Welcome! I’m Rachel (she/they)
I work with adolescents and adults who struggle with their relationships to themselves, often because of chronic shame over their bodies, food, chronic illness, and neurodivergence.
I came to this work because I’ve been there. I (maybe like you) know what it is like to grow up in a world that is constantly telling you to be different- and if only you were, you would be happy. I (maybe like you) have struggled to find my own forms of love and acceptance of a body that rarely fits the ever-changing beauty standards.
I believe that healing our relationships to ourselves and bodies, much like life, is a never-ending process: it’s messy and it’s hard, but it’s worth it.
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate and received my Masters of Arts in Psychology from Seattle University. Before joining therapy-land, worked in the developmental disability field for over a decade.
In my free time, I enjoy going to comedy shows, making pasta from scratch, spending quality time with my people, and continuously exploring new and loving ways to nurture and nourish my body.
“I touch my own skin, and it tells me that before there was any harm, there was miracle.”
— Adrienne Maree Brown
I live on and profit from the unceded lands of the Duwamish people. I acknowledge the direct correlation to this land theft and the continued genocide and sexual violence towards our Indigenous people, as is blatantly visible with our current local Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) epidemic. In memorandum of the assaulted, lost, and/or murdered loved ones and ancestors on our land and beyond, I strive to increase awareness around the harmful effects of colonization.