Meet Del

Hello!

My name is Del (he/they), and I love being a Marriage, Couple & Family Therapist Associate specializing in LGBTQ care. Some of my identity markers include: being white bodied, transgender (nonbinary transmasc), a Buddhist, a forever-student of undoing white supremacy culture, fat, invisibly disabled, HIV+, and so much more! 

One of my guiding values as a clinician is a belief in the concept of organicity, or the idea that when barriers are removed, all living systems (including ecosystems, families, and individuals), creatively and intuitively move towards healing. In therapy, I help my clients to explore the natural intelligence at work in both clients’ internal systems, as well as their family systems. Exploring these themes from an intergenerational, embodied perspective is my mission, purpose, practice, and calling.

My primary approaches

… include Experiential, Somatic, IFS, and Narrative theories. Many of my clients come to me to work with themes of boundaries and communication, gender exploration and dysphoria, family and developmental transitions, agency and self worth, ecological connection and the many griefs of white supremacy culture, as well as healing from a spiritual perspective. Whatever approach we take, you’ll find our work together reflecting your healing as a part of our collective healing, and your liberation bound together in the struggle for us all to be free. 

 I recognize that we all hold complexities in our navigations and experiences of the world. I approach therapy from an acknowledgement of the both/and of these experiences – that we all bring areas of wisdom and ignorance to the relationships in our lives. Let’s work together to expand your perspective, deepen your belonging, and explore the ground of your precious humanness. 

I welcome neurodivergent clients in couple and family systems to my practice. I am a neurodivergent-affirming clinician. Learn more about what that means to me on my FAQ!

Prior to becoming a family therapist,

I taught mindfulness in tech spaces with an emphasis on Diversity Equity and Inclusion. I regularly delivered talks on the reality of white supremacy culture in the workplace. I also enjoyed training large groups of people (upwards of 200, mainly white) to use mindfulness and self-regulation to facilitate long-term engagement in the work of undoing white supremacy in the workplace. 

In my down time I enjoy painting with watercolors, hanging out with my cat Red Bean (a regular Zoom guest), goofing off with friends and moving my body, watching Star Trek reruns, touching moss and admiring old trees, and watching the changing colors of clouds at sunset. 

As a Marriage Couple and Family Therapist Associate,  I am supervised by Jen Yerty, LPC #C4948