I am a white cis-gender heterosexual able-bodied female therapist, mother, Nana, wife, sister, auntie, student, teacher. I come from poor, strong, violent, Catholic people who emigrated here from Ireland and Italy in the 20th century. I grew up in San Francisco and now live in the Northwest on the ancestral home of the Coast Salish people. My family is multi-racial and we regularly grapple with hard conversations about race and privilege and power. I am an on-going student of exploring my own internalized white supremacy. I love to knit and garden and cook and hang out with my husband and two golden-doodles. My ideal client is one who wants to create close, significant, supportive connections with others in order to be the best individual she/he/they can be. My primary foundation is Narrative Therapy with an emphasis on Emotion Focused Therapy. Uncovering the underlying emotion and the meanings we make of our experiences helps us move from being victimized by our stories to re-authoring the meaning of our stories and thus allows us to have more helpful and authentic relationships with the people we love.