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Thank you for taking the time to learn more about me and my practice. I am a queer trans-identified licensed professional therapist practicing clinical psychotherapy for over 16 years. My practice is based out of Portland, OR and Seattle, WA and I am licensed in both states. I received my master's degree in Psychology at a social justice forward school at Antioch University Seattle in 2008 and have been working consistently as a therapist ever since. I have extensive experience and training in counseling individuals, couples, and families in a wide variety settings such as primary health care clinics, urban and rural tribal health care, community mental health treatment centers, and major healthcare facilities.

Your care and well-being remains at the heart of our journey. My practice is based on creating a trusting and non-judgmental safe space for us to work towards your unique and personal goals. I believe therapy should be a meaningful, collaborative, and intentional process. I work from a trauma-informed, social justice, body-neutral, and culturally informed framework. I committed to continuing my own education and awareness of my own intersectionality as an able -bodied white queer male-identified therapist and believe ongoing education and professional collaboration is essential to being a effective therapist.

I am an active and engaged relational therapist, which means I am focused on our therapeutic relationship in as much as our goals and issues at hand. I mainly draw from psychodynamic, attachment-based, and evidence-based practices as appropriate depending on the issues we address. I will not only be providing a compassionate and active listening space, but may also engage in counsel, coach in skill development, or teach new ways to approach relationships, reduce painful feelings, or heal from difficult experiences while also attending to our professional relationship.