Intersectionality & the Depths of the Self.

Depth psychotherapy invites us to journey inward—to the deep waters of psyche where personal experience meets the collective, and where the stories we carry about who we are intersect with the histories, cultures, and systems that have shaped us. Healing from this depth means engaging both the inner and outer worlds: the unconscious patterns we inherit and the social forces that influence how we move through life.

At Rainwater Counseling, I believe that intersectionality—the interconnected experience of race, gender, sexuality, faith, class, ability, and culture—is central to understanding the human soul. Our identities are not separate from our wounds, nor from our strengths. In therapy, we attend to both: how structures of power and belonging have shaped your story, and how resilience, creativity, and ancestral wisdom have helped you endure and evolve.

My Approach.

• Inclusive and Affirming Stance
  I welcome clients of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, faith traditions, body sizes, and abilities. Every aspect of who you are is invited into the room. My commitment is to provide a space of safety and respect where you do not have to fragment yourself to be seen or heard.

• Cultural Humility
  Cultural competence is an ongoing practice, not a fixed achievement. I approach our work with openness and humility—listening deeply to your lived experiences rather than assuming expertise over them. Our conversations may include exploring cultural identity, generational trauma, or systemic influences that shape your story and sense of self.

• Intersectional Depth Work
  Drawing on Jungian and post-Jungian frameworks, I attend to how the personal unconscious intersects with the collective and cultural unconscious. Together, we may explore how archetypes and inherited narratives are influenced by cultural history and social systems—how myths of belonging, beauty, or power are experienced differently across identities.

• Exploring Identity Through Narrative and Embodiment
  Using narrative therapy, mindfulness, and somatic awareness, we give voice not only to the pain of exclusion or marginalization but also to the vitality and wisdom within each identity you carry. Healing includes reclaiming the right to name your own story, inhabit your body fully, and find meaning in your lived experience.

• Commitment to Equity and Ongoing Learning
  My practice continues to evolve through training, consultation, and personal reflection focused on anti-racist, feminist, and LGBTQIA+-affirming psychotherapy. I actively seek to understand how systems of power and cultural conditioning influence both therapist and client, and how we can work together to create relational repair within that awareness.

Academic & Philosophical Foundations.

My doctoral research, The Rosa Myth: A Feminist Reading of Rosa Luxemburg in Twentieth-Century German Culture, examined the intersectionality of faith, gender, ability, ethnicity, and cultural politics—exploring how personal and collective myths shape identity, belonging, and resistance. This work continues to inform my clinical practice today, grounding my approach in a deep understanding that individual healing cannot be separated from the cultural, historical, and political contexts in which it unfolds.

In Our Work Together.

Clients from historically marginalized communities often express relief in finding a therapist who recognizes that identity and culture are integral—not peripheral—to depth work. Whether we are exploring racialized trauma, the experience of being “othered,” or questions of belonging, our work together honors your story as both uniquely personal and profoundly human.

Depth psychotherapy, at its heart, seeks wholeness—and wholeness includes every part of who you are.

Statement of Inclusion & Belonging.

At Rainwater Counseling, every story and every identity is welcome.
I honor the wholeness of each person—body, mind, and spirit—and affirm the inherent worth and dignity of people of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, faiths, abilities, and bodies. Healing begins in belonging, and belonging begins when we are seen as we truly are.