There is a moment—one that often comes quietly—when you step outside of yourself just enough to see things differently. A shift in awareness, a new angle, a widening of perspective. It’s the moment you recognize that your thoughts, emotions, and reactions are not the entirety of who you are, but patterns unfolding within a much larger story.

This work is about making space for those moments.

I became a therapist because I’m drawn to what happens when we pause, when we turn toward our inner world with curiosity rather than resistance. Life has a way of sweeping us up in its momentum—its habits, its unresolved echoes, its inherited ways of being. We become fused with our own narratives, repeating the same cycles, stuck in patterns we can feel but not always see. My role is to help untangle these patterns, to create a space where you can step back, observe, and engage with your experience in a new way.

I hold a Master of Arts in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), a school known for cultivating therapists who approach healing with depth, creativity, and reverence for the mystery of the human experience. My training was oriented to being less about fixing and more about listening—closely, relationally, and with the understanding that transformation often arrives through presence, not force. I like to think in metaphors, feel at home in paradox, and honor both the science and soul of the therapeutic process.

I work with clients in person in San Francisco, but serve the greater Bay Area and California online.

How We Work Together

I work with individuals, couples, people of all identities, minorities, LGBTQ+, and those exploring identity, meaning, and connection.

My approach is insight-driven, exploratory yet directive—meaning I don't just sit back and nod, but engage with you actively, helping to illuminate connections that might otherwise remain unseen. I work from a psychodynamic and relational perspective primarily, along with somatic techniques, Gestalt interjections, existential exploration, transpersonal awareness and intuitive flow-based processing.

We will explore the narratives you’ve carried—those written by your upbringing, relationships, and culture—and examine which parts still serve you and which feel constraining and let yourself grieve those parts. We will practice expanding awareness, zooming out from a moment of distress to see it in its larger context, noticing the forces at play rather than being consumed by them. We will incorporate somatic work, noticing how your body speaks what words sometimes cannot, or Gestalt techniques to give voice to the unspoken parts of yourself. We’ll explore attention itself—how to sharpen it, how to trust it, how to use it to move with more clarity and intention through your life.

This work is not about “fixing” you—because you are not broken. It’s about learning to listen more closely to yourself, to engage more fully with the experiences that shape you, and to move forward in a way that feels more aligned, connected, and real.

Therapy is more than symptom relief—it is an unfolding, a remembering, a reconnection with the parts of yourself that have been shaped by experience, relationships, and the unseen forces of your life.

In our work together, we don’t just treat distress—we explore its origins. We listen to the stories beneath anxiety, the wisdom within stuckness, and the meaning in emotions that have long felt overwhelming. Rather than seeing symptoms as something to eliminate, we consider them as messengers, pointing toward what is calling for deeper attention.

This process is relational, intuitive, and rooted in exploration. We work with what arises—patterns, unconscious narratives, unspoken wounds—while holding space for something new to emerge. This might involve examining past relationships, increasing emotional awareness, strengthening intuition, or expanding your capacity for self-trust.

Through this process, my role is not to fix or prescribe, but to walk alongside you in the work of making meaning, finding clarity, and moving toward a more connected and whole way of being.