About Me

photo by: Jeremi Hanson

I'M RYN they/them

(pronounced "rin")

I'm a trans/nonbinary/genderqueer/AFAB person and my experiences of cisheterosexism, capitalism, and white supremacy heavily influence the stance that I take when I show up in my work with clients. I see therapy as a liberatory space to resist the oppressive forces that stem from white supremacy and colonialism, including racism and anti-blackness, capitalism, ableism, xenophobia, transphobia, and fat-phobia. One amazing, inspiring human that I've gotten to work with once described our work as "co-creating freedom." I believe we are incredibly adaptive and creative in the ways that we support ourselves in coping with and healing from traumatic experiences. I trust that you are the expert of your own experience, and accept and welcome you and all of your parts, exactly as you are.

Before becoming a therapist, I've worked as a non-profit manager, a server, a bartender, a tutor, an after-school program manager, a barista, an advocate for women entrepreneurs, a basketball coach, a teaching assistant, and a Lyft driver.

I am guided by principles of gestalt psychology, liberation psychology, humanistic psychology, and Buddhism, as well as feminist, queer, and critical race theories. I'm vegan and lean enthusiastically toward non-violence, anti-capitalism, decolonization, and transformative justice.  I actively practice dismantling white supremacy in myself and healing from its impacts in community.