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Chrysalis Counseling is a private practice counseling service dedicated to serving those moving through their own Chrysalis phase, from any and all walks of life - especially those within the alternative lifestyle umbrella.

10/16/2025

Maybe home is the place that carries us for now. Maybe, just maybe, home isn’t those four walls, but a transience where we meet our “home for now”, wherever, whoever, and wherever that be.

Maybe home is a feeling and mindset - a space where we create our world, a time and place curated to carry us in this moment, in whatever capacity it can, and then it isn’t “home” anymore.

Maybe there’s a reason so many places feel like home, because in that moment, they are. For however long, in whatever way, and for whatever reason.

There’s a home in every space, person, and experience, and whether we grow out of it or whether it no longer has something to give us, to teach us, that was “home” for a while, and that can be enough.

So, enjoy the view, soak in the moment, and allow home to be more than just where your bed is. 💜✨

09/30/2025

More fun reads and toys! Excited to dive in, learn, and grow as a human and provider. 💜✨

09/26/2025

“When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one’s suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.“

Herman Hesse

09/24/2025

Excited to share I am officially licensed in Oregon as well as Colorado. 💜✨

08/01/2025

I feel like I don’t do a great job of being present on social media. Probably largely because I don’t use it for marketing or anything like that - for me, social media platforms are for connection and intentional sharing.

Alas, I felt a pull to share a “normal” picture of myself - the therapist who shows up in session, without glam make-up, without curated outfits, and without other messy purple hair.

There’s something really special about being a human sharing space with another human - and that’s what I love most about what I do. I allow myself to be human, to show up in my strengths, my flaws, and everything in between.

I really love, and feel so lucky, showing up as whoever I am that day, in whatever condition my skin is in, and with all of my vocabulary - curse words and all.

I am grateful every single day for everyone who places trust and vulnerability in the shared space. For all the smiles, the tears, the wins, the challenges, the pain and sorrow, the “You’ll be so proud of me!”, the “I fu**ed up this week”, the “I’ve never said this to anyone else before”, the dating profile tea, the fur babies who partake, the human babies who coo and communicate their needs…all of it.

I feel privileged and honored - always - to be let in to your life and space, and I do not take it for granted.

I very, very proudly love what I do, and I felt called to share these inklings of thoughts with a quick selfie that shows the core of who I am, the space I show up in, and the love I have for all of this.

The world is hard right now, and it’s heavy. It feels hopeless, maybe helpless. Painful. And I am here to validate that, and also share glimmers of hope, that showing up as a raw human can contribute to cultivating humanness as we engage with others - permission to be human with one another. Permission to be who you are, your beautiful, inherently valuable self, and permission to show up as you are, in everything that you are.

Always in love 💜✨🫶🏻

07/01/2025

Empowering Q***r Youth: Addressing Bullying and Its Impacts

A course I created with love and experience from the front lines of working in the schools, for anyone and everyone who engages with q***r youth.

This course was created as a part of the “Q***r Youth Program”, an advanced training curriculum designed for professionals working with 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and their families. 🌈

Join me and some really, really wonderful q***r youth topic providers and get CE’s while you do it!

03/22/2025

Termination.

It’s such a heavy word that feels so permanent and powerful.

In this field I have the honour and privilege to walk alongside you for a while, until your next chapter or journey opens up.

I get the absolute joy of working with most people for months and years, and some for shorter blips of time. No matter the length, that last session, whether it’s for now or for the long haul, is always a bittersweet one.

For a lot of us, the folks we work with a build that relationship with well to week are people we share space with more frequently than some of our own friends and family. For many, our work hours are so much of our day to day and it’s all people work.

It’s meaningful and beautiful, and the transitions can be so very special and sometimes difficult or challenging for us, too.

Know that many of us, while we may be closing a door, are not closing it forever. That there may be opportunity to work together again someday, or maybe there’s a whim to want to send a picture of a pet update or an achievement - those doors are often open, and I can only speak for myself and those I know who share the sentiment: these are welcome even long after we no longer formally work together. Not necessary, but welcome.

Terminations is the formal ending of the therapeutic relationship, but it’s your next chapter, next new beginning.

Sometimes we’re only one mode of transportation on an extended journey, and what a fun ride it is to be a part of.

Gratitude, always. 💜✨

02/27/2025

I largely grew up in community.

What I mean by that is my family was made up of not only blood relatives, but villagers from the homeland (Italy on my maternal side and France on my paternal side) that knew each other before moving to Canada and saw each other through the massive shifts and adaptations that come with a move of this magnitude. It was made up of honorary aunts and uncles, cousins, neighbors, and friends from all over that my family cultivated over time as the village - our village. Literally, because many came from the same villages, and figuratively, because as immigrants they had to find their figurative/chosen family and network.

For as long as I can remember I was surrounded by people I understood as family, until I became older and understood that the family I had was largely chosen and necessary, in sorts, in order to survive the throws of being in a new place with different cultural norms and customs.

