psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Approach

I practice a form of psychoanalytic and neurodiversity-affirming therapy rooted in the body, meaning I am most interested in helping you experience life, and death for that matter, with more clarity and embodiment. I listen for and respond to how and what you express – and equally what you don’t express – with presence and respect.

Sometimes this shows itself through the way it feels when we’re together in a room or on a screen, when we talk or think about whatever comes to your mind, your dreams, your anguish. My hope is that by being together, once or more times a week, we find ways for you to feel more, generate more possibilities and vitality, and enjoy yourself and life with more freedom.

AREAS OF focus

developmental trauma, depression, anxiety, neurodiversity and women’s endocrine health

  • MA, Clinical Psychology, Antioch University Los Angeles, 2024

  • BA, English with a speciality in Creative Writing, University of Southern California, 2012

education

  • Attachment-focused EMDR Training, Parnell Institute, 2026-in progress

  • Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2024-2026

  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Wright Institute Los Angeles, 2022-2024

  • 100-hour Mindfulness Teacher Certificate, David Nichtern, 2020

training

I work with adults, children and adolescents who have all taught me a great deal.

The people I work with share music, films, cultural phenomenons, stories and memories they haven’t thought about or talked about in years, if ever, with me. I think it’s just the coolest thing.

offerings

  • I offer 1:1 individual sessions and for couples of all relationship structures from a LGBTQIA+ and cultural affirming lens.

  • I support families to cultivate better connection and adaptive skills to strengthen the relationship between caregivers and their kids. I integrate play therapy as a way to connect with children to understand what they are expressing, having challenges with, and needing to be attuned to. I listen for themes to emerge in children’s play and through interacting with one another, we create meaning and language together so that they may grow more fully. I integrate parent work through reflective parenting principles to support caregivers to embody themselves more fully and connect with their children with more resilience.

  • A time marked by dynamic changes, growing pressures, relational demands and challenging growth. I work to get to know what makes you uniquely you and collaborate with you and caregivers on how to strengthen your connection with yourself and others with emotional resiliency and understanding. Similarly to my work with children, I integrate parent work through reflective parenting principles to support caregivers to embody themselves more fully and connect with their children with more resilience.

Explore

I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.

- Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates