I offer two main things to do this:

1 – Crisis support (that lasts more than five minutes and doesn’t leave you to fend for yourself after the conversation is over)

2 – Teaching you foundational coping tools and skills like self-compassion, working with negative thoughts and overwhelming feelings, getting comfortable with uncertainty, practicing radical acceptance, and more (basically, therapy 101).

These are the things you need to survive whatever it is you might be going through, without the help of a therapist or the overwhelm of trying to figure it all out on your own.

I do this with:

– a hefty dose of irreverence and dark humor

– a heavy emphasis on music, television, poetry, art, and more, to help you learn and help you feel better and less alone

– a healthy disdain for the mental health industrial complex (especially “therapy speak” and “wellness speak” – if I hear one more person saying ‘hold space’ or ‘both/and’ or telling me to unclench my jaw I will scream).

I do all of this because:

I want to offer what I never had when I needed it the most: the courage to believe I could make it through really fucking hard things, the tools to do so and the support to carry me through — in a setting that feels less like a boho chic therapist’s office and more like a corner bar having a (non-alcoholic) drink with an old, wise, grumpy, foul-mouthed friend — one who’s not afraid to speak honestly about how fucked up everything is and won’t tell you to just look on the bright side, ever, but will offer you solid perspective, validation, kindness and compassion, and help you find ways to help yourself when you need it.

That’s what I’m here to help you do.