Hi there! My name's Sylvie and my pronouns are she/her and they/them. I'm a licensed therapist and a white, queer, femme, Ashkenazi Jewish person. I am tender with people, tough on systems, and committed to our collective liberation.

I’ve been a mental health worker for eight years, and have worked in schools, at a crisis center, and as an individual and family therapist. My style is warm, holistic, trauma-informed, somatic (focused on the body), spiritually grounded, and mindfulness-based. My approach is shaped by my own lived experiences, as well as peer mental health, harm reduction, and healing justice—a framework grounded in economic, disability, and racial justice. I hold a lens that’s non-pathologizing, anti-colonial, anti-zionist, neurodiversity affirming, queer and LGBTQIA+ affirming, and sex, kink, and consensual non-monogamy positive. I also draw on my training in a range of dynamic and evidence-based modalities, including Somatic Experiencing, Emotional Freedom Techniques (or resource tapping), Internal Family Systems (or parts work), EMDR, Brainspotting, sensorimotor therapy, narrative therapy, liberation psychology, and restorative and transformative justice.

I offer individual counseling with youth and adults and relational counseling with friends, chosen and biological family, and partners of all kinds. I’m also particularly experienced in and passionate about providing therapeutic support to survivors of childhood abuse. I meet with clients throughout California on a secure video platform, or with local clients either in outdoor settings or my office.

I am a settler on occupied and unceded Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe land, also known as Santa Cruz, CA. I love making music, dancing, community organizing, and romping in the redwoods with my pup.