Where should you start?

At Killian Collaborative Therapy, we strive to affirm and center the lived experiences, intersecting identities, and full wholeness of every person who seeks out therapeutic services, regardless of what need or expression has you searching for support, at this specific time in your life.

The therapeutic relationship isn’t a one-size-fits-all relationship. The type of service you may decide on could be impact by what is happening in your life, what systems are most involved, or what kind of support or knowledge would be most applicable in that moment. Whether you would benefit from an individual and person-centered space, or a place where multiple members of your impacted community can process and collaborate to heal, the type of offered service you choose will be molded to fit your needs, wholeness, and experiences. This space is uniquely fit to you, while also having the ability to flex to a different configuration, should your situation change.

  • Individual Therapy

    Adults and anyone 8 years or older

    There is no complete and generalized explanation to describe exactly what your individual therapeutic sessions may look like at Killian Collaborative Therapy. We hold space for a wide array of humans: this includes adults, children over the age of 8, and young adults or teenagers. Individuals of all body sizes and shapes, LGBTQIA+ community members, from various socio-economic statuses, with various racial or ethnic identities, with physical, mental, learning, or developmental disabilities, and with non-western religious or cultural practices are embraced and treated as experts of their own experiences.

    Individual therapy could look like the exploration of internalized cultural narratives and norms, the unpacking of colonial wounds, the exploration of living life with a chronic illness or disability, the investigation of how being neuroexpansive impacts the way you move through the world and within relationship, the coming out process and gender/sexuality exploration, the learning of new skills to help you with something that causes you distress, how different relationships or systems have impacted various areas of your life, and/or much more.

  • Relational & Family Therapy

    Two or more relational members

    At Killian Collaborative Therapy, we hold a core belief that we exist within community and relationship with others. Because of this, our communities and families can sometimes need support to move through conflict or emotions that will inevitably arise. We frequently support family systems, chosen family relationships, friendships, or any relationships that may exist outside of what society deems “normal.”

    In relational and family therapy, we might work with participants to explore changing relationship structures, dynamics, or transitions, and the ways that these changes may impact each member of the system. We might explore different communication skills, methods of support, or even how to transition out of various types of relationship. We might explore conflict resolution, emotional attunement, or energetic boundaries. Whatever your goal may be for your relationships, Killian Collaborative Therapy will follow your lead.

    *I do not work with couples or sex therapy, at this time.

  • Supervision & Consultation

    Community within the healing profession

    I am a Washington State-Approved Supervisor, and I offer supervision to marriage and family therapy associates (LMFTA), based on supervisory fit. I only will supervise 2-3 associates at one time, due to wanting to contribute adequate energy into those relationships. Supervision is offered on a sliding scale; as supervision is a requirement for full licensure as a LMFT, I believe that access and equity should be prioritized. The deepest sliding scale spots will be held for those practitioners with intersecting intentionally-marginalized identities.

    I provide peer consultation in the areas of gender expansive experiences, gender-affirming care, sexuality exploration, neuroexpansive experiences, and grief, as they relate to specific therapeutic work. I will also provide consultation around death doula work, as it relates to those working with individuals navigating death, dying, and grief support, following human or animal death.

Other Therapeutic Information

I have been trained in and have experience using the following modalities, theories, or frameworks, in the therapeutic relationship. If one has resonated with you in the past, or if you’d like to explore something new, I invite those that I work with to take what is helpful and to provide feedback around what is not.

Narrative Therapy
Internal Family Systems
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Consent-based/Agency-based Frameworks
Decolonization/Decoloniality
Feminist Therapy
Polyvagal Theory/Somatic Experiencing
Autistic-affirming and Centered Therapy
Family Systems Theory
Attachment Theory
Liberation Psychology

I am a firm believer in the informed-consent model of gender-affirming care, for all individuals; you know what is best for you, when it comes to the way you move through the world.

However, not all systems operate under this model of care; most operate under the current World Professional Association for Transgender Health Version 8 standards. Because of this, you might need a letter from a licensed therapist at some point, to access the care you need. I provide these letters, through continuing therapeutic relationships or one-off evaluation sessions, on a need-informed or sliding scale basis.

(I am a member of GALAP. Find more information about them here.)

Gender-Affirming Care