All of your emotions deserve to be felt, processed, and heard, unconditionally. As a queer therapist, I aim to help you feel present enough to fully experience what’s going on in your life—the heavy and the joyful, the messy and the unconventional. Through talk therapy and playful sprinkles of poetry, music, art, and improv, we can work together to create the safety you need to be vulnerable. I use narrative and mindfulness techniques to affirm that your story is worth telling, and you deserve to feel empowered to tell it.

I also firmly believe that therapy is a space where you can build agency, autonomy, and meaning, no matter what you’ve been through. Through creative companionship and compassionate insight, I will help you find your footing, and your personal power.

To me, above all, therapy is a recognition of humanity. It says, “You are alive and that matters,” despite or in response to the way systems of oppression or individuals within those systems may have harmed you. My hope is to create an affirming space where you feel safe to exist as your fully human self. 

pronouns: she/her
email: alyssasweeney@walnutpsychotherapycenter.com