Meet Zachary

I believe healing happens when people feel safe enough to explore their inner worlds honestly—and supported enough to try new ways of being. My work is rooted in curiosity, respect, and the understanding that growth looks different for everyone.

As for my background, I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with experience providing individual and group therapy across outpatient clinics, hospitals, community organizations, and school systems. I’ve worked with adults facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and major life stressors. I value coordinated, ethical, and culturally responsive care.

My Approach

In sessions, I aim to include your own interests in your healing process. With this in mind, I integrate evidence-based practices with non-traditional approaches to therapy such as utilizing Tarot, video games, or Table-Top-Role-Playing games. 

My work often draws from mindfulness-based practices, EMDR and parts-informed approaches, narrative and meaning-making work, and creative and play-informed interventions. I aim to integrate evidence-based practices with systemic awareness, creativity, and respect for your lived experience.

I approach therapy and coaching with the understanding that distress does not arise in a vacuum. Capitalism, colonial histories, and ongoing systems of domination/oppression profoundly affect how we experience safety, worth, exhaustion, and hope.

Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with you?” we may explore:

• What has happened to you?
• What systems are you navigating or resisting?
• What parts of you developed to survive those conditions?

This lens allows us to work toward healing that is compassionate, contextual, and grounded in reality. We work to acknowledge both internal experience and external context. Therapy may involve processing trauma, exploring identity, navigating burnout, or reclaiming meaning in a world that often demands too much.

Value and Lens

My work is grounded in an LGBTQ-affirming, decolonial, and Marxist therapeutic theory. I don’t see mental health struggles as personal failures or isolated pathologies. Instead, I understand them as meaningful responses to lived conditions—often shaped by power, oppression, trauma, and survival within unjust systems. In practice, this means:

• We name systemic forces without blaming you for them
• We honor resilience without romanticizing suffering
• We work toward healing that supports both personal agency and collective awareness

You will not be asked to “adjust” to environments that are actively harming you without also acknowledging those harms. Therapy and coaching with me center dignity, consent, and respect for your full humanity.