Much like the interconnected elements of an ecosystem, community thrives on mutual reliance. In nature, every part—whether a tree, animal, or plant—contributes to the system’s balance and survival. Similarly, my family’s experience as humans adapting to a new environment taught me that our survival and growth in a new place depended on the relationships we cultivated, not just with blood relatives but with a chosen network of people.

We were like trees in a forest, each playing a role in nurturing the whole.

In an ecosystem, each organism supports the others, ensuring resilience and adaptation. Likewise, in a community, every person’s support—whether emotional, physical, or practical—strengthens the whole. Today, as we face complex challenges, our survival, much like in nature, depends on the health of these interconnected networks.

In a time of disconnect, injustice, extreme hurt and violence happening, I invite you to be a beacon of community. To create it in ways only you can.

Just as no tree thrives alone, no individual can truly flourish without the ecosystem of relationships and support around them.

Yours in community & love - 💜✨

02/13/2025

Intentionally engaging in ✨slow dopamine✨ to practice pacing myself in a context with outcome to combat the hopelessness of the state of affairs.

Embroidery is totally new to me. A lot of learning and frustration along the way, a lot of undoing and starting over, lots of new skills and techniques - most/all of which require mindful presence. So, I’ve been turning on audiobooks and embroidering by the fire to ease my mind these days.

I encourage you all to do the same - whether it’s a skill/hobby/interest/talent you have, or something new to you, just do it.

Do it for the experience, and not to be “good” at it.

Do it to show your brain you *can* find completion and success in small and meaningful moments.

Do it to keep yourself sane and paced through this marathon of our reality right now.
something, and just do it.

💜✨

02/03/2025

I am mentally, emotionally, morally, and physically tired. I spent the majority of the weekend keeping my brain busy with crafting and finding pockets of dark humor in the horrors of what’s happening.

I’m not a “love and light” person. I’m a “panic and do all the things that feel tangible” person.

These days, what feels within my control is to acknowledge the brokenness and move through my day to day in peace and intentional love. To bring unwavering belief that there IS good out there, and that there is enough of it to combat the darkness.

The reality is that what has unfolded so far, and continues to, are incredibly scary actions and threats to many people’s safety - people who make up the breadth of folks I hold space for every day. I hear and see the horrifying impacts of administrative choices on a regular basis, and I promise you - it’s worse than you think.

There is no more “we’ll see”, there is no “it can’t be that bad” - we are seeing, and it is that bad (worse).

What I think is missing in the dialogue is, while time does not cure this or help it, intention does.

Holding meaningful bonds with other humans, showing love and unconditional support for each other. Recognizing that our biggest strength is each other - these are all critical to reclaiming power as a people, to showing that humanity and our genuine love for one another does not waver in light of fascism.

Fascism wants us to disconnect. It wants us to forget that we, as a people, as a community and group of beautiful people, hold power.

We. Hold. Power.

We don’t have their money or access to buttons they do, but we have voices, and altogether we have ground and power. Show up how and when you can.

So, this week, I challenge you to love yourself and others unconditionally. To be intentional in your day to day - examine what serves the cause and what powers the fascists. I challenge you to contribute to building community and showing compassion.

Be the resistance, made of love, kindness, compassion, and rage. Be the good, so we can outnumber the evil. Be the bees, who cultivate community so well.

It’s a marathon, but we’re in it together. Buckle up.

In love and community. 💜✨

01/26/2025

✨Slow Dopamine as Resistance✨

Listen. I’m human. I enjoy the instant rush of endorphins and satisfaction of impulsivities as much as any other person. I’m committing myself to practicing the art of slow release dopamine - the kind that builds up, presents opportunity for frustration and mistakes, for emotion regulation and self-forgiveness.

The kind that is intentional and reflective, from the heart, and authentic in its connection to me and my purpose.

Slow dopamine comes from practices and activities that are more time consuming and are generally also more rewarding. Partly because of the time, partly because of the outcome. The slow practices yield a meaningful product, something that came from articulated movement and poetic motivation.

That alone is worth…so much.

In this time of absolute profound fear and uncertainty for so, so many, channel the slow dopamine that connects to your heart - create something that speaks to some. Make something for yourself, for those around you.

The fight is long and we need to budget our energies accordingly - so slow the dopamine, be intentional, and foster a sustainable fight within yourself. You are integral to the organized efforts and actions - so, slow down so you can power up.

We need you, and we need your sustained dopamine. 💜✨

01/22/2025

This is a values statement, an acknowledgement of the pain and fury sweeping our communities as an administration with an obsession for control and power takes hold of the country so many have worked so hard to fight for and create a space of equity and freedom.

Freedom as a defined term is different than freedom as a fundamental principle contextual to American cultural patriotism - one of these upholds the inherent beauty in individual authenticity and importance of voice and perspective, and the other supports selective existence and hateful rhetoric.

As a clinician committed to empowering humans to shine in their authenticity, I cannot help but to be transparent about my views and the systems that directly impact myself and the people I spend hours with every single week.

You are all important, you are all worthy of safety in your presence and existence. You are the magic of this universe. I will continue to fight for all of us. 💜✨

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