Go ahead, love

Siiiiiiigh your biggest sigh

You work incredibly hard to show up as best you can in this world that does not seem to be letting up or offering much systemic support. If you’re barreling into burnout, already burnt to a crisp, or fearful of what you’ll have to sacrifice to avoid burnout— I see you.

Whether you’re planning to start a family, just about to bring a life into the world, had a baby recently, or are learning what it’s like to be a parent in 2025, there is a place for you here.

If you’re a queer family, nontraditional family, blended family, poly-parent family, or otherwise living your most authentic, out-of-the-box blueprint, I’m here to support the relational, systemic, identity, energetic, emotional and other massive shifts you’re undergoing right now.

Intentional, inclusive space for the spectrum of parenthood

Much of perinatal and parenting work centers cis-women birthers, but there are many other ways to become a parent, be it through gender-diverse birth, adoption, surrogacy, poly-parents, “bonus” parents, belly-births, blended families, and more. My personal experience as a bisexual, nonbinary birthing parent in a less traditional family structure has allowed (and required) me to open and shift my perspectives and holding of families of all identities and formations. Cultural/societal conditioning and institutional anti-trans policies have made mental health, medical care, and perinatal care biased, less accessible, and often outright dangerous for queer and trans families. If you’ve experienced this violence and oppression, I’m holding you and am committed to advocating with you. Thankfully, and with a lot of work and advocacy, things are changing for the better. And we still have a long way to go…

Your experiences, identity, history, challenges, traumas, hopes, and abilities are welcome here. You deserve support that meets who you are, right where you are.

  • Birthing people, you have (or will) experience the intensity and expansive wildness of lifegiving. It’s a transformation, whatever your birth experience is. Your relationship to your body and identity is undergoing one of the biggest shifts imaginable. Somatic expressive arts can support your coming into this new identity, body, and orientation. Using somatic attunement and creative expression, I can offer you modes of accessing and integrating these changes in step with your unique path.

  • Your child is magic. They are becoming. Each will emerge further into themselves as they grow. What an honor it is to be witness and to hold this human process. If you are curious or already committed to not assigning/assuming a gender for your child as part of this process, I have experience and can support you along your own way of navigating this expansive approach.

  • While I don’t offer family or child therapy currently, sometimes I find it transformative to invite a partner, co-parent, or other caregiver into a session (or a few) to allow for more relational support, deeper communication, sturdy interdependence, and understanding of different experiences. We can discuss as and when this may be appropriate for you and your care.

  • Providing resource connections is part of what I love about this work. Whether you’re searching for a midwife, doula, lactation consultant, postpartum yoga, or other access to perinatal, postpartum, or parenting support, I’m here to collaborate to share in my network of professionals in and around Portland, OR.

  • I am a mental health counselor and have training in perinatal mental health disorders, but if you’re facing intense, persistent symptoms and need further diagnostic assessment, medication management, or psychiatric care, I may refer you to a specialist in order to give you the most appropriate support. When able, I like to work collaboratively as part of a care team so you can feel the wraparound tending that is sometimes essential in this tender period of life.