I approach therapy as a relational and collaborative process. Rather than offering ready-made answers, I see therapy as a space where people can slow down, think, feel, and make meaning together, with care and intention. The work is shaped by presence and honest conversation, and by a shared curiosity about what is unfolding in the moment.

My perspective is grounded in the understanding that we are shaped through relationships, with family, culture, history, and the social systems we live within. Many of the difficulties people bring to therapy make sense when viewed in this wider context. Healing, too, often happens in relationship, through attention, openness, and the willingness to stay with what is difficult rather than rushing toward solutions.

My clinical formation has been shaped both by formal education and by years of community-based work. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Psychological Science with a minor in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, and a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from San Diego State University. Alongside my academic training, I have worked in nonprofit and community settings with individuals, families, and youth, including providing therapy services and advocacy to immigrants and refugees, supporting those impacted by domestic violence, facilitating educational groups, and mentoring youth. These experiences continue to inform how I listen, how I hold complexity, and how I remain attentive to issues of power, safety, and context in the therapeutic relationship.

My work draws from relational and attachment-based perspectives, including Emotionally Focused Therapy, which I am continuing to deepen through ongoing training and certification. I am also informed by existential, narrative, experiential, and somatic approaches, as well as trauma-oriented and neurodivergent-affirming frameworks. While these perspectives guide my thinking, therapy looks different for each person. I try to remain responsive to individual needs, pacing, and ways of making meaning.

Above all, I aim to offer a space that feels thoughtful, grounded, and human. A space where relief and reflection can exist side by side, and where we can attend both to what brings you here now and to the larger stories that shape who you are and how you live.