Establishing a therapeutic relationship requires vulnerability and trust. I want to offer my positionality in an effort to acknowledge the power, privilege, and perspective I am bringing into the therapy room using the BOLD ADDRESSING model from Roger Kuhn, PhD. 

I am a perpetual student, educator, and healer with a strong desire to research, experience, and better understand relationships and the human condition. I live in a white, short-statured, athletic body on unceded Lisjan Ohlone land within a multi-family community home. I am settling into early middle age with an acquired chronic pain disability. I am a former Christian with an open-mind towards spirituality and practices of Buddhism while holding an agnostic worldview. I am an 8th generation American with family lineage predominantly from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Germany. I identify as a pansexual, gender non-binary (GNB) femme who holds non monogamous relationship structures.