As a clinical social worker and supervisor, I care about our communities having access to competent, liberation focused, decolonial therapy. From its inception, Western medicine has held a pathologizing view of mental health and clinicians have been trained in colonized practices that center compliance and control over relationships and authentic healing. We have emphasized individualism over community care, which has wounded many of the most vulnerable members of society.

I envision a future of our profession that produces clinicians that can name therapy as inherently political, challenge systems of oppression and actively work to address power differentials in the therapy space.

As a clinical supervisor, my aim is to provide clinicians entering the field with space to explore how these systems are showing up in their work with clients, process their own reactions to the work and be a corrective relationship for the humans we serve. I will center relationships in my supervisory role and help my supervisees center relationships with their clients.

I approach clinical supervision with a laid-back and insight-driven style, fostering a space where supervisees can bring their questions, reflections, and curiosities to the forefront. Whether in group or individual supervision, I allow supervisees to lead the conversations with their own questions or reflections. In supervision I will encourage exploration, self-awareness, and deeper understanding of one’s clinical decision-making and therapeutic presence. 

My therapeutic work is grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS), with a strong emphasis on the therapeutic relationship as the core intervention. I work primarily with clients navigating fat liberation, complex PTSD, and neurodivergence, especially those identified later in life. I’ve completed a 9-week certificate course in supervision fundamentals.