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I am trained in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). I help people who have experienced trauma heal from what happened and grow from it, too. I love working with teens, adults, parents, and couples. Our therapeutic relationship is the most important thing to me, and I work hard to create a space where clients can learn to trust. I am a Licensed Marriage and (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)) in California. I have also worked with individuals who need support as they move through life changes and transitions.

In my professional experience, people come to therapy when they are feeling unhappy, stuck or blocked in some way and feel that they have exhausted their available resources and coping mechanisms. My role as a therapist is to serve as a guide to help the client identify and express their needs and wants, as well as assist the client in recognizing their strengths and abilities to heal and grow. I work with clients to help them understand their past experiences and current situation in order to move forward and make changes to facilitate the life and relationships they want. I am warm, compassionate, collaborative and interactive in my approach.

You might look like you’ve got it together—but inside, it’s chaos. Anxiety. obsessive compulsion (OCD) spirals. Overthinking everything. Burned out but still performing. You’ve read the books, done the podcasts, tried to out-think the problem. And here you are, scrolling therapist profiles, wondering if anything will actually work. Good news: it can. But it takes real work, not just good intentions. I don’t do vague nodding or “tell me more about that” loops that go nowhere. I’m an active, direct therapist who helps you name what’s actually going on—and then do something about it. I’m Level 1 trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), which means we’ll work with your internal patterns instead of fighting them. For couples, I use Relational Life Therapy (RLT) to cut through blame, shutdowns, and power struggles. You’ll both be heard—but I won’t let either of you hide. One of my specialties is men’s work—real conversations about emotion, strength, connection, and not repeating what your dad did. I also work extensively with queer men navigating identity, shame, sex, dating, and how to belong in spaces that weren’t built with you in mind. These are two distinct areas of focus, and I take each seriously. My approach is collaborative, grounded, and unapologetically honest. There’s room for humor. There’s room for contradiction. There’s room for all of you—and for the version of you that’s ready to live with less noise and more clarity. If you’re looking not just for insight but for real, actionable change—and you want a therapist who will support that and hold you accountable to the commitments you’ve made to yourself—we’ll probably work well together.

Congratulations on your search for more meaning, more health, more intimacy, or a more vibrant life! I have been a psychologist for over thirty years and am grateful every day to do this work. I have been doing it long enough that I am good at what I do, and know what I can't do. I like to meet with people and assess together whether we are a good fit. I am direct, perceptive, intuitive, and straightforward. I have worked with many different kinds of people with different kinds of problems over the years and especially enjoy working with couples, women, therapists, people from minority cultures or orientations, and people who want to use the therapy relationship to heal. For people who are interested, I also do psychoanalysis, which is a more intensive form of therapy multiple times per week. I am a mother of an adult child, a lesbian, a gardener, and a long-term resident of San Francisco. Give me a call if you feel I might be a fit.

If you’re a woman who feels overwhelmed, scattered, exhausted, or like you’re constantly falling behind despite trying incredibly hard, you’re not alone—and you’re not broken. Many of the women I work with are high-functioning on the outside but internally struggling with focus, organization, sleep, anxiety, or emotional overload. Some have an attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) diagnosis; others simply sense that something has always been harder than it should be. I specialize in helping women with ADHD—or those who suspect they may have it—understand their brains, reduce shame, and develop practical strategies that actually fit how they think and live. Therapy with me is warm, validating, and deeply practical. Together we make sense of patterns, calm overwhelm, and build systems that support your real life.

We all need a relational-home, a trusted other who can help us grasp our hopes, our fears, and our sense of self through the ups and downs in life. The therapeutic relationship is the most important aspect of psychotherapy. For treatment to be successful, you need a space where you can feel comfortable sharing more of what's happening on the inside with someone you trust, who listens and can help you hold and digest your experience. You and I can encourage that environment by listening together as you share your thoughts and feelings, your bodily sensations, your current and past relationships, your dreams, your stories, and even the stories within your stories. I'll bring a style that is warm and unitive, combining psychoanalytic theory, Jungian psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and perspectives on healing from many different cultures and traditions. It is here in your relational-home, where we can be together, think together, make meaning out of your experiences, and ultimately find opportunities for symptom relief, growth, and healing.

My goal is to help you overcome whatever difficulties may have led you to be reading these words and searching for support. I strive to provide care that is specifically tailored to each person, as each person’s needs, experiences, and desires are different. I have experiences with a range of treatments including CBT, psychodynamic, DBT, compassion-focused, and mindfulness-based interventions, as well as individuals of diverse identities and backgrounds. Though it is important to me to ground all that work within trauma-informed and compassionate perspectives. I truly love this work and the opportunity to walk alongside folks on their journeys though life. Being a human in this world is hard, but finding a competent, supportive, therapist to help you through it doesn’t need to be.

*Trauma-Informed Specialty EMDR Certified* I have 2 primary practice specialties, serving both men and women: *One of my passions is helping women and their families through the life cycle transitions of fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause. I also help womencouples through perinatal loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, etc.). Support for new dadspartners is also under this umbrella of psychotherapy. *Another subspecialty I provide is helping clients who are leaving toxic relationships and healing from narcissistic abuse. I just published by first ebook, Soul Vampires: Reclaiming Your Lifeblood After Narcissistic Abuse, and I've published several articles for on all my practice specialties, as well as for my own blog at I take a team approach to helping my clients feel empowered to develop their goals for recovering through depression, anxiety, griefloss, trauma andor life cycle transition. My philosophy is very strengths-focused and client-centered. I offer a compassionate listening ear and psycho-education, in addition to other avenues of intervention. I provide tele-health for clients who are geographically far (through Regroup Therapy and Simple Practice)

You have spent a long time holding it together, but underneath, there is a quiet, persistent feeling that something about you is off or just not quite enough. It shows up in how hard you are on yourself, in a nagging worry that your relationship is in danger or that the people you love might leave. In the exhaustion of managing how you come across. You have tried to understand it. Maybe you have been in therapy before. But insight alone has not moved it. I work with people ready to go somewhere real, willing to slow down, go inward, and do work that actually reaches what is driving the pattern. My approach is relational and experiential. We pay attention to what is happening between us as much as what happened before. People often come asking for a specific technique and stay because of what unfolds in the relationship.

I am the expert on psychology; you are the expert on your life. We can only work together to reach your goals. Although I am a general psychotherapist, I work with: TRAUMAS: resolving past traumas, both 'big' and 'small' that create current unhappiness; MARRIAGE COUNSELING: Teaching couples how to be Loving Communicators; PET LOSS GRIEF COUNSELING: People and their pets experience a unique relationship unlike any other. When that bond ends, extreme pain and grief often results. Counseling helps get you through this sad period so that you can give your pet the legacy deserved. CANINE ROTARY MASSAGE: An animal assisted therapy that reduces stress, anxiety and depression.