So nice to meet you!
Hi, I’m Colette. I’m a bilingual therapist, artist, and lifelong learner with over twenty years of experience in community mental health across the U.S. and Central America. My work has been shaped by real relationships across cultures, languages, and lived experiences — guided by the spirit of Ubuntu: I am because we are. Healing, to me, happens in connection.
My style is warm, relational, and collaborative. I bring steadiness, openness, humor, and care — and I work to create a space where you don’t have to shrink, translate, or explain the parts of yourself that deserve to be seen. Therapy with me isn’t about fixing you — it’s about exploring your experiences, your relationships, and the strengths that have carried you this far.
I also value creativity and play as part of healing — ways to expand what feels possible, reconnect with joy, and gently shift patterns that feel stuck.
My work has been shaped by years alongside immigrant, first-generation, and globally connected communities — and by a commitment to care that honors culture, identity, and lived context. I hope our work feels spacious and steady — a place where you can be fully human.
Outside the therapy room, I’m a parent, partner, artist, runner, and outdoor adventurer. These parts of my life keep me grounded and remind me that healing isn’t only about tending to pain — it’s also about nurturing connection, creativity, and moments of delight.
I’m honored to walk alongside you as you explore what healing can look like in your life — in ways that feel honest, connected, and true to who you are.
How I Show Up in Therapy
I’m a white, cisgender, heterosexual woman with educational and class privilege — and I’m also neurodivergent, coming to this work as a human being with my own history of struggle, healing, and growth. I name these parts of myself because our identities and social locations shape how we experience the world and how we meet each other in therapy.
My lived experience is not the same as that of many of my clients, especially clients of color — and I hold that with care and responsibility. Unlearning racism and examining my own bias and privilege has been a guiding commitment in both my personal and professional life. I have intentionally chosen to live and work in community across difference — not to claim understanding, but to keep listening, learning, and being changed by relationships.
I engage in anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice with the understanding that this work is lifelong and incomplete. I believe mental health is shaped by social and historical context — including racism, colonization, ableism, and other forms of systemic harm — and I aim to hold space for those realities in therapy.
I welcome open conversation about what it’s like to work with me, including how our different identities and experiences are showing up — and I approach those conversations with openness and respect.
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“Colette helped me find myself and helped me through the most difficult times of my life - she was so helpful.”
— Anonymous Client
