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About My Clients
Maybe you feel things more intensely than the people around you. One comment lands wrong and your whole day goes sideways. Or maybe you’ve already done DBT, learned the skills, and are wondering what’s next. I work with adults across the lifespan navigating emotional sensitivity, borderline personality patterns, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, identity, and life transitions. I especially welcome neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC clients.
My Background and Approach
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 15 years of experience. My career began with autistic children in San Francisco, followed by research at Yale’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit and family therapy with adolescents at the Yale Child Study Center. I spent several years at The DBT Clinic in Portland and completed Comprehensive DBT Foundational Training through Behavioral Tech. My approach is client-centered, strengths-based, and collaborative. We’ll build practical skills while looking at how family, culture, and relationships shape what you’re carrying. You don’t need to make your feelings smaller for my sake. We can make room for them together. Clients describe me as warm, direct, and honest, and I welcome humor when it serves our work. My practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming, sex-positive, body-positive, and inclusive of diverse relationship structures. Outside therapy, I love fiction, slapstick comedy, and spontaneous dance parties.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe access to mental health care is a fundamental right, and I’m committed to reducing the stigma around asking for help. At the heart of my work is a belief that, while our identities and experiences are unique, we all share a desire for freedom and connection: freedom to be ourselves, to feel our emotions without fear, and to connect meaningