ABOUT ME
PROFESSIONAL LIFE
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, practicing from a psychoanalytic and depth-psychological perspective, and a candidate in psychoanalysis at LAISPS. I received my master's degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. My master's thesis, The Dimensions of the Void, conceptualizes the void as an internal psychic structure, or absence of structure, and explores its place in both development and self-destruction.
My experience as a therapist has led me to work with couples, teens, children, and adults in community mental health programs, elementary schools, and private practice. Through my work at Teen Line, I received training in suicide prevention and crisis intervention. Additionally, I completed a one-year Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program at LAISPS and have trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Brainspotting, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. I regularly seek consultation and professional development to better meet my patients' needs. All of my training and academic interests come into the room with me, along with my own lived experience, and shape a relational, humanistic, and trauma-focused approach to psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
MY APPROACH
WHO I WORK WITH
Every person is unique, and as such, psychotherapy is highly individualized. While honoring each person’s individuality, I also recognize that as human beings, we are not so different from one another, and many of our sufferings run in similar veins.
Many people come to therapy just wanting to feel better. Other times, we come to therapy not knowing quite what to say, or even what is wrong. I work well with people who are navigating their identity and how it can be expressed in the world, processing early childhood wounds, understanding neurodivergence, struggling with suicidal ideation, grappling with religious trauma, working through grief and loss, and pondering life transitions. As a former designer, I have a unique insight into the creative experience, which allows me to provide empathy and understanding to creatives struggling to express themselves fully.
Common diagnoses and symptoms might include ADHD, Complex trauma, dissociation, OCD, depression, and anxiety, among others.
WHAT IT’S LIKE IN THE ROOM
Psychotherapy involves some combination of curiosity, insight, rigor, and something less concrete that arises through the the focused attention of two people and their unconsciouses at play. Therapy offers what solitary effort cannot—another person's attention and care, and with it the slow growth of a capacity to hold what once could not be held.
In session, we focus on alleviating symptoms by looking at everythig presented in the room, dreams, memories, and even the way we relate in the room. This can make therapy rich, exciting, and transformational. It can also stir up conflict and worry, and feel a bit awkward at times. We'll work through these things together.
I work collaboratively, helping people recognize patterns of relating, discover their emotional depths, and make meaning from experience, so they can meet their inner and outer worlds with expanding awareness and compassion. What I can promise is to be an attuned, curious, empathetic, and occasionally humorous guide through it.
ON BECOMING A THERAPIST
The process of becoming a psychotherapist was something of a slow burn. Before becoming a therapist, I worked as a designer for fifteen years. In my professional life, I noticed that what most excited me was working with others to create something unique together, and using my intuition to research the trends that drive the design process. As my career progressed, I had the growing sense that something was missing, and eventually, I transitioned to interior design. This foreshadowed the idea of becoming a therapist—switching from designing a person’s physical home, to helping shape someone's interior sense of self.
In design, “form ever follows function.” This training shaped how I approach the psyche, knowing that the form of a thing points to what is structuring it beneath the surface, if we can start to sense it. Psychotherapy explores these questions—what do we reveal openly, what have we decided to hide from ourselves and others, what internal spaces have we forgotten, where did it all begin, and why do we carry on our lives in this way? I love this work, and I bring close attention and clinical rigor to it, making room for the complexity and conflict that arise along the way.
ADVANCED TRAINING
Current candidate in psychoanalysis at Los Angeles Institute and Society of Psychoanalytic Studies. Completed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program (2026)
PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Therapist trained in suicide and crisis intervention techniques to assist teens at Teen Line, a crisis hotline for peer to peer support.
TEEN LINE RESOURCE ASSOCIATE
EFCT
Foundation, Externship, and Sex Therapy Trainings in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
BRAINSPOTTING
Brainspotting Phase 1, Phase 2, and Expansion Trainings
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and Integration Trainings through Fluence
KAP
JUNGIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Attended conferences on Jungian concepts through the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles
EDUCATION
PACIFICA GRADUATE INSTITUTE
MA Counseling Psychology with and emphasis in Depth Psychology
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
BS in Fashion Design from the school of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning
UCLA
Interior Design Foundations Program
AFFILIATIONS
EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY CENTER OF LOS ANGELES
EFTCLA — Member
LOS ANGELES INSTITUTE AND SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
LAISPS — Candidate
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS
CAMFT — Member
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