“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

~Maya Angelou

My Approach

My work is centered on building a partnership based on trust, compassion, and the profound need to feel seen and understood. I believe therapy supports us in living the life story we want to tell, and that the therapeutic journey consists of a few key steps:

  • Awareness: We'll identify the ways you have learned to hide or hold back your most authentic self, wants, and needs and identify the gaps between the life you're living and the one you want.

  • Discovery: We’ll uncover your skills, strengths, and superpowers, while also identifying your maladaptive behaviors, instinctual defenses, and communication patterns keeping you stuck.

  • Practicing: You will learn and practice new ways of showing up for yourself and others, and figure out how to make those changes last.

While I will aid and accompany you, our work will be collaborative and involve you tapping into the inner wisdom and tools you already possess.

As an integrative therapist, my work is informed by a diverse range of modalities. I offer individual counseling and couples therapy customized to your unique situation. I am committed to a trauma-informed, culturally humble, and client-centered approach that honors you as the author of your own story.

I serve clients throughout the state of California via telehealth. My physical office locations are in San Francisco and Walnut Creek. This makes my services accessible to those in the broader Bay Area, including residents of Oakland, Berkeley, Concord, Lafayette, and Orinda, as well as other cities in Contra Costa County.

Therapeutic Modalities

  • Humanistic Psychology

    Every person, couple, and family has a unique story, so I don’t believe in cookie-cutter approaches to therapy. I will support you through Person-Centered Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) as you connect more deeply to your emotions and inner wisdom - that intuitive part of you that always knows the way.

  • Attachment-Based Therapy

    Sometimes, to write a new chapter, we must re-read those that came before. We will explore the most impactful relationships of your past to uncover any attachment wounds that may be holding you back in the present. For couples, we will look at how your early attachment agreements are influencing your current relationship and relieve any subconscious needs to re-enact harmful patterns.

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    Gaining awareness of the stories and thoughts that no longer serve us can be liberating. Through mindfulness-based CBT, you will become more aware of your automatic thoughts, feelings and beliefs and we will practice ways for you to let go of those that no longer serve you, putting the pen back in your hands.

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy

    Gottman Method Couples Therapy is a research-backed approach to couples counseling that helps improve communication, intimacy, and conflict resolution. I will partner with you to identify relationship patterns that are keeping you stuck in conflict cycles and teach you new ways to approach conflict and to build a relationship that brings in greater appreciation and shared meaning.

  • Somatic Experiencing

    After trauma, adverse experiences, or the stress of everyday life, our nervous systems often need a check-in or tune-up. Somatic interventions can reveal how your body is holding on to stories or defense mechanisms that no longer serve you. Through tracking bodily sensations, gentle trauma processing, breath work, movement, and visualizations, we will slowly and safely foster an environment for you to find relief and help your nervous system find balance.

  • Psychodynamic Therapy

    Through a psychodynamic lens, we will incorporate talk therapy to help move unconscious thoughts to consciousness. Then we can unpack and understand how these thoughts are helping or hindering you so that you have more control over your story. I also incorporate Internal Family Systems (IFS or parts work), to help you gain a greater awareness of any protective parts and their origins with the goal of unburdening them from overworking to protect you.