“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
-Rumi
As a queer child of Armenian immigrants living on Ohlone land, I have a deep understanding of the effects of displacement and colonization on our psyches, individually and collectively. I aim to help folks integrate these legacy burdens and wounds and mitigate the effects of interpersonal and intergenerational trauma.
I have been working in the mental health field since 2016 and am trained in relationship abuse counseling, EMDR therapy, harm reduction psychotherapy, and am IFS-informed. My approach is to connect with each unique individual, group, and/or family on a human level, attuned to their needs, desires, and goals for themselves.
It’s been an honor to serve a diverse range of folks in a multitude of settings like the San Francisco Suicide Prevention, various Bay Area schools, counseling centers, and residential treatment services like group homes and shelters as a case manager, peer counselor, and therapist.
I encourage you to contact me if you wish to learn more!
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
Wild Geese