Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Sydney draws from a wide variety of experiences and approaches, working with her clients in the hopes of increasing agency, purpose, and meaning in their lives, and in the world. Sydney believes that the best healing work strikes a balance between developing new insights and capacities and decreasing distress in the here and now. With this, Sydney understands that many of our lived experiences often defy the limitations of prescriptive diagnostic frameworks. Instead, Sydney works to nourish open spaces where clients’ lived meanings may emerge in their full richness and complexity.
Sydney knows how important it is to apply a critical lens from which to view the structures that perpetuate our suffering through discrimination, objectification, and exploitation. Dynamics of power and privilege permeate every aspect of the world we live in and the therapy room is no exception. Sydney recognizes the power of liberatory frameworks in our healing, emphasizing the necessity of community-based healing that understands suffering—not as a function of individual pathology—but as intimately connected to the social environment from which it emerges. It is her strong belief that liberation and wellness are intimately intertwined and the psychological is always political.
Sydney believes that the best therapists are not detached technicians, but radicalized healers, responsibly committed to their clients, embodying qualities of social justice as well as humility, flexibility, openness, and warmth. We can not afford for therapists to choose to be silent about privilege, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, classism, ant-Semitism, weight stigma, ableism, and any other form of inequity or violence that is currently impacting the very humans we strive to work with and “heal.”
Sydney has a deep hopefulness about the capacity of human beings to endure, overcome, and transform their traumatic experiences. She hopes to be present with clients through their experiences of suffering and distress, help facilitate a process of meaning-making and healing, and provide the highest level of care across social and cultural differences. Sydney invites her clients to collaborate and explore the intricacies and uniqueness of the intersecting identities related to their lived experience and work within the therapeutic relationship to help empower them to live a life of authenticity and choice.
Sydney is from Seattle and identifies as a mixed-race, Creole and Caucasian, heterosexual, able-bodied, cis-gendered woman. She loves crafts like cooking, baking, and scented candle making as well as playing soccer and hiking with her dog.
Credentials and Education: Sydney is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate (LMHCA) and a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in the state of Washington. She earned her Master of Arts in Existential-Phenomenological Psychotherapy from Seattle University.
Sydney offers counseling in english to adults of all ages.
