Specialties
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a certified alcohol and drug counselor with a private psychotherapy practice in Uptown Chicago. Areas of clinical expertise include mental health, individual and family psychotherapy, identity, relationships, aging, mood and anxiety disorders, grief and loss, addictions, health, chronic illness, persons with HIV/AIDS, transgender persons seeking medical/surgical gender treatments, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer persons, genderqueer persons, spouses and families of transgender individuals, blended families, polyamory, leather and kink communities. My clinical approach and interventions are informed by the integration of Mindfulness and Acceptance, Strengths Theory, Systems Theory, Feminist Theory, and Motivational Interviewing.