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 (a term I first learned from bell hooks).

I’ve been a mental health worker for nine 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 draw on 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), sensorimotor therapy, narrative therapy, liberation psychology, and restorative and transformative justice.

I also offer a trauma-oriented technique called EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. I am trained to do EMDR both virtually and in-person. To learn more about EMDR, please reach out or find more resources here.

I offer counseling to individuals as well as to friends, chosen and biological family, and partners of all kinds. 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 the occupied and unceded land of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe, stewarded by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and currently known as Santa Cruz, California. I love dancing, community organizing, and romping in the redwoods with my pup.