Online Therapy for Adults and Couples in California

Being human can be beautiful, complicated, joyful, mundane, and painful, often all at once. There is so much more to us than our symptoms, our wounds, or the ways we have learned to survive. I believe that even when we feel lost or disconnected from ourselves, something within us still longs for meaning, connection, growth, and aliveness.

 

I have always been drawn to the questions that do not have easy answers: What happens when the life we have built no longer feels like the life we want to be living? What do we hold onto because it is right for us, and what do we hold onto because we are afraid to let go? How do we remain open to love, loss, uncertainty, and change without losing ourselves in the process? And what becomes possible when we begin listening more closely to the life within us that is asking to be lived?

 

My path to becoming a therapist has taken me through very different worlds. I hold a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles and a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy from Columbia University. Before becoming a therapist, I worked as an analyst with the Environmental Protection Agency, spent more than a decade supporting technology executives and boards in the Bay Area, taught English to Tibetan monks in India, and volunteered in hospice care with the Zen Hospice Project and Threshold Choir.

 

Travel has also been an important part of my life, allowing me to encounter different cultures, spiritual traditions, landscapes, and ways of understanding what gives life meaning. Moving between boardrooms, monasteries, hospice bedsides, and communities around the world has shaped the way I see people. While our lives may look very different, we are remarkably alike in our longing to be known, to belong, to make sense of what we have lived through, and to live in a way that feels true.

 

Those experiences have taught me to look beyond the problem and toward the whole person. I want to understand not only what hurts, but what has shaped you, what has sustained you, what matters to you, and what in you may be asking for something different now.

 

My approach is warm, relational, active, depth-oriented, and trauma-informed. I draw from attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy, psychodynamic therapy, parts work, somatic awareness, mindfulness, ACT, and strengths-based approaches. My work is also shaped by questions of meaning, freedom, responsibility, loss, and what we choose to do with the life we have.

 

Therapy, to me, is about more than feeling less anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck. It is about becoming more fully yourself, more able to trust what you know, honor what you need, be honest about what you want, and live with greater freedom, connection, meaning, and aliveness.