About Me

As a child, I wished I had a framework to understand my rich inner world, which drew me towards psychology at a young age. After my own powerful healing experience from chronic illness, my interest in this work strengthened.

I received a my Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UCLA. Trained with a sociological background, I understand the therapeutic relationship in the context of the oppressive systems we occupy. This lens was emphasized by my years working in community mental health at a residential treatment center, helping facilitate reparative relationships between homeless and runaway youth and their families.

I received my master’s in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. This informs my clinical approach as holistic - attending to mind, body, and spirit in my practice. CIIS, known for the world’s first psychedelic assisted therapy program, is also where I began deepening my understanding of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. I now hold a Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy certification from Journey Clinical and use ketamine in my psychotherapy practice. After graduate school, I trained at the Southern California Counseling Center (SCCC), a low-fee community clinic in Los Angeles.

In addition to my work as a therapist, I have assisted with research on neuroplasticity and brain retraining for chronic illness at the Chronic Conditions Research Fund. The connection between neuroplasticity, psychedelics, and the healing of physical and emotional illness is what really lights me up as a clinician. In my free time, I like to express myself creatively through music, performance, and visual art, spend time in nature, and eat good food with the people I love.

We are likely to be a good fit if you

  • Are looking to feel more ease in your daily life

  • Want to develop a more compassionate relationship with your mind and body

  • Experience chronic illness and/or pain

  • Feel misunderstood and often question if you are somehow different from others

  • Are naturally a giver, care-taker, or “people pleaser” and want to learn how to balance your natural compassion with self-assertion and self-care

  • Want to develop your own voice and intuition

  • Want to regulate your nervous system and feel calm in your daily life

  • Feel you may be an “empath” or highly sensitive person

  • Identify as an artist, neurodivergent, or queer

  • Question systems of oppression including white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism and how they influence your mental and physical well-being

  • Want to find more purpose, meaning, and joy in your human experience ◡̈

How I Work

My primary hope is to bring more joy, peace, trust, and meaning into your life. As a clinician, I am here to support you through the entire gamut of your human experience - both the light and dark. I honor and welcome you however you show up each session. I hold with compassion your challenging moments and am also there to celebrate your accomplishments. I bring my natural gentleness, warmth, and humor to session.

As a clinician, I hope to empower my clients to better understand their inner worlds and regulate their nervous systems to live with ease. When we have experienced difficult childhoods, relationships, and trauma, our internal experience can seem mysterious, confusing, out of control, or even frightening. Often times this can lead to vigilance or expecting the worse. At times, this can lead to physical health issues.

My goal is to help you shine a light onto these unknown parts, offering education and vocabulary to make sense of your experience. In addition, I will teach you how to regulate your nervous system and build new neural pathways. In this way, we can reestablish what has been lost by encouraging a healthier connection to yourself, your body, and the present moment. In addition, I often employ the use of metaphor, guided visualizations, and “parts work” to help you understand your inner world. Awareness is the first step towards healing.

Clinically, I incorporate psychodynamic, relational, somatic, and transpersonal orientations, as well as parts work and psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. To me, this blend of orientations encourages holistic wellness across all systems.