Relationship coaching is a powerful process. Together, we create a comfortable container for emotional processing around the obstacles that prevent you from living your most authentic life. Then we unpack your personal and relational goals – and strategize for how to take baby steps toward achieving them. I offer deep, affirmative supportive for what is coming up for you, and I act as an accountability partner, helping you make movement toward new practices for more fulfillment.

I call this work “politicized” because of how I approach it. I believe that journeying toward being in right relationship to ourselves and to others – living our values to the best of our ability – is meaningful political work.

Seeing our (familial, romantic, platonic, sexual, professional, community) connections as sites to practice our political values is a radical perspective. Politicizing our relationships invites us to explore our complex social locations; our socialized thoughts, behaviors, and norms; and the long-lasting impacts of our trauma. That way, we can unlearn what isn’t serving us – and replace it with values-aligned action.

Furthermore, I find that folks whose lives are deeply rooted in social justice need to work with providers who understand their theory and praxis. It’s hard to talk about non-monogamy with someone who idealizes monogamy; to unpack avoidant attachment with someone who pathologizes it; to explore relationship anarchy with someone who values the nuclear family. That’s where I come in: I get it.

I specialize in looking at relationships from a social justice lens. This includes expertise in non-monogamy, polyamory, and relationship anarchy; intimate partner violence; breakups and heartache; (avoidant) attachment; queer, bisexual, and femme identity; sexuality in eating disorder recovery; and more. More than that, I understand how important it is to center feminist, abolitionist, anti-oppression politics in our understanding of ourselves and others.

I believe that collective liberation is an inside-out process – that the ripple effects of our self-development work and relational healing is community care. Ultimately, looking at where oppression lives in us – and working actively to uproot that – leads to the abolition of the very systems that take away the opportunity of authenticity from us in the first place.