Conversation & Art as Liberation
Therapy that Honors the Mind, Body, and Creative Spirit
Therapy, at its best, is about remembering and allowing your authentic response to the world — liberating sound, color, and movement that never needed permission to exist.
At Third Object, therapy is a creative collaboration, not just a conversation. It’s where your words, images, and embodied experiences come together to tell a fuller story of who you are and what you’ve lived through.
I offer both traditional talk therapy and art therapy, either separately or woven together, depending on your comfort, needs, and goals. No matter which path you choose, our work centers liberation, and authenticity. We will explore how systems of power and culture have shaped your inner world and how you might begin to live more freely, creatively, and compassionately.
My Treatment Methods
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Cultural humility is woven throughout my educational background and experience. I spent three years serving in community mental health with a richly diverse client base, and I continue to frame my work with clients as co-learning. I believe that you are the expert on your own experience in the world. I carry a deep commitment to community, spiritual and religious diversity, and intersectional identity formation.
Existential
I offer existentially informed, mindfulness-based interventions with the aim of deepening a client’s acceptance of their unique reality and experiences. I work from curiosity around how we construct a "self", and I believe that awareness and release allow us the freedom to respond authentically to life. Existential apporached to therapy includes integration of awareness practices such as meditation.
Gender-affirming Therapy
As a non-binary clinician with a lifetime of lived experience in LGBTQIA2S+ community, I offer affirmation, exploration, flexibility and acceptance to clients on their gender journey.
Narrative
Narratives inform how we are oriented to our lives, and I have rooted my therapy practice in exploring the stories my clients tell about themselves, and the structures of power that impact those narratives. I typically begin treatment with storytelling, and we will revisit and re-tell your personal stories many times throughout our work together.
Why People Choose Third Object
Clients often come to Third Object when:
They’ve outgrown traditional therapy that ignores culture and the political landscape
They want therapy that honors queerness, creativity, and complexity
They feel drawn to express themselves beyond words
They’re seeking a therapist who’s comfortable talking about faith, art, and liberation
My goal is to meet you wherever you are, with empathy, curiosity, and an understanding that your healing is both deeply personal and profoundly collective.
What You Can Expect
I offer free 15 minute phone consultation to help you feel supported in choosing the right therapist. If this feels like a good fit, I will send you intake paperwork, and we will schedule our first session!
We move at your pace, guided by your needs and comfort level.
Online or In-Person Sessions
Online Talk Therapy, Art Therapy, Group therapy, and Marriage Counseling available throughout California
In-Person and online Art Therapy available in Portland, Oregon
Online Creative cohorts available to clients in any state that accepts the AT-R (registered art therapist) licence
Art Therapy
Art as a Pathway to Externalization and Integration
Art therapy offers space to externalize experiences that you that don’t have words for yet, or that invite deeper inquiry through artmaking. Through drawing, sculpture, scribbling, painting, writing, soundmaking, or movement, we explore emotions and stories that live in the body and psyche, allowing you to express, release, and transform what feels stuck. You do not need to be an artist to participate! Art therapy is about process, not product, and curiosity, not craft.
How Art Therapy Works
During a session, you might:
Create an image or object in response to a feeling or memory
Make marks on paper to explore a feeling
Explore mark making and movement as a means to identify and process somatic experiences
Use metaphor and imagery to reimagine your story
Reflect on what your art expresses about your inner world
Move fluidly between art-making and talking
Create a body of work to externalize and explore a specific trauma, grief, or narrative
Each session becomes a dialogue, between you, your art, and myself, uncovering new insights and pathways to healing.
When language fails, the body remembers — and the creative process helps it speak.
Art Therapy Can Support You If You’re Navigating:
Grief, loss, or transitions
Queer identity, gender expression, and belonging
Religious or spiritual trauma
Anxiety, depression, or emotional overwhelm
Creative block or burnout
Reconnecting with joy, sensuality, and meaning
A desire for nontraditional, embodied healing
talk Therapy
Deep Conversation as Liberation
Talk therapy at Third Object is rooted in depth, relational connection, and awareness of endangering narratives. Rather than focusing only on “symptom relief,” we work together to understand how your personal experiences connect with broader social and cultural stories, and how those forces can be rewritten.
Through compassionate dialogue, reflection, and creative exploration, we’ll work to:
Understand your emotional patterns and responses
Build tools for emotional regulation and self-compassion
Explore identity, belonging, and purpose
Heal from trauma, grief, and loss
Create meaning in times of uncertainty
Reconnect with your voice and values
My approach blends existential and narrative therapy, while being deeply informed by liberation psychology, queer theory, and constructivism. If you’ve ever felt alienated by traditional therapy, as though your queerness, faith, or insights needed to stay outside the room, this space was made for you.
You deserve therapy that sees the systems around you, not just the symptoms within you.
Relational and Marriage Counseling
Rebuilding Connection Through Presence and Play
Relational and marriage counseling at Third Object is rooted in relational health, embodied listening, and the belief that repair begins when partners feel truly seen, heard, and understood. Instead of reducing conflict to “communication problems,” we explore the deeper emotional, cultural, and bodily patterns shaping how you relate to one another. This work invites a return to curiosity, humor, and play. When couples rediscover their capacity to laugh together, move together, and listen with their whole selves, relationships often shift from rigid and reactive to spacious and authentic.
Through attuned dialogue, somatic awareness, and collaborative exploration, we’ll work to:
Understand relational patterns and the cycles that keep you disconnected
Build embodied listening skills that support emotional safety and presence
Explore how identity, culture, neurodiversity, and family history shape your dynamic
Restore trust, heal ruptures, and create pathways for meaningful reconnection
Navigate desire, boundaries, and needs as they shift and evolve
Reintroduce humor, play, and shared joy into your relationship
My approach blends attachment theory, narrative work, relational-cultural psychology, and liberation-based frameworks—while honoring the full spectrum of how people build love. I work with partners practicing monogamy, polyamory, and relational anarchy, offering a space where complexity is welcomed and no configuration is pathologized.
While I do not offer couples art therapy, this is still a space for creative reimagining, and some art intervention may be introduced. We will spend time looking at how you communicate, attend to each other, and cultivate connection.
You deserve counseling that sees your relationship in context: its history, its structure, its values, and the systems shaping how you learn to love each other.
Upcoming Creative Cohorts
Collective healing is at the core of my work, and I take great joy in creative cohorts that support affinity groups. My therapeutic creative cohorts are group experiences that combine art therapy, storytelling, and liberation work.
Upcoming groups include:
• Trans Youth Art Therapy Cohort – a creative space for trans youth to explore identity, creativity, and connection. (age 13-18)
• End of Control– a group therapy space for LGBTQIA2S+ people who are leaving, or who have left, high-control religious environments.
Begin Your Creative Healing Journey
Whether you want to talk, create, or both, I’d love to meet you where you are. Our first conversation will help us clarify what you’re seeking and how I can support your process.