Therapy should feel dynamic, engaging, and meaningful — but it won’t always feel easy.

Maybe you’ve been in therapy before, or just feel stuck with more questions than answers. Fortunately, this is an ideal place to begin. I offer sessions with individual adults and with adults together with their babies.

My approach draws upon diverse traditions including Jungian and relational psychoanalysis — this means that our genuine connection is vital to the work and we’ll get curious together about unconscious experience. We’ll explore perspectives from art, literature and mythology to contextualize your process as it unfolds.

Areas of focus include early childhood trauma; grief, death and dying; perinatal mental health, and crises of creativity and spirit. I’m compassionate, collaborative and committed to exploring how social, racial, ecological and economic systems impact your emotional wellbeing.

For 20 years, I’ve supported children and families and have worked as a therapist since 2012. Decades of experience has given me respect for many types of relationships and families, and for the undeniable ways in which our past informs our present.

My education and training include a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and positions in several community nonprofits, including a traineeship at the Community Counseling and Education Center, and internships with Secure Beginnings (formerly the Nan Tolbert Nurturing Center), Ventura Community Counseling, and Camarillo Hospice (now Livingston Memorial).

I’ve also taught Child Psychotherapy to graduate students, worked as an early childhood educator and facilitated parent-infant groups.

California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #107084