My Journey
I didn't get here in a straight line. I spent years in creative work, consumer behavior, and social research, always trying to understand not just what people do, but why. That work took me all over: different industries, different worlds, all kinds of people. And what stayed with me was how different we look on the surface and how alike we are underneath. Different lives, different pressures, different ways of looking like we have it together. But so many people, whatever their circumstances, are quietly looking for the same thing: some kind of peace, a sense that their life actually makes sense.
Eventually, those questions felt too personal to keep studying from a distance. I wanted to explore them with people, not about them, so I trained as a therapist.
Who I Work With
People come to me for different reasons. Sometimes it's someone in their 40s or 50s, successful by every visible measure, who can't explain why they feel flat, or why the accomplishment they worked for doesn't feel the way they expected. Sometimes it's the sense that everything is moving too fast: constant decisions, deadlines, and change, and you can't remember the last time you felt caught up. And often, it's work that has quietly taken over. The career that was supposed to give you a life has become your whole life. And what you want, underneath all of it, is simpler: a slower pace, more time with the people you love, the life you pictured when you started.
I'm especially drawn to the bigger questions: what actually matters, and what a meaningful life looks like for you, not the version you were told to want.
EDUCATION
B.A., Communication — City University of New York
M.S., Social Research — Hunter College, New York
M.A., Clinical Counseling — California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego
ACCREDITATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #15514, California
Member, American Counseling Association (ACA)
CLINICAL TRAINING
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy | Attachment-Based
EMDR training, EMDRIA (EMDR International Association)
Gottman Level 1 Trained Couples Therapist (The Gottman Institute)
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) Training
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD Training (Cognitive Behavior Institute)
Building Trust
I don’t take it lightly when someone trusts me with the parts of themselves they may not feel comfortable sharing elsewhere.
In session, I’m less interested in the symptom you walked in with than in what it’s protecting or pointing to.
Long before I became a therapist, I was where you are, so I know what it's like. A lot of my work is with trauma, and I've seen how often it shows up in the body first: the tight chest, the jaw you didn't know you were clenching, the reaction that hits before you can think. So much of what people carry isn't something they can explain. It's something their body is still holding onto.
When we're working together, I'm fully there. I laugh when it fits, and I let silence sit when it needs to. Sometimes I share a little of myself, because I don't believe healing happens behind a mask.
My approach is psychodynamic and relational. In practice, that means I pay close attention not just to what you’re saying, but to what’s happening in the room as you say it. I’ll name what I’m noticing when it seems useful, and we figure out together what it means. The goal is for you to leave each session understanding yourself a little more clearly than when you walked in.
“Insight is a moment. Change is what you do with it.”
Finding the right therapist matters more than finding any therapist, and reaching out is the first step. If we talk and I'm not the right fit for what you need, I'll tell you honestly and help point you toward someone in my network of trusted colleagues who is.