Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
- Adolescent/Teen
- Group
About My Clients
I provide psychotherapy to adults, teens, couples and families.
My Background and Approach
I earned my Master’s degree in 2009 at Pacific Oaks College with a heavy emphasis on diversity and anti-bias sensitivity. I have been involved in the Los Angeles County mental health field since 1999, in acute psychiatric environments since 2004, first at Las Encinas psychiatric hospital in Pasadena and later at Adventist Health Glendale's Behavioraal health department. This work has included treating patients with a broad spectrum of mental illnesses, from mood disorders to psychosis, active suicidality to chemical dependency and other addictive behaviors. I spent the 5 years previous to my hospital work in community mental health, serving homeless teens in Hollywood, incarcerated adolescents at Central Juvenile Hall & underserved communities thru middle school & in-home therapy in Central & East L.A., where I counseled teens in trouble, young adults, and blended family couples.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
My training at the Georgiana Rodiger Center was primarily in the tradition of Psychodynamic & Object-Relations theory and Family Systems theory, but my approach is “eclectic” in the sense that I work with each client with their type of issue in the way that will best fit their needs, not mine. Among other modalities, I use dream journaling as a therapeutic tool to understand the interplay between the psychological and spiritual lives of my clients. My goal for my clients is that they come to their own discoveries and answers using our time together for my assitance in helping walk them through that process. I beleive the best therapy is that which feels like a "long lucid listening" where I can help them to be able to "hear themselves think out loud".