About me
I go by Kishin. My pronouns are they/them.
My experience is that healing happens in relationship. As human beings, we do not exist in isolation. Our bodies, relationships, families, communities, histories, and environments continuously shape one another. We are living systems nested within larger living systems — and like all living systems, we possess an inherent movement toward wellbeing.
Life experience - in our homes, our work, our families, our histories, our society - can lead to patterns where that natural movement becomes misaligned. Therapy can help align the conditions under which connection, aliveness, and integration become available again.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher. Since 2011, I have been guiding therapy and change work with individuals, groups, and organizations.
My approach is grounded in mindfulness, embodiment, attachment-informed practice, and a deep respect for the ways our relationships, identities, histories, and environments shape our lives.
I identify as genderfluid, non-binary, and part of the transgender community. I bring lived experience alongside professional expertise to my work with queer and trans folks. I pair this perspective with a commitment to cultural humility and an understanding of how culture, power, identity, and belonging shape our bodies, hearts, and lives. These are not background context to the work. They are part of the work.
For more than twenty years, I have been a dedicated practitioner in contemplative traditions. I have maintained a daily meditation practice since 2004 and spent more than a cumulative year in silent retreat. The mindfulness I bring into therapy is not simply a technique or intervention. It is long-cultivated way of being present that shapes how I listen, relate, and accompany people through change.
Who I work with
Many people find themselves reflected in more than one of the descriptions below.
Queer, Trans, & Gender Expansive Folks
Whether you're navigating transition, questioning, coming out, or simply living as your full self in a world that often asks you to be smaller — therapy can offer a place to land.
People of Color
In addition to everything else life asks of you, you may be navigating experiences inseparable from race, culture, power, and belonging. I strive to create a space where these realities can be held and healed with curiosity, cultural humility, and care. Therapy can be a place to set down what no longer belongs to you and reconnect with your wisdom, vitality, and humanity.
Women & Femmes
You may be standing at a threshold and needing yourself again—navigating caregiving, illness, burnout, perimenopause and menopause, changing relationships, or wondering what comes next. Therapy can be a place to reclaim your wisdom, vitality, and right to take up space.
Artists, Activists & Changemakers
Artists. Creatives. Organizers. Activists. If you're committed to creating, building, or protecting something larger than yourself, I offer a space to sustain your vitality.
Clinicians, Healthcare Workers & Caregivers
Physicians. Nurses. Therapists. Social workers. Caregivers. If you spend much of your life tending to others and rarely receive that care yourself, therapy can offer a place to set down what you're carrying.
People Navigating Major Transitions
Illness and its aftermath. Grief and loss. Professional transition. Becoming someone new. If you're at a threshold you can't cross alone, this is a place to begin.
Relationships & Intimacy
Whether you're navigating intimacy, partnership, non-monogamy, or separation, therapy can help you create relationships that feel more honest, connected, and alive.
How I work
My work is grounded in mindfulness and informed by three interwoven perspectives: the somatic, the relational, and the liberative. Together, they help guide how I understand suffering, healing, and change. My aim is to help create the conditions under which greater integration, connection, and aliveness can emerge.
Mindfulness-Based
Mindfulness is the practice of bringing kind, curious, non-judgmental attention to present-moment experience. It develops the capacity for greater clarity and choice. In therapy, mindfulness is not simply a technique. It is an evidence-based way of relating to ourselves and our lives that creates space for healing, insight, and meaningful change.
Somatic
The body is one of the primary places where healing occurs. Together we work at a pace your nervous system can trust, cultivating greater capacity for presence, resilience, and self-trust. Lasting change involves more than insight alone — it involves the integration of mind, body, emotion, and relationship.
Relational
The therapeutic relationship is not simply a delivery system for techniques. It is itself a space where new experiences of authenticity, repair, and connection become possible.
Liberative
Our lives are shaped not only by personal history, but by culture, community, power, and belonging. I bring a lens of cultural humility to witnessing suffering within its larger context. In therapy, that means helping create the conditions for resilience, choice, and wellbeing to emerge in clear-eyed relationship to the world just as it is. Healing is not only personal. It is relational, collective, and ecological.