About Me And why I love being an ADHD therapist

I am a queer, neurodiverse, non-binary therapist based in Portland, Oregon, offering virtual therapy to adults and couples across the state. My work centers on ADHD, trauma, relationship patterns, emotional intensity, identity, and the ways people learn to survive in systems or relationships that did not fully understand them.

Clients often describe me as warm, direct, engaged, and easy to be real with. I care deeply about creating a therapeutic relationship that feels honest, collaborative, and useful, where we can name what is happening clearly while still holding it with compassion.

My own lived experience with ADHD and queerness informs the way I work, but it does not define the work. I bring clinical training, curiosity, humor, and a deep respect for each client’s inner world. Therapy with me is about helping you understand your patterns, build self-trust, and create changes that actually fit your life.

• I love to travel and am currently spending extended time in Asia with my partner.
• I enjoy snowboarding, wakeboarding, wake-surfing, and surfing. 
• I love Disneyland and have a long-term goal of visiting every Disneyland around the world.
• Food is one of my biggest passions. I love cooking and trying new restaurants wherever I am.
• Being queer and part of queer community is a central and joyful part of my life.

Connection matters deeply to me, both in therapy and in life. I grew up in Oregon, have lived in Portland since 2013, and the Pacific Northwest still feels like home to me.

Part of what drew me to this work is my own experience of self-discovery, identity, and learning how to trust myself more fully. I grew up in a religious environment where belonging often came with a lot of expectations about who I was supposed to be. My own coming out process was not a single moment, but a long unfolding of honesty, grief, courage, and coming home to myself.

I was also diagnosed with ADHD at 24, which reshaped the way I understood my past, my nervous system, and my relationship with myself. A late ADHD diagnosis can bring relief, grief, anger, clarity, and a lot of reprocessing. For me, it helped explain years of feeling different, working harder than other people seemed to, and internalizing struggles as personal failures rather than signs of an unsupported brain.

Being queer, neurodiverse, and non-binary has shaped the way I understand healing. I know what it can feel like to spend years editing yourself, questioning yourself, masking, overcompensating, or trying to become more acceptable to the people and systems around you. I also know how powerful it can be to build a life, relationships, and sense of self that feel more truthful.

These experiences inform my work, but they do not define it. I bring clinical training, curiosity, warmth, humor, and deep respect for each client’s unique story. Whether you are exploring ADHD, trauma, identity, relationships, shame, or old patterns that no longer fit, I care about helping you understand yourself with more compassion and create changes that actually feel aligned with who you are.

I am currently spending extended time traveling through Asia with my partner while continuing to see therapy clients virtually across Oregon.