Some aches don't
respond to achievement.

For the person whose competence has stopped protecting them.

You have built a life that looks right from the outside and have started to notice it does not hold you. The workshops, the books, maybe the ceremony work, something in you is asking for something deeper. A relationship, not a protocol. A descent, not a fix.

This practice is for people carrying a particular kind of grief: a parent lost to death, to estrangement, to addiction, to their own unmet needs, to emotional absence that had no name when you were small. The grief that has no funeral. The longing for a kind of holding you may never have known.

It is also for people preparing for or integrating psychedelic experience who want a therapist who takes both the medicine and what lives underneath seriously, and for people in tech, or leaving tech, who are ready to ask what the exhaustion has been trying to tell them.

Many people who find their way here recognize themselves in patterns that have names, anxious attachment, people pleasing, the compulsion to give without receiving, without yet understanding where those patterns came from. This is the work of going underneath them. Of reparenting the part of you that learned to survive by not needing. Of tracing what the medicine opened, or what generational trauma quietly handed down.

I am a queer, non-binary therapist. LGBTQIA+, kinky, and clients in non traditional relationship structures are welcome and affirmed here.

Reach Out

What it is like to be in a room with me.

I pay close attention: to the thing you almost said but didn’t, to the way your breath changed when you mentioned your parent, to the pattern you’ve repeated in every relationship but never named. I am interested in what lives underneath the story you’ve learned to tell about yourself.

I also pay attention to what the world has done to you. I practice from a liberatory, intersectional feminist lens, which means I will never treat your suffering as purely individual. The exhaustion, the grief, the compulsive competence, these did not develop in a vacuum. They developed inside systems that were not built to hold you. I name that. Because pretending the consulting room exists outside of power, race, gender, and economics is its own kind of violence.

I will not hand you a worksheet and call it healing. If you need support to get through the day, we will build that together. But we should not be stopping there. The goal is not to manage your symptoms so you can return unchanged to the life that made you ill. The goal is to understand what the symptoms have been trying to tell you, and to let that understanding change something real.

Sometimes what we need to listen to is internal. And sometimes we need to pay attention to the system we are living inside. I will not pretend that your suffering is only personal when it is also political. If the workplace is exploitative, if the relationship is extractive, if the structures around you were never built to hold someone like you, we will name that together. Healing is not only coming back to yourself. Sometimes it is about recognizing what was never yours to carry.

Your body is welcome here. What your shoulders do when you tell a certain story, the breath that catches mid-sentence, the tightness that arrives before the feeling does, I am listening to all of it. The body often knows what happened long before the mind has language for it. I take that knowing seriously.

This is not therapy that gives you tools to manage your life. It is therapy that changes the person living it.

How depth psychotherapy differs from CBT →

What the work looks like, over time

Every therapy is different. But there is a shape that depth work often takes, and it may help to know what you are walking into.

In the beginning, we are getting to know each other. I will ask about what brought you here, what you are hoping for, and what has and hasn’t worked in the past. We will talk about your goals, not as a checklist, but as a way of understanding what you are reaching for and what “better” might actually mean for you. At the same time, you are noticing what it feels like to be in a room with me, whether something in you relaxes, whether something resists, whether both happen at once. I am listening not just to what you say but to how you say it, and to what you leave out. What matters in these early sessions is whether something begins between us that feels worth continuing.

As the work deepens, we start to meet what brought you here, often not in the way you expected. The thing you came in calling “burnout” or “anxiety” or “I just can’t do this anymore” starts to reveal what has been living underneath it all along. Old patterns show up in the room between us. Dreams may get louder. The body may start to speak. This is not a sign that something is going wrong. It is a sign that the work is working.

Over time, something shifts. Not all at once, but the way a season turns. The grip loosens. The grief moves. You notice you are responding differently to the situations that used to flatten you. The version of yourself that you built to survive, the competent one, the performing one, the one who never needs anything, starts to feel less necessary. You may not be able to name when it changed, only that it did.

And eventually, the work begins to complete itself. Not because we have fixed everything, but because something has taken root in you that you used to need me for. You carry it with you now. Ending well is part of the work, and we will take our time with it.

The practical details

Sessions are $150 and are weekly, sometimes twice weekly. I see clients on Fridays, 8 AM to 4 PM. The work takes the time it takes, for some people that is a year, for others it is longer. We will check in together about how it is going.

I am out-of-network with insurance, which allows me to work without third-party limits on how often we meet or how long we continue. I can provide superbills for clients with out-of-network benefits. A limited number of reduced-fee slots are available, please ask if finances are a concern.

A clinician who came the long way around.

I am a queer, non-binary psychotherapist in Seattle working with people meeting the mother wound, with people preparing for and integrating psychedelic experience, and with clients whose high-functioning lives have stopped holding them. My practice is deliberately small and oriented toward depth.

Before clinical work

I spent years as a senior technical product manager building enterprise data platforms at companies whose names you would recognize. I know the particular shape of that life from the inside, the high salary that somehow is not enough, the competence that becomes a cage, the way burnout in that world is never just about work.

I did not leave tech because I failed at it. I left because I could no longer ignore what the exhaustion was asking me. And underneath the exhaustion was a longing for depth, for connection, for something sacred and magical. I have made the descent this practice is named for. I know what lives down there, and I know what it is to come back changed.

Training & orientation

My clinical thinking is shaped by the relational psychodynamic and psychoanalytic tradition. I practice from a liberatory, intersectional feminist lens and draw from feminist and perinatal theorists, somatic and attachment-based approaches, and the emerging clinical literature on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. My thinking is also shaped by sources that live outside the clinical literature: myth, ritual, the witchy, and the traditions that bring us back to something sacred. Closer to the earth.

I hold an MA in Counseling Psychology with a perinatal specialization, and I am currently seeking advanced training in psychedelic-assisted therapies. I maintain ongoing clinical supervision.

The best way to begin is to begin.

Initial consultations are free and take about twenty minutes. There is no pressure to decide anything. You can reach me by form or by email.

Send a message

Please keep this message general. If you would like to share anything sensitive, I will follow up through a secure channel.

Or email me directly

hello@lp-psychotherapy.com

In case of crisis

This practice is not set up for crisis response. If you are in immediate danger or experiencing a mental health emergency, please call or text 988 (the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline), call 911, or go to your nearest emergency room. Crisis Connections in King County: 866-427-4747.