You might come to therapy because your child is struggling, your family feels disconnected, you’re overwhelmed by anxiety, you’re navigating a major life transition, or you’re living with chronic pain.
Whatever brings you in, I want to understand the bigger picture.
My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and tailored to the person or family sitting in front of me. Therapy isn’t about fitting you into a specific box. It’s about understanding what you’re experiencing and finding an approach that makes sense for you.
Children and teens don’t always have the words to explain what they’re experiencing. Anxiety, sadness, frustration, withdrawal, behavior changes, school difficulties, or struggles with friendships can all be ways of communicating that something needs attention.
I work with children, teens, parents, and families around:
My background in Child and Adolescent Development, combined with my training as a Marriage & Family Therapist, allows me to look at the child while also considering the family, school, relationships, and environment around them.
Sometimes supporting a child means supporting the whole family too. When one person changes, the family often has to adjust—and therapy can help everyone learn new ways of communicating, connecting, and supporting one another.
When appropriate and with the necessary permissions, I can also collaborate with parents, schools, educators, and other professionals involved in a child’s care.
As my practice has grown, so has my work with women and adults navigating the many different things life can bring.
I support clients experiencing:
One area of particular interest in my work is supporting women living with endometriosis and chronic pain.
Living with ongoing pain can affect much more than your physical body. It can impact relationships, work, confidence, plans for the future, and your sense of identity.
Therapy can provide a place to process those experiences, develop healthy coping strategies, strengthen self-compassion, and reconnect with yourself beyond your diagnosis or pain.
I am EMDR-trained and incorporate trauma-informed approaches when appropriate.
EMDR can be one approach for helping process experiences that continue to affect emotional responses, relationships, beliefs about yourself, or your sense of safety.
Therapy is always paced around the individual and what feels manageable.
Sometimes it helps to get out of the office.
For clients who are a good fit, I offer Walk & Talk Therapy at TreePeople’s Coldwater Canyon Park, located between Beverly Hills and Studio City.
Walking side by side and being outdoors can create a different kind of therapeutic experience. For some people, movement and nature can make it easier to slow down, think, breathe, and connect with what they’re experiencing.
Walk & Talk Therapy is available by appointment and when clinically appropriate. Before beginning, we’ll discuss privacy, weather, accessibility, and the practical considerations of meeting in a public outdoor setting.
I work with women navigating:
Endometriosis and chronic pain can affect much more than the physical symptoms.
There can be grief, frustration, uncertainty, changes in relationships, disruptions to plans, concerns about identity and body image, and the exhaustion of having to continually explain or manage something that others may not see.
Therapy can be a place to process those experiences and reconnect with yourself beyond your diagnosis or pain.
School is a huge part of a child’s world.
It is where children learn, develop friendships, experience challenges, build confidence, and spend a significant part of their lives.
Because of my background and experience working with children and families, I have developed strong connections with schools and a deep appreciation for collaboration between therapists, parents, educators, and other professionals.
When appropriate and with the necessary permissions, I can collaborate with the people involved in a child’s care.
The goal isn’t to have everyone doing therapy.
It’s to help create consistency, communication, and understanding between the different parts of a child’s world.
I believe mental health doesn’t happen separately from the body.
My training in Nutritional Psychology has expanded my understanding of the gut-brain connection, emotional eating, body image, habits, and the ways physical and emotional experiences interact.
I use this perspective as one part of understanding the whole person. This does not involve prescribing diets or providing nutritional treatment.
There isn’t one right way to do therapy.
Depending on your needs, our work may draw from:
Most importantly, therapy should make sense for you.
We’ll work together to understand what’s happening, identify what you want to change, and create a path forward that feels realistic and meaningful.
We can start there.
