Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
I work with individuals, parents, couples, and co-parents navigating life’s transitions and periods of upheaval. Many of my clients are moving through perinatal and reproductive experiences, anxiety, burnout, relational harm or change, divorce, parenting and coparenting, menopause, identity shifts, and other rites of passage. I support those overwhelmed with family court involvement, who are seeking care that is compassionate and attuned to their nervous system and lived experience.
My Background and Approach
I work at the intersection of emotional healing, family systems, and real-world complexity. I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a former practicing attorney in California (inactive). Through Axis Center for Mental Health, an Oakland nonprofit, I provide holistic, neurodiversity-affirming psychotherapy via telehealth throughout California. My approach is rooted in somatic and depth-oriented relational therapy, integrated with evidence-based practices including psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapy. As a Certified Perinatal Mental Health specialist and former doula and breastfeeding educator, I bring a body-aware, compassionate lens to fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and caregiving. Informed by my legal background and extensive training for court-involved therapy, I also offer specialized individual and co-parenting counseling for those still healing from betrayal trauma and high conflict relationships.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe healing occurs when individuals are understood within the full context of their embodied experience, relational history, and the broader social and institutional systems they navigate. Psychological distress does not arise in a vacuum; it is shaped by conditioning, power dynamics, attachment patterns, and systemic influences. An essential component of my work involves psychoeducation and critical examination of institutional processes, including the impact of institutional betrayal on trust, safety, and identity. Outside the therapy room, I’m a single mother to two imaginative tweens, nourished by time on trails, ancient myths and imaginative story, and relationships rooted in curiosity, creativity, and respect. I’m continually reminded that context is a force, development unfolds in relationship, attunement matters, and care must remain flexible, curious, and grounded in compassion and perspective. Every day is a challenge to show up as a better version of ourselves.