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About My Clients
I work with adults navigating anxiety, trauma, relationship challenges, identity exploration, and life transitions. Many clients are LGBTQ+, in consensual non-monogamous or other alternative relationship structures, or have felt marginalized in traditional systems. Clients often seek support with perfectionism, people-pleasing, shame, attachment wounds, boundaries, and self-trust.
My Background and Approach
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Santa Barbara and experience in practice with clients since 2015. My approach is warm and collaborative, integrating client-centered, existential, EMDR, CBT, ACT, and psychodynamic perspectives. I focus on helping clients understand how their lived experiences, relationships, and identities shape emotional patterns, coping strategies, and self-perception. In therapy, we work to reduce the impact of shame, perfectionism, and rigid thinking while increasing self-awareness, emotional flexibility, and self-trust. I aim to create a grounded, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore change at a pace that feels safe and sustainable.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe healing happens in the context of safety, authenticity, and respectful relationship. I approach therapy from a non-pathologizing lens that centers each person’s lived experience rather than viewing them through a lens of deficit. I value identity-affirming care and recognize the impact of systemic oppression, marginalization, and cultural context on mental health. I also believe people are the experts of their own lives, and my role is to support clarity, insight, and choice rather than impose direction. I hold that change is often less about becoming someone different and more about loosening the internalized beliefs and protective patterns that no longer serve us. My work is grounded in curiosity, collaboration, and respect for each client’s autonomy and pace.