I obtained my MA in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University and received initial training at San Fernando Valley Counseling Center. I also hold an MFA in Poetry from The University of Massachusetts Amherst.
With a lengthy background in the arts, I’m no stranger to the liminal spaces, uncertainties, vicissitudes, pains, and uncomfortable vulnerabilities that can accompany a life lived in pursuit of authentic self-expression. As a lifelong writer and musician well-acquainted with collaborative, structured, and improvisational creative settings, I find the work of therapy tremendously rich and rewarding in its emphasis on utilizing the subtle and intricate rhythms, energetics, and spontaneities of the present moment to shine light on how we might be stuck reacting to echoes of the past. It is an absolute honor to help clients unmoor from old and worn experiential regimes, access newer and truer selves in surprising ways, and find fresh and unfamiliar pockets of meaning and vivacity within familiar life.
While my warm and relational style has served a wide diversity of clients, I have particular interests in working with grief and loss, anxiety, depression, relationship discord, career difficulties, self-worth issues, existential and spiritual dilemmas, anger management, identity-based stress, life transitions, fear of uncertainty, addiction and dependency, and the pernicious lasting impacts of acute, complex, and generational traumas.
I look forward to learning more about you.
