ABOUT
I believe therapy works best when you can bring more of yourself into the room.
My approach is curious, engaged, and collaborative. I’m interested not only in what is happening in your life now, but in the experiences and relationships that have shaped how you understand yourself and connect with other people.
Therapy with me is a place to speak openly, think together, and become more aware of patterns that may be difficult to see from inside them. I’ll listen carefully, but I won’t simply sit back—I’ll participate in the conversation and help us look more closely at what emerges between us.
WHY I DO THIS WORK
I’m interested in the parts of ourselves that become clearer in relationship.
Much of what we struggle with doesn’t develop in isolation. The ways we protect ourselves, seek closeness, manage conflict, or respond to uncertainty are often shaped through our earliest relationships and continue to influence how we experience ourselves and others.
What draws me to this work is the opportunity to understand those patterns with another person. Therapy can give us a different kind of relationship—one where there is time to be curious about what you feel, what you expect from others, and what may be happening beneath reactions that have become familiar.
Understanding where a pattern came from can give us more freedom in what happens next.
HOW I THINK ABOUT THERAPY
The past matters, but so does what is happening between us now.
My work is grounded in psychodynamic and attachment-based approaches. This means we may explore earlier relationships and experiences, not simply to understand the past, but to recognize how those experiences continue to shape the way you relate to yourself and others today.
I also pay close attention to what happens in the therapy room. The feelings, expectations, hesitations, and patterns that emerge between us can offer another way of understanding experiences that may be difficult to recognize elsewhere.
Insight matters. So does having a different experience.
Understanding a pattern can be important, but therapy can also give us an opportunity to experience something new within a relationship—being more direct, tolerating vulnerability, expressing anger or need, or discovering that you can be understood without having to carefully manage how you are perceived.
TRAINING AND BACKGROUND
My work is informed by ongoing study of relationships, attachment, and the ways our histories shape us.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles. My training has emphasized psychodynamic, attachment-based, and relational approaches to psychotherapy.
I have also completed Level 1 training in PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy), an approach that integrates attachment theory, developmental neuroscience, and attention to what happens between partners in real time.
LICENSURE & TRAINING
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
California & Colorado
M.A., Clinical Psychology
Antioch University Los Angeles
PACT Level 1
Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy
READY TO BEGIN
We can start with a conversation.
A consultation gives us a chance to talk briefly about what brings you to therapy, what you’re looking for, and whether working together feels like a good fit.