My Journey
As a licensed psychotherapist with a Ph.D. in existential psychology and over twenty years of experience, I trained alongside the foremost existential thinkers in the world and have built a reputation as one of the leading experts at the intersection of existential psychotherapy, liberation theory, and relationship anarchy.
My work begins with the existential conviction that freedom and responsibility are the ground of all human experience, and extends that insight into the relational and political dimensions of our lives.
Drawing on the scholarship of bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldúa, Frantz Fanon, and Simone de Beauvoir to ask not only how we exist, but how we love, connect, and liberate ourselves together. This is the framework I bring to my clinical work, my teaching, and my scholarship, animated throughout by the belief that love and liberation are a single project.
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.” -bell hooks
Transformation
My Approach
I see relationships as liberation work. My practice is rooted in relationship anarchy: dismantling the hierarchies we inherit in love, family, and community, and building relationships grounded in consent, autonomy, and collective care. This isn’t just therapy—it’s reimagining how we live and love as an act of resistance.
What Guides My Work
My Relationship Anarchy Approach
My work is rooted in the belief that love is political—that how we relate shapes the world we live in.
Relationship Anarchy offers us tools to resist hierarchy, scarcity, and control, and to practice freedom through our connections.
This approach invites you to:
Question the scripts that tell you which bonds “count” and which don’t
Reimagine love as abundant rather than scarce
Resist ownership and hierarchy in how you connect
Honor consent, autonomy, and mutual care as the foundation of every bond
See relationships as sites of collective liberation, not private escape
Working Together
In this space, you are invited to:
Explore new ways of loving without hierarchy or control
Experiment with building chosen family and community on your own terms
Nurture relationships that expand rather than confine
Align your connections with your deepest values of freedom and justice
Imagine love as a practice of liberation—for yourself and for the world
Education
- Ph.D. in Psychology, Saybrook University (2015)
- M.A., Regis University (2004)
- B.A., Metro State University (2001)