I offer coaching packages to support people living with type 1 diabetes, as well as for the partners, parents, family members, friends, and other community members who support them.
I have lived with type 1 diabetes for more than three decades, and I bring that lived experience into this work alongside my clinical training. I understand this reality both from the inside and from years of walking alongside others living it.
COVID-19 safety update: At this time, psychotherapy services are held virtually or in person (masked) with clients who are fully vaccinated.
Type 1 diabetes asks a lot of a person: constant vigilance, endless math, a body that doesn't always cooperate no matter how well you follow the rules, and a world that rarely understands what any of that actually costs. It also asks a lot of the people around a T1D person — partners learning how to support without hovering, parents trying to protect a child without over-controlling, family members sensing that something is different but unsure how to help.
This work is not diabetes education or medical management — your endocrinology team is still your resource for that. What I offer is support for the parts of T1D that don't show up on a lab report: diabetes burnout and decision fatigue, grief connected to diagnosis (your own, or your child's), the mental and emotional load of managing a chronic illness that never turns off, relationship strain around caregiving and control, and anxiety about the long-term unknowns — the parts I know both professionally and personally.
Too often, medical care treats T1D as a set of numbers and protocols to manage, with little room for the individual knowing, preferences, and lived context of the person actually carrying it day to day. Part of my vision for this work is to offer something different: a supported space where your personal needs, goals, and challenges are the starting point, not an afterthought to a clinical plan someone else designed for you.
This coaching is for:
Adults newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, or T1D veterans experiencing burnout
Parents and caregivers of T1D children or teens
Partners and family members learning how to support a T1D loved one without taking over
Anyone navigating diabetes distress, the mental load of chronic illness management, or the isolation that can come with an invisible condition
T1D can be a profoundly isolating condition — the people around you often can't see what you're carrying, and even well-meaning loved ones can struggle to understand what daily life with it actually requires. I'm deeply committed to reducing that isolation: helping T1D folks and their families feel less alone in this, building real community around shared experience, and growing public understanding of what this condition asks of the people living with it.
Scheduling: I see clients Tuesday through Friday, by appointment only. My in-person office day is Thursday. My focus is longer-term, depth-oriented therapy, and as such, most clients are seen on a weekly basis.
Finances: My fee per 50-minute individual therapy session is $200. My fee per 60-minute relationship and family therapy session is $250. I reserve a limited number of sliding scale spots, with priority given to queer and trans folks of color. I invite folks seeking therapy who have access to wealth to consider paying a solidarity rate (a self-determined fee above my standard fee), making it possible for me to extend additional and lower sliding scale rates to those with fewer resources. I am not in-network with any insurance policies at this time, but am happy to write you receipts or ‘superbills’, if your insurance plan offers out-of-network benefits.
A note on scope: This offering is coaching, not psychotherapy. It's a distinct offering from the clinical work I do as a therapist, with a different structure, focus, and set of professional boundaries. If it becomes clear that clinical mental health support would serve you better, I'll help you find the right referral.
Please contact me to schedule a brief complimentary phone consultation to determine if we are a good match. During this call, I will outline all relevant guidelines, including payment structure and other logistical considerations, as well as respond to any of your questions. At this point, we will schedule all four coaching appointments.