Create the inner calm that matches the life you’ve built.
For women who learned to survive through over-functioning, perfectionism, and putting themselves last. Together, we move beyond insight alone toward deeper self-trust, emotional presence, and nervous system healing.
WHO I WORK WITH
I work with women who are finally ready to show up for themselves the way they’ve spent a lifetime showing up for everyone else.
Many of my clients faced extraordinary challenges early in life and still found ways to succeed. They became the first:
the first in the family to graduate college,
the first to build a successful business,
the first to create stability where there once was very little,
From the outside, they often look accomplished, capable, and deeply resilient.
But it has come at a cost.
Somewhere along the way, they learned to place themselves last in order to become “first.” They became experts at achievement while feeling increasingly disconnected from themselves — from rest, softness, desire, grief, and even their own bodies.
Many arrive in therapy feeling vaguely imperfect as women, despite doing everything “right.” Because perfection was never actually the goal. Safety was.
WHAT TO EXPECT
You’ll never have to explain the unspoken rules you grew up with—or the pressure of becoming “the first.” As a first myself, I know what it feels like to not quite fit anywhere anymore: not fully at home in the world you came from, yet still carrying the loneliness and pressure of entering spaces your family never had access to.
I know the strange mix of accomplishment and disconnection. The moments of exquisite (im)perfection alongside profound loneliness.
Our work is warm, collaborative, and depth-oriented. Together, we help your nervous system learn what it feels like to move through life with greater calm, self-trust, and emotional steadiness—not just accomplishment.
MY GUIDING PRINCIPLES
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Before any technique, there is the relationship.
Whether we’re using Brainspotting, somatic work, mindfulness, cognitive approaches, or nervous system-based interventions, the therapeutic relationship remains central. Research consistently shows that healing happens most deeply in the presence of safety, trust, attunement, and collaboration.
You never have to leave your humanity, culture, identity, or lived experience at the door to do meaningful therapeutic work.
Therapy should feel like a place where you can become more fully yourself — not less.
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Your mind and body are not separate systems.
Stress, grief, perfectionism, burnout, trauma, chronic vigilance, and relational pain all live somewhere in the nervous system. Therapy isn’t just about understanding your patterns intellectually — it’s also about noticing what your body has learned to carry.
As a brain- and body-informed practitioner, I pay attention to both the emotional and physiological impact of your experiences, including the ways incongruence, chronic pressure, and social context can shape the nervous system over time.
Insight matters. But sustainable change often requires the body to feel safe enough to shift too.
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You do not exist outside of context.
Relationships, work, caregiving, race, gender, family expectations, achievement pressure, identity, and systems all affect emotional wellbeing. I believe therapy should make space for these realities thoughtfully and responsibly — not ignore them.
When relevant and clinically useful, we’ll name the larger social and cultural forces shaping your experience while still staying connected to your individual goals, agency, and growth.
You deserve therapy that sees the full picture of your life.
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Therapy should feel meaningful, collaborative, and grounded in movement.
We’ll identify goals together and revisit them often so you always have a sense of what we’re working toward. Sometimes progress looks dramatic and visible. Sometimes it’s quieter: more self-trust, less reactivity, better boundaries, deeper rest, more emotional flexibility.
The goal is not perfection.
The goal is a life that feels more connected, sustainable, and aligned with who you actually are.
AT THE END OF THE DAY
My goal is simple: to help thoughtful, high-achieving, (im)Perfect women experience the same steadiness inside themselves that they’ve worked so hard to create in the outside world.
Life will always bring challenges. Therapy isn’t about eliminating difficulty altogether. Instead, it’s about helping your nervous system find its footing so you can move through those moments with more freedom, joy and self-trust–what some might call a strong psychology.
As that inner steadiness grows, many people begin to notice subtle but meaningful shifts. Decisions feel clearer. Relationships feel less effortful. The pressure to hold everything together begins to soften.
You don’t have to become a different person. Often the work is simply about allowing the parts of you that are already wise, capable, and grounded to come forward more fully.
TRAINING & EDUCATION
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Before private practice, I trained in:
Behavioral medicine, supporting clients in acute emotional and medical crises
Integrative care, working alongside physicians in fast-paced medical environments
Gender-affirming care, providing psychological support in a medical transitions clinic
University and college counseling centers, supporting students facing complex emotional and academic pressures
A large HMO medical center, strengthening assessment, grounding, and crisis-stabilization skills
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Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.), The Wright Institute
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, California #PSY35812
Specializations in anxiety, burnout, and mind-body therapy
Former clinician within a large HMO system
Background in mindfulness, grounding, and somatic practices
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Member, American Psychological Association (APA)
Member, Gaylesta: The Psychotherapist Association for Gender and Sexual Diversity
You’ve spent enough of your life holding everything together. Therapy can become the place where you finally exhale.
WHAT MY COLLEAGUES SAY