Become yourself.

I work with people of all ages toward deep self-understanding and integrated wholeness that enables the living of an authentic, fulfilling life.

My approach is informed by relational and attachment perspectives. I use a psychodynamic modality to explore unconscious processes, mine childhood developmental experiences, and attend to curiously repetitive and unsatisfying relational patterns. With the use of these tools, we collaboratively undertake a heroic journey of self-understanding and transformative growth.

By exploring how your past attachment experiences and trauma impact your current dissatisfaction, pain, and confusion, we achieve meaningful insights that reshape your inner working models of self and other.

I am a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist with a masters degree in psychotherapy from Antioch University, Los Angeles, a Certificate in Psychoanalytic Listening from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, and extensive graduate coursework in psychology at Harvard Extension  School. I am trained in work with adults, couples, children and adolescents. 

My work and study in the area of childhood developmental informs my work with adults as well as children, since maladaptive coping mechanisms and harmful identity schema and relational patterns are often caused by complex emotional trauma endured in childhood. 

My training in various modalities of couples therapy and corporate executive coaching enhance my capacity to address both relational and career difficulties. 

You have come up against an obstacle in your life, be it personal suffering, distress within a romantic relationship, a turning point in your professional life path, or difficulty faced by your child or family. You need a safe and supportive environment within which you can work to discern the sources of your psyche's anguish and navigate a path through your distress. Whether you are afflicted by anxiety or depression, the effects of trauma, a mood or personality disorder, or confusing and painful relationship dynamics, I guide and accompany you on a journey of self-discovery and psychological integration.

You are capable of achieving the rich and unique life experience that your deepest and most authentic self is yearning to reveal to itself. We will work together to transcend your formerly adaptive coping mechanisms and identify more satisfying and valuable modes of deepening your relationship with self and others and finding joy and meaning in your life.