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About My Clients
Lets explore the core beliefs that shape your life—and gently challenge those that no longer serve the you. I can help you learn to react differently to unwanted thoughts and feelings, so that you can keep your focus on living a life that is not constantly overwhelming or cause of conflict. Using compassion, 20 yrs experience, and a sharp wit, I love to support people in developing new insight and practices to experience greater choice and clarity within life.
My Background and Approach
A trusting and collaborative relationship is essential to great therapy. My approach is nonjudgmental, direct, and LGBTQA+ affirming. With an LCSW and PhD in East West psychology, my practice is grounded in the psychodynamic tradition using a somatic, trauma-informed lens. I then blend in other approaches including: compassionate inquiry, EMDR, ACT, Jungian/transpersonal approaches, and relational/feminist theory. I have successfully supported people in addressing issues related to relationship conflict, academic burnout, anxiety, loneliness, OCD, ADHD, divorce, and gender transition. Having worked at a gender-affirmative clinic in San Francisco for 6 years, I have had the privilege of supporting those who are contemplating transition to those who want to explore other issues but need a gender-affirmative therapist. My doctoral research was on microdosing psilocybin, which affords me the capacity to understand a variety of emotional states from different perspectives.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
In undergrad, I jammed out on studying the sociocultural construction of the body and medical sociology. This inquiry continues to inform a desire to learn how each individual I work with has been shaped by their existence (and resistance) within the institutions of society. I recognize that organized psychology has a history of exclusivity, privilege and discrimination. I have worked with a lot of folks who have past experiences of overt and unconscious discrimination within Western medicine. In the course of my doctoral program, I explored the limitations of Western psychology and studied other non-dominant approaches including ecopsychology, neo-jungian approaches, psychedelic therapy, and Eastern influences.