About the Human

I utilize a combination of my personal, professional, academic, and community experience to inform the offerings you find here. I like and do and believe a lot of different things, so it’s important to me that I’m transparent about my background and experience—so you can confidently choose the kind of support that works for you.

Here are some lenses of experience that my support comes from: 

• Coven organizer, 2020-Present

• MA in Psychology, 2020. I specialized in Community Psychology and left the clinical program for a variety of reasons, including an interest in research. My thesis was a 40-person study analyzing positive and negative influences on fat people’s body image and everyday strategies for fat empowerment.

• Tarot student and reader, 2017-Present

• Zine fest organizer, 2017-Present

• Workshop organizer and facilitator, 2015-Present. My specialities are zine making and fat empowerment.

• 12 Step recovery, 2014 with a “sober birthday” of June 2016, sponsoring since 2017, Conference Committee co-chair since 2020.

• Open mic organizer and host, 2014-2020. Pending post-COVID revival!

• Roller derby coach, 2013-2020.

• Sex educator and writer, 2012-2020

• BA in Film, 2011. Surprise, surprise! I’m an art school kid. I even went to an arts high school too.

• Resident Assistant, 2009-2010. If you don’t know what this means: I ran a couple floors of the dorms in college and it was the best first community training I didn’t even know I needed.

• Therapy client, 2002-Present

And here are some more words that I use to describe myself: fat, queer, non-binary, fluid, neurodivergent (I have bipolar I and anxiety), recovering "addict", Jew-ish, witch, weirdo, animal-lover, artist, writer, partner, friend. 

Find out all the ways we can work together in the offerings section. You can also always reach out through the contact form or by email at healedaf@gmail.com.