“Crucial to finding the way is this:
there is no beginning or end.
You must make your own map.”
JOY HARJO
I am a licensed marriage and family therapist and based in the Bay Area. I support my clients in releasing negative beliefs, processing difficult emotions, healing past wounds and cultivating a deeper sense of meaning in their lives. While a lot of the work I do requires delving into the murky stuff, I like to make room for laughter, connection, and joy.
Before opening my private practice, I spent several years working in community mental health settings, primarily with marginalized youth and families. That work deeply shaped how I view my work—it challenged me to think beyond traditional psychotherapy and explore more holistic, culturally grounded approaches to wellness.
Though trained in Western psychotherapy, I move away from the medical model of pathology, which often reflects patriarchal and supremacist values. Instead, I view emotional pain as a natural response to lived experiences and systems of oppression, not as something “wrong” with you. I’m committed to creating a space where your full experience is honored—including the parts that may not have felt welcomed in other spaces.
My work is rooted in a belief in your inherent capacity for healing. I support clients in cultivating self-trust, compassion, and deeper connection to self and others.
While I identify as a therapist, I’m also a fellow traveler on the path of growth and liberation. I show up as a whole person in this work, and I invite you to do the same.
Like you, I am a nuanced human in bloom.
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Thank you, to my clients - past, present, and future - for allowing me to witness your lives and for trusting me to walk with you.