Supervised by Licensed Therapist Lynnea Molina, LCSW #81451

Who am I as a Therapist?

I’m a relational, trauma-informed therapist who works from a systemic lens, helping you explore patterns, identity, and relationships within the context of culture and your lived experience. I specialize in trauma, relationships, and body-based healing, and I create a space that feels both grounding and gently challenging.

As a therapist, I am consistently moved by the human capacity for growth, insight, and transformation—even in the most difficult circumstances. I’ve been honored to sit with clients in deeply vulnerable moments, and I’m continually reminded of how healing happens through relationship.

My work is centered on your needs and goals. I see you as the expert of your own life and aim to support both insight and practical skill-building along the way.

My experience as a queer, neurodivergent, and fat woman has informed my approach, and I stay grounded in anti-oppressive, feminist, and culturally responsive frameworks. I believe effective therapy must honor the complex realities of race, culture, gender, systemic oppression, and intergenerational trauma. I hold these truths with care, approaching your story with curiosity, respect, and cultural humility.

Therapy with Me Is…

Relational, collaborative, and grounded in a systemic understanding of your life.

I believe the therapeutic relationship is a core element of healing and change. This means I aim to build an authentic relationship with you—one where we can hold both playfulness and depth, while also making space for the harder, more vulnerable parts of your experience.

I balance warmth, curiosity, and respect with the kind of thoughtful challenge that supports meaningful growth. Together, we’ll move at a pace that feels supportive while also inviting you into greater awareness, connection, and change.

In therapy, we can:

• Explore the dynamics of your internal world and relationships

• Understand how your past influences your present

• Clarify what is unspoken but communicated through emotions, behaviors, and patterns

• Use somatic tools for nervous system attunement and grounding

• Build relationships that feel secure, empowered, and deeply connected

• Slow down to access emotions that may have been cut off, supporting more open and authentic expression

The Clients I Connect Best With…

I tend to connect well with clients who are willing to engage in the process of growth and self-reflection, even when it feels unfamiliar or uncomfortable.

This might look like:

• Exploring your role in patterns and taking agency in your change process

• Engaging in reflection both during and between sessions

• Slowing down to build foundational skills for regulation, insight, and connection

• Being open to discomfort as a meaningful part of change

My Core Areas Are…

• Trauma, including intergenerational, collective, historical, and attachment-based trauma

• Grief, including ongoing grief related to the COVID-19 pandemic

• Relationship work with individuals, couples, poly relationships, families, and chosen family systems

• Repairing relational ruptures and building secure attachment

• Exploring identity within social, cultural, familial, and institutional contexts

• Body and health grief, including chronic illness and size-based discrimination

• Supporting a more compassionate and connected relationship with your body

What You Might Experience During Treatment with Me…

My approach is integrative, relational, and grounded in evidence-based practices. I view individuals, couples, and families through a systemic lens, exploring how attachment needs, culture, and broader social contexts shape your experiences.

Together, we may:

• Build emotional regulation and communication skills

• Explore how early experiences shape your current relationship patterns

• Examine protective strategies and how they developed

• Increase awareness of your internal world and relational dynamics

• Access deeper, more authentic parts of yourself

I draw from a range of therapeutic frameworks, including family systems, psychodynamic, humanistic, emotion-focused, and narrative approaches, allowing our work to be tailored to your unique needs.

As therapy deepens, many clients experience:

• Greater self-awareness and insight

• Increased emotional regulation and resilience

• More secure and fulfilling relationships

• Greater self-compassion and flexibility in responding to challenges

Additional Trainings

My work is influenced by advanced training in:

• Systemic Theory

• Attachment-Based Family Therapy

• Couple and Family Therapy for LGBTQ+ Clients

• Mental Health First Aid

• Psychological First Aid

Beyond My Clinical Work…

My lived experience as a queer, neurodivergent, and fat woman continues to shape how I understand identity, embodiment, and healing. I bring this perspective into my work with a commitment to anti-oppressive care, cultural humility, and honoring the full complexity of each person’s lived experience.