I draw from many modalities, particularly politicized somatics and Internal Family Systems. I work with clients in North Carolina, and accept Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield NC, Medicaid (Vaya), or private pay.

We live in a society founded on myths of supremacy, and this shapes us in ways we do not choose. But we can come to know ourselves anyway, and we can feel, and we can shape back. We can explore joy and healing and deep relationship for their own sake, and as forms of resistance.

For folks who’ve been targeted by dehumanizing systems and those who are working to subvert them, continuing to offer what we can in the world we live in is hard. Fresh perspective on your conditions, compassion for yourself within them, and clarity about how your values relate to your life and relationships can be a big support. These don’t arrive through revelation; they come through practice. And none of us can do it alone. We need each other.

Community Therapy

My cozy office is near the corner of State Street and Haywood Road, inside Trinity United Methodist Church in West Asheville, which has dedicated space to community organizations working in the neighborhood. I share the third floor with Asheville Poverty Initiative (which runs 12 Baskets Cafe across the street), Deep Time, Asheville Food and Beverage Union, and Asheville Tenants Union. Appalachian Medical Solidarity and the Mutual Aid Wellness Collective are right across the parking lot. I am connected to these organizations and embedded in the web they form in West Asheville through real, accountable relationships. This is part of what holds me well as a mental health worker, and what allows me to hold others well.

Operating as a community therapist in this way means that clients who wouldn’t otherwise have access to care outside of institutions that have already harmed them can find a smooth and relational path towards it. It means that clients who do have more choices can be met at the intersection of individual healing and social change. Like fresh air that supports lichen, these conditions make something beautiful a little more possible.