Sessions are collaborative, grounded, and focused on sustainable change. We move at a pace that honors your nervous system while safely shifting stuck patterns and relational dynamics.

I listen for the story beneath the story—the emotions, pauses, contradictions, shifts in tone, what is expressed through the body, and the themes that begin to reveal themselves over time.

I try to understand what it is like to inhabit your experience from the inside—to come closer to how you experience yourself, your relationships, and your world.

Psychotherapy is more than conversation. The way I listen is informed not only by years of training, but by years of doing my own work. I have invested deeply in my own psychotherapy, and I consider that work essential to how I show up for another person. A therapist cannot continually meet another person’s experience with curiosity, openness, and acceptance without being willing to encounter their own. The capacity to sit with what is nuanced, unfamiliar, or deeply human requires a certain emotional maturity—and that maturity is not something that can simply be taught in a training program. It requires deliberate lived experience. Over time, you begin to understand that what may initially feel shocking, shameful, or difficult to say aloud is often simply part of being human. This doesn’t come from having all the answers. It comes from having spent years honestly facing yourself. There will always be another technique, certification, workshop, acronym, tool, or new approach promising to transform the work. Some can be useful. But none can replace the deeper work of knowing yourself. For me, that is the foundation. Before asking another person to look inward, I believe we must be willing to do the same ourselves.

I offer in-depth personal psychotherapy that is psychodynamically oriented. I work with adults individually, as well as with teens, couples and families virtually throughout California.

My work is grounded in psychodynamic and relational perspectives, along with somatic and experiential approaches—attending to both the complexity of experience and the individuality of each person. Additionally, I integrate evidence-informed frameworks including CBT, DBT, and mindfulness-based nervous system regulation to offer a fully customizable therapeutic process.

Yes, fully. Being an affirming therapist means more than just being "friendly." I actively center respect, understanding, and advocacy for LGBTQIA+ identities in my work, ensuring a clinical space free from judgment that integrates trauma-informed care and systemic resilience.