“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 the parameters of therapy—it challenged me to think beyond traditional psychotherapy and explore more holistic, culturally grounded approaches to wellness.
Though trained in Western psychotherapy, I stray 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 not as something “wrong” with you.
My work is firmly rooted in a belief in your inherent capacity for healing and a deep recognition that while you may show up in therapy feeling broken, you are already whole.
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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 alongside you.