I am a licensed clinical psychologist who values the opportunity to connect deeply with other humans and help with their journey of healing and feeling most authentically themselves. My passion and experience lie in working with individuals, couples, and groups with clients from diverse ethnicities, races, nationalities, sexual orientations, and gender identities. For the past 15 years, my clinical experiences have ranged from private practices and college counseling centers to an outpatient clinic on the Facebook/Meta campus and a state hospital. I bring warmth, acceptance, trust, and empathy into my work.
I believe that in our early life or in times of great difficulty or trauma we do what is necessary to survive, and while these tactics were once essential for us to cope they can come to no longer serve us. I help clients uncover how these tactics they once needed to employ may now be blocking their full aliveness, connection to their emotional experience, and ability to form nourishing and sustained relationships with others. I accompany clients in unpacking beliefs about themselves they may have internalized and help them learn to relate to their thoughts differently. I support clients in processing emotions they may never have previously felt safe enough to explore, which allows for the discovery of more nourishing ways of relating to themselves and others.
I have a strong passion for couples therapy and have developed a niche in working with not only monogamous couples but also the unique challenges that ENM/ polyamorous couples face. I have advanced training in Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, which guides my couples therapy work.
And finally, the love of my career is facilitating Interpersonal Process therapy groups. I believe strongly that group therapy is one of the most powerful modalities that exist in helping patients transform their lives . I am dedicated to lifelong learning as a group leader, and I receive mentorship from a Modern Analytic Group Therapy lens.
I work from a framework of acknowledging and exploring the impact of systemic oppression, racism, and trans and homophobia on the mental health of marginalized folks, particularly POC and queer communities. Acknowledging these oppressive systems and their impact infuses all the work I do.
Above all, I am collaborative, warm, and curious. I can’t wait to connect with you!
