A space for deeper understanding and meaningful change.
Therapy offers an opportunity to better understand emotional patterns, relationships, and the experiences that shape how we live, feel, and relate to others.
Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, life transitions, or a general sense that something is no longer working, therapy can provide a space to think, feel, and grow.
HOW I THINK ABOUT THERAPY
Therapy can mean different things to different people.
For some, it offers relief during a difficult period of life.
For others, it becomes a space to better understand longstanding emotional patterns, relationship difficulties, or internal conflicts that continue to repeat despite genuine efforts to change.
My approach is relational, thoughtful, and individualized. I do not believe therapy is a one-size-fits-all process, nor simply a place for advice or symptom management. Meaningful change often involves deeper understanding, emotional experience, and the opportunity to encounter familiar patterns in a new way.
Understanding Patterns
Emotional struggles rarely appear in isolation. Anxiety, depression, conflict, loneliness, or feeling stuck often reflect deeper patterns in how we relate to ourselves and others. Therapy can help illuminate these patterns with greater clarity, making room for curiosity, understanding, and new possibilities.
The Therapeutic Relationship
Therapy is not simply a place to talk about life from a distance. The relationship between therapist and patient often becomes an important part of the work itself. How we connect, communicate, protect ourselves, or respond emotionally can emerge in ways that deepen understanding and create opportunities for meaningful change.
Meaningful Change
Insight alone is not always enough, but deeper awareness can create the conditions for emotional flexibility and lasting growth. Therapy is not about becoming a different person. It is about developing a fuller understanding of yourself, your emotional life, and the patterns that may be limiting how you live and relate.
ABOUT ME
Some people come to therapy with clearly defined concerns such as anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, or life transitions. Others arrive with something harder to name: dissatisfaction, loneliness, internal tension, or a sense of being stuck in familiar ways of living or relating.
Therapy offers a space to think more freely, feel more honestly, and better understand what may be happening beneath the surface.
I believe therapy is most meaningful when it combines psychological depth with genuine human connection.
TRAINING & EXPERIENCE
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Group Psychotherapist practicing in California.
For more than 15 years, I have worked with individuals, couples, and groups, helping people navigate emotional suffering, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and longstanding relational patterns.
My clinical orientation is relational and depth-oriented, informed by psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking. My training has included study at the Center for Group Studies in New York and the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis.
I am a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP) through the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), reflecting a particular commitment to understanding how relational dynamics emerge not only in individual therapy, but within groups and interpersonal life more broadly.
While training and credentials matter, I believe meaningful psychotherapy depends equally on the quality of the therapeutic relationship, emotional honesty, and the capacity to create a space where deeper understanding can emerge.
WHAT I OFFER
Find the support that fits you.
Individual Therapy
One-on-one work to understand patterns, heal old wounds, and live with intention.
Couples Therapy
Rebuild connection, deepen intimacy, and learn to navigate conflict together.
Group Therapy
Shared experience as a path to insight, belonging, and lasting change.
HOW TO BEGIN
A simple way to get started.
Reach out
Send a short message about what's bringing you in. I'll reply within 1–2 business days.
Free consultation
We'll talk for 15 minutes by phone — no pressure, just a chance to feel if we're a fit.
Begin the work
If it feels right, we'll schedule your first session and start where you are.
Take the next step.
For every reason to change, we have two more to resist. Resistance is part of the path. Let me help you start.