Hello and Welcome!

Therapy can be a beautiful place where you can learn and reflect more deeply about yourself. It can also be overwhelming and scary even for those who have been in therapy before. My hope is that we can create a safe place together to explore your inner most authentic self and allow it to grow. I feel great privilege and warmth when a client allows me to join alongside them on their journey towards transformation and understanding. I’m here to anyone who wishes to have another person witness their story and feel less alone. 

My Approach

I bring incredible warmth, empathy, and compassion to each and every session with a client. While my main theoretic approach leans more Psychodynamically, I like to integrate other modalities in order to be more client-centered. I have used interventions from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential-Humanistic Psychology, trauma-informed care, Strengths-Based Model, and Attachment Theory as well as mindfulness practices and art. However, because you are the expert of your own experience and uniquely different from others, I will tailor our time together to fit what will work best for you. I believe that collaboration is extremely important to therapy and strive to work with you in ways that feel accessible, comfortable, and safe. Therapy with me may also feel very relational; I like to check in on our relationship as therapist and client to see how things are feeling and how you are experiencing the therapy. If there’s something that’s working, let’s keep doing it! If there’s something that doesn’t feel quite right, I want to hear about it! What happens relationally within the therapy is often a mirror to what is happening in your day-to-day life. 

My Background and Experience

I graduated with a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at Dominican University of California (DUC) in 2023. I worked as a trainee as well as a Registered Associate at the University Counseling Services at DUC for two and half years. I worked extensively with culturally diverse undergraduate and graduate students coming from all different kinds of backgrounds and life experiences. Students presented with a range of different presentations, anywhere from relationship difficulties to anxiety/mood disorders to identity formation and much more. I myself am a first generation college graduate and loved being able to support fellow first generation students on their own college journey. My clinical training is rooted in Psychodynamic Theory and trauma-informed care, however my graduate program taught a multitude of theories and modalities. 

When my therapist hat comes off, you can find me taking long walks around my neighborhood or even traveling to a nearby city to walk around in a new neighborhood. I’m an avid knitter and love creating new pieces to wear or just wandering around a yarn store and touching all the different fuzzy yarns. I’m also a queer, neurodivergent, white woman originally from the Bay Area who loves taking part in and finding ways to be an active member of my communities. 

Areas of Interest

• Relationships and Family Dynamics

• Adolescence/Young Adulthood

• Academic/work Stress

• Anxiety and Depression

• Trauma (intergenerational, family/childhood, systemic)

• LGBTQIA+

• Body Image and Eating Disorders

• Codependence

• Identity Exploration

• Life Transitions