I’ve been practicing for over eight years, with four exclusively being in my own independent practice. My experience has been that people often reach out to try and work with a specific issue or set of issues. Given time, money, intensity of distress and other variables, there is often a sense of urgency to center the problem in conversations. It also matches the popular ideas that one approaches a counselor to ‘fix or reduce the impact of whatever’s bothering them’. This can feel like a lot of pressure to ‘get to the root of the problem’, ‘asking for tools and fixes’ and ‘wanting to share all the relevant information as soon as possible’.

I’d like a client to know that therapy can look like a slower, intentional process that isn’t supposed to re traumatize you or require long, linear narrations of ’life history’. That it can be unusual for us to set aside money to invest in time to talk about ourselves. I urge them to imagine therapy as an exploration where one is leading with curiosity as opposed to criticality. It can feel frustrating or heavy sometimes. Therapy to me, can’t be inclusive if we leave our politics outside - the very real impacts of gender, caste, culture, patriarchy etc. And that’s something some clients look for more specifically while others might align to more popular forms of therapy. I would also love for clients to ask lots of questions. Get to know the therapist’s experience, how they answer questions, their availability - see how they make you feel. There are as many types of therapists and therapy as there are individuals. Ask around a little bit if you have the time and space to do so before making a decision.

I work with individuals between the ages of 18 - 45.

A lot of my work touches upon the evolving world and its worries - all the way from larger issues like the pandemic and climate change to specific ways in which someone’s access to employment, education, connections etc. are interrupted.

My specific areas of interest are grief, loss, urban loneliness, migration, recovering from religious trauma, dating dilemmas and partner conflicts (relationship/ marriage conflicts/ separations/ estrangement/ divorces etc.). Populations I am keen on supporting are queer and neurodivergent folx, disabled folx, people coming to terms with experiences of marginalization and oppression. I’m more interested in people’s experiences, descriptions and knowledges of their problems more than medicalized/ expert driven/ clinical labels.

I am not currently working with couples, families or minors.

My training is a form of therapy that borrows partly from psychology, but also heavily from feminist liberation movements, literary theory, anthropology, social justice movements, indigenous knowledges and culture studies. Quite a mouthful?

I’m drawn to working with language - what do we mean when we say something? How do we perceive it? How is meaning made in our unique contexts, culture etc. and what is the impact of that on us? How do we tell stories of ourselves and where do we locate ourselves in the world? I draw a lot from nature and nature metaphors - what do we observe, what phenomenon in nature mirrors us and what do we learn from observing, spending time in and using nature as a metaphor to understand our lives? Second, we have many parts of us that are in constant movement. Some get prioritized, some feel difficult and are kept away. Some find it hard to co-exist. I seek acquaintance with all parts of you and what information they seek to provide. While I adhere to confidentiality, a big focus of my work is to reduce isolation by linking my client to stories, projects, resources and movements in the world that may have shared experiences and tips and knowledges. Not all the answers lie in a therapy conversation and a big focus is on helping build or strengthen connections to multiple places of support, acknowledging that connection can lie literally anywhere.

My work and stances are deeply political and by that I don’t mean - who you vote for. I am anti oppressive practices, trauma informed, feminist, anti-patriarchy, liberation driven, queer, neurodivergent and am quite firm about acknowledging and being transparent about the impact of the intersection of our different social locations. If this feels like a lot of words or unclear, I encourage people to ask me about this when they reach out. I seek to honour differences rather than pretend they don’t exist or don’t matter. And I seek to work with people that are interested in this lens rather than a more general approach to work.

This section can hold a lot of big words/ jargon. Please feel free to ask me about them if you’re unclear.

I’m a queer and neurodivergent person. While I have access to literature and lived experiences, safety, affirmation and advocacy in a therapeutic context is broader. It is a constant process of examining, unlearning, asking and staying close to the philosophies, movements, actions, voices and stories of these folx. Can I recognize and work on my biases and ‘knowns’? Do I work extra hard to remember how intersectionality makes every person’s situation unique? Can I acknowledge when I may not be trained or adequately resourced to support a queer or trans person?

What are the efforts I’m making to be aware of local helplines, legalities and available options in the client’s geography and culture if they were to avail services? What does safety look like for a person in a session? What allows someone to trust me to share these parts of their identity with me?

When I’m working online, what accommodations do I make for sensory needs or other needs and invisible disabilities? These are some things I’m attempting to not just welcome queer, neurodivergent or disabled folx to my practice, but communicate an active interest and advocacy for practices that are more inclusive.