A Positive & Holistic Approach

A key tenet across much of my life is balance. That’s why you’ll find much of my approach is a constant dynamic between slower, deeper healing modalities that go below surface-level tools to actively address the root of the issue, alongside more positive, active, and even coach-like approaches that help clients actually integrate and take action on new learning.

I’m also often blending traditional talk therapy with evidence-based practices such as EMDR, IFS, CBT and Mindfulness, as well as more creative or imaginative techniques. Almost no session looks the same!

Like many therapists, therapy is not my first career. After graduating UC Berkeley, I advanced through a corporate career in tech & marketing in both San Francisco and New York. It was my own experience with anxiety and burnout that led me to finally take a step back and, after a sabbatical to travel and teach yoga, I spent several years helping other career changers and leaders in organizations find more purpose and balance through several years as an executive, life, and career coach.

These experiences, along with outside training and education in positive psychology, mindfulness, yoga, and more, continue to both inform my work and help me understand clients in high-stress and high-achieving fields, as well as help clients find new perspectives and ways of being that often stretch and expand the current limits of their thinking.

Further TrainingS:

Specialized Coursework:

EMDR Therapy
EMDR Basic Training, 5-Day Intensive, EMDR Consulting, 40 CE credits (2024)

Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS Online Circle: Foundations of the IFS Model, 40.75 CE credits (2023)

Child-Centered Play Therapy
Play Therapy Online Training Academy, 24 CE credits (2023)

Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy
Dr. Sue Johnson's Intensive Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy: Attachment-Based Interventions for Couples in Crisis, 16.75 CE credits (2022)

Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy
Introduction to the Hakomi Method, 12 CE credits (February 2022)

TF-CBT
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, 11 CE credits (August 2020)

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  Antioch University, Los Angeles (2021)

• Grief & Bereavement for Adults and Children
  Antioch University, Los Angeles (2021)

• Mindfulness in Clinical Practice
  Antioch University, Los Angeles (2020)

• Gestalt Theory and Therapy
  Antioch University, Los Angeles (2020)

• The Science and Application of Positive Psychology
  Harvard Extension School (2019)