Welcome! I offer relationally-focused mental health counseling in Asheville or virtually.
I work with helping professionals, caregivers, and organizers as they practice bringing deep relationships and liberatory values into their day to day work
I work with those who’ve faced criminalization or marginalization, often for survival activities, as they resist narratives that pathologize their experience and responses.
Why Lichen?
Lichen looks like one organism, but is at least two, and often three or four. Lichens live on all kinds of things—bark, rocks, the ground—but only thrive where the air is fresh. Very slowly, using their bodies, lichens break down rocks into soil.
Lichen exemplifies some understandings on which I base my practice:
We are made of relationships
The external conditions of our lives shape us
We can shape them back
