We will meet for 53 minutes once every or every-other week.

Therapy is a highly personalized process. How often we meet and for how long depends on what you would like that process to look like for you.

Therapy is highly dependent on building a relationship between client and therapist and my therapeutic style is process-based rather than solution focused. I do ask that we meet weekly for at least the first six weeks as this is an important time to develop a rapport and start to shape a path forward.

From there, we can check in on if every week or every other week feels right. Most clients benefit from at least 6 months of sessions. This is something we will figure out together as we go. Ultimately, it is your decision much time you would like to invest in the process.

I have a 48 hour cancellation policy. Cancel up to 48 hours before a session to avoid the late cancel fee (full cost of the session - $140). If you miss the 48 hour window but reschedule for another time slot in the same week, I will waive the cancellation fee.

I see clients in person in the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle on Fridays. I see clients virtually Tuesday-Friday.

Health at Every Size is a movement and framework that promotes a weight-inclusive approach to health and well-being. It challenges the traditional focus on weight loss as a primary goal for improving health, and instead emphasizes respect, body diversity, and evidence-based health practices that are accessible to people of all sizes.

Fat liberation is a social justice movement that challenges the systemic oppression of fat people and advocates for their full inclusion, dignity, and rights in all areas of life. Unlike body positivity, which often focuses on individual self-love, fat liberation targets the structural roots of anti-fat bias—such as discrimination in healthcare, employment, media, and public policy. It recognizes that fatphobia is deeply tied to other systems of oppression like racism, ableism, classism, and sexism, and calls for the dismantling of those interlocking injustices. Fat liberation asserts that fat bodies are not problems to be fixed, but people who deserve respect, safety, and autonomy—regardless of health status, appearance, or societal norms.

Medical gaslighting is when a healthcare professional dismisses, minimizes, or questions a patient’s symptoms in a way that makes the patient doubt their own experiences or feelings.

The mainstream medical establishment disincentivizes thorough examination of any pain or symptoms that are not easy to ‘solve for’ in favor of productivity and insurance capital. As a result, many doctors are trained to pathologize patients seeking answers and diagnosis of a chronic illness as ‘squeaky wheels’ and ‘mentally unwell’. These patients often must fight a battle to be seen, heard and diagnosed which can wear them down to the point of dismissing their own pain. Women and non-white people (and especially non-white women) are proven to have their pain dismissed time and again. Furthermore, many patients who live in fat bodies are dismissed when going to medical doctors to address actual concerns because their weight is pathologized as the root of all their problems. It is like going to the doctor for a broken leg and instead of getting a cast, being told to lose weight: your pain is less valid because you are fat.

Over time, this can lead patients to feel reluctant to seek further medical care, potentially delaying accurate diagnosis and treatment.

Ableism is discrimination or prejudice against people with disabilities, based on the belief that typical physical, mental, or cognitive abilities are superior.

Ableism is embedded not only in individual attitudes but also in systems and environments that fail to accommodate different bodies and minds, creating barriers to full participation in society. It can appear in obvious ways—like denying access to accommodations or in subtle, more internalized forms, such as framing executive functioning challenges as laziness, or believing that there is one “normal” way to act in social settings.

Simply put, I believe that everything, including therapy, is political.

We don’t exist in a vacuum. Politics shape the rules, systems, and power structures that influence daily life—such as laws, education, healthcare, work, and even cultural norms. How I walk through the world is different than how a non-white, or disabled, or trans person walks through the world because of political systems that create hierarchies about who gets resources, whose voices are prioritized, and what is considered “normal”. Politics isn’t just about elections or government—it’s about how power operates in society.

Therapy is political because, like life, we don’t heal in a vacuum. The majority of our healing happens outside of therapy room, in a world where race, gender, disability, class, and sexuality influence our lived experiences. The therapy room is a safe space to explore how we are affected by the world around us. Furthermore, larger social systems shape who gets access to mental healthcare and how we are taught to conceptualize “normal” behavior.