my ability to “keep it real,” the ways abolitionist politics lived out in our space, and my efforts to disrupt hierarchy and power within the therapeutic relationship.
process
What happens next?
Solidarity + justice pricing
I am building Radical Healing Lab on a foundation committed to embodying anti-capitalist collectivism, generosity, reciprocity, + solidarity economics. We offer sliding scale low-cost options for Black, Brown, and Indigenous folx, especially those who are unemployed, underemployed, and impacted by anti-Blackness. We are a fully private/self-pay, out-of-network, mutual aid accepting practice (meaning we are not paneled with insurance companies). We are continually thinking of ways to create new systems of collective care and support that generate new pathways of access to mental health practitioners.
Radical Therapy Fund
Since 2020, we have created the Radical Therapy Fund as a community care initiative to subsidize services + support for Black LGBTQ+ community members. We’re accepting donations to support community healing+liberation, drop some coins here:
consultation
Combining my clinical expertise, research, and design+systems thinking, I offer consultation for start-ups, non-profits, and entrepreneurs interested in developing digital health tools and innovative solutions that *leverage technology, wellbeing, and trauma-informed design*. I take a team-centered and collaborative approach that balances **a critical systemic lens and flexibility** in informing evidence-based products.
Whether your organization is considering connecting with a mental health practitioner, looking for support in content, product, or program development, or embodying anti-oppression with your organization, I am here as a thought + change partner.