About me
Life is going to happen; we are going to experience joy and dread, trauma and grief, connection and heartbreak. It can be scary not knowing what’s to come.
We all have learned ways of handling the harder parts of life, whether it be by disconnecting, throwing ourselves into work, using substances, numbing out, acting out, or shutting down. Many of our ways of coping actually cause us to disconnect from life itself.
In my work, my hope is to help you learn to experience and tolerate the multitude of feelings we have as humans, and to find meaning in doing so, so that you may feel more connected with life itself. Through observation and exploration of your internal world—your thoughts, feelings, dreams, and fantasies—we will begin to understand how you feel, how you approach those feelings, and call attention to what it’s like to immerse yourself in the present. With a deep curiosity about your early life, we will explore what influenced your ways of thinking and being and begin to find new meaning and new experience.
In life, you have a choice: to continue to build on old patterns, or to invite change. By inviting change, you may find yourself in greater contact with what it feels like to be alive, to be human, to connect more deeply, love more intensely, create more actively, and experience joy more presently.
I’m a licensed psychotherapist with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University.
My clinical training began at Southern California Hospital in Culver City, where I worked with individuals experiencing severe mood and thought disorders. This experience grounded my work in thoughtful, compassionate care and strengthened my ability to sit with complex emotional experiences.
Following graduate school, I worked as a high school counselor, supporting teens navigating anxiety, depression, eating disorders, autism spectrum-related challenges, and difficulties with emotional regulation. Working closely with adolescents and families deepened my understanding of how early relationships, identity development, and attachment experiences shape how we relate to ourselves and others later in life.
I completed a two-year post-graduate training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy through the Wright Institute Los Angeles, where I received extensive supervision while providing in-depth psychodynamic therapy to individuals and couples. My work often focused on trauma, relationship conflicts, depression, and a deep sense of feeling lost, misunderstood, anxious and afraid of uncertainty.
In addition, I hold a Certificate of Completion in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) Level 1. EFT is an evidence-based couples therapy approach that helps partners identify underlying emotions and unmet attachment needs, creating deeper connection, trust, and emotional safety within relationships.
