Me and My Approach

Image is of a late thirties white woman with brown hair, brown eyes, brown eye glasses, in a yellow brown sweater and gold hoop earrings.

I believe that my clients are the experts on their experiences and that I am a companion walking alongside them on their path. I have tools and offerings to help deepen my clients self understanding and life skills to empower clients to make changes in their lives.

I am passionate about clients connecting to their authentic selves and finding places of belonging, and my hope is (with time and trust) our therapy room can be one of those places.

Before I became a therapist, I had a private practice for many years as a “spiritual director”: helping clients connect to what makes life meaningful and/or their higher power. I feel very comfortable welcoming your particular spirituality or faith in session as you want.

My social locations: I’m a white, straight, cisgender woman who is childfree, monogamous and married, neurotypical, citizen, spiritual, middle class, able bodied, and elder Millennial.

I work with clients of all identities and backgrounds, and am committed to my own unlearning of the many oppressive systems that influence me.

I’m a Californian who has lived in San Francisco for over 15 years. I enjoy reading fiction, cuddling my dog, and walking all over this city.

I received my MA in Counseling Psychology from the Wright Institute and am currently in practice at the Center for Mindful Psychotherapy (CMP).

Working with me looks like having someone who

  • is a deeply engaged listener who is really curious about your particular experience

  • will gently slow you down and have you tune into what’s happening “here and now”

  • may invite you to zoom out on a situation to understand the many systems impacting you

  • geeks out over teaching you some helpful tools and frameworks for understanding and self-regulating

  • asks for your consent every step along the way

  • invites you to reflect on our similarities and differences and the ways our social locations may impact the therapeutic process

  • actively invites feedback (and totally gets it can be intimidating to do so)

  • teaches you mindfulness, while also acknowledges mindfulness does not solve systemic oppression

  • highlights your strengths and abilities and cheerleads your progress

  • tells you there is no such thing as TMI with her and welcomes anything you want to bring to therapy (sex, spirituality, money, etc.)

  • holds the tender, complex, serious, and playful

Therapy Speak (in case you’re looking for a specific modality/lens)

  • Relational/depth/psychodynamic

  • Hakomi Mindful Somatic therapy

  • Trauma-informed

  • Social justice/feminist

  • Grief-positive

  • Integrative

  • Experiential

  • Humanistic/existential

  • Emotionally focused therapy

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