Meet Chalice

Most of the approaches I use are insight-oriented therapies—they help you understand your patterns, emotions, and relationships to create space for self-awareness and choice. This kind of therapy can be especially supportive for neurodivergent clients. Alongside this, I use solution-focused therapy when clients need help navigating very specific practical challenges, and psychoeducation when clients are missing information or frameworks that could further support their process.

• Humanistic Therapy
  Focuses on the client’s present experience with curiosity and compassion, supporting self-acceptance and reconnecting with inner values—without trying to “fix” or pathologize.

• Psychodynamic Therapy
  Explores how unconscious feelings and early experiences shape current behavior, helping clients uncover hidden patterns and develop healthier ways of relating.

• Narrative Therapy
  Helps clients examine and rewrite the stories they tell about themselves, highlighting strengths and values to create new meanings and possibilities.

• Relational Therapy
  Focuses on how past and present relationships affect emotions and sense of self, using the therapist-client connection to build safer, more authentic ways of relating.

• Existential Therapy
  Supports clients in exploring life’s big questions—identity, purpose, freedom—and helps them find meaning and live according to their own values.

• Solution-Focused Therapy
  Centers on strengths and what’s working, guiding clients to take small, practical steps toward their goals—especially helpful when feeling overwhelmed.

• Psychoeducation
  Draws from current research to offer clear, relevant information about mental health, neurodivergence, trauma, and more—helping clients make sense of their experiences and feel more informed and empowered in their healing.

• Collaborative, Non-Hierarchical Healing
  Healing happens through mutual respect and shared power—not through hierarchy. Clients are regarded as the experts of their own experience. There is a commitment to acknowledging power dynamics, centering client autonomy, and creating space for feedback, disagreement, and repair. Safety, consent, and collaboration are essential conditions for meaningful therapeutic work.

• Communication Freedom
  Clients are supported in using whatever communication methods feel safest and most comfortable for them—whether that includes typing in chat during video sessions, stimming, taking pauses to process, moving or fidgeting, or other forms of self-expression.

• Gender Diversity and Expansiveness
  This practice affirms that gender is both a social construct and, for many, a deeply rooted aspect of self and spirit. All experiences of gender—whether binary, fluid, nonbinary, dysphoric, euphoric, or blended with neurotype—are valid. There is space here to explore gender in its fullness, including its intersections with systems of oppression, identity development, grief, and pride. Conversations about gender are welcomed, not avoided, and clients are supported in naming and reclaiming their truth.

• Neurodiversity and Authentic Functioning
  Every brain is wired uniquely, and that wiring deserves respect—not correction. This practice embraces neurodivergence as a vital part of identity, using both the neurodiversity paradigm and a client-centered interpretation of the medical model. Treatment is guided by the client’s experience, not by pathologizing difference. The guiding belief is simple: “It’s not a problem unless it’s a problem.” Therapy focuses on understanding how each client’s mind works, and supporting them in aligning with their authentic self—not someone else’s standard.

• Self-Compassion and the Power of Vulnerability
  Self-compassion is essential to healing, especially for those who have internalized harshness from others or themselves. Vulnerability, when held with care and respect for each person’s window of tolerance, is a bridge to connection and growth. This practice believes that change doesn’t require pushing past one’s limits—it comes from honoring one’s pace, being kind to oneself, and choosing moments of openness that feel right.

• The Validity of All Trauma, Across Time and Type
  Trauma is not defined by its size or category, but by its impact. Whether rooted in acute events, chronic stress, or inherited across generations, all trauma is real and worthy of care. This lens recognizes how past experiences—both personal and ancestral—shape the present, including identity, worldview, and relationships. Healing begins with understanding how these imprints show up today, and supporting change in the areas that matter most to the person.

• Late-diagnosed neurodivergent adult – Diagnosed with ADHD in college and Autistic in their mid 30s, Chalice understands the confusion, grief, and relief that can come with discovering one’s neurotype later in life.

• Living with an AuDHD brain – Chalice experiences a hypersensitive sensory profile and was unknowingly conditioned to mask natural ways of being to assimilate into the dominant culture. This history informs their recognition of the toll long-term masking can take and the courage it requires to unlearn it.

• Queer and gender-diverse identity journey – Came out as a lesbian in middle school in the 1990s, supported their spouse through their gender transition in the 2010s, and came out as nonbinary in their 30s during the COVID isolation era.

• Lifelong mental health journey – Lived experience of depression and anxiety in youth, shaped in part by growing up undiagnosed as an Autistic child in a world that didn’t know how to provide adequate support.

• Living with chronic migraines – As someone with an episodic but disabling chronic health condition, Chalice understands the unpredictability, isolation, and cumulative impact of living with an often-invisible disability. This shapes how they hold space for clients navigating chronic illness, dynamic disability, and bodymind fatigue.

• Grief and loss in early life – Losing a parent to suicide in childhood deeply shaped Chalice’s understanding of complex grief and the long arc of healing.

• Therapy as a mixed experience – As a teen and young adult, Chalice had therapy experiences that felt misattuned and pathologizing. These experiences drive their commitment to being a therapist who listens closely and holds space with care.

• First-generation college graduate – Raised by immigrant parents, Chalice carries lived understanding of cultural complexity, pressure, and navigating spaces not designed with them in mind.

• Donor conceived person – This experience helps Chalice appreciate the nuances of identity, origin stories, and the layered nature of family and belonging.