Services
About My Clients
My clients are diverse in age, gender expression, ability, and ethnic and cultural orientation. I work with young adults facing identity, relationship, and career transitions, youth and adults exploring gender orientation and expression, intergenerational trauma, past and/or current trauma, burnout, anxiety and depression. My clients are often taking the first or next step towards self-actualization and transformation.
My Background and Approach
For two decades, I have worked on the frontlines with communities, individuals, and agencies in New York City and currently, in the Bay Area where I provide both individual and group therapy. My background is eclectic, including work in community organizing and racial justice, restorative justice, attachment-oriented, trauma-responsive care, youth development, crisis intervention and harm reduction, grief and loss, addiction counseling, burnout, adult and adolescent inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care, short and long-term care for aging and older adults, and creative arts therapies. I can offer drama and creative arts therapy, mindfulness and meditation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Development Behavioral Therapy (DBT), attachment-oriented, trauma-responsive, and somatic practices. I customize my sessions to meet your unique needs. I am culturally aware and committed to establishing a therapeutic relationship with my clients based on trust and understanding.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Your story matters. I believe through counseling, you give yourself the gift of understanding and transformation. I will guide you in connecting to your voice, truth, and innate wisdom, and reclaiming the authentic parts of your being. I will help you transform and shift your relationship to your struggles, connect to your inner self, tap into your JOY, and unlock a new horizon. Through my own trauma therapy, I have developed self-compassionate inner voice that supports me in embodying presence and aliveness. I have dedicated my life's work to understanding my own identity from a social justice lens, and have found healing the wounds of history also includes addressing the systems and structures that impact humanity. When we see ourselves as humans surviving in a modern world that is complex and harmful, we can develop our self-compassion and healing voice to hold us through the challenges. My approach is direct, warm, and compassionate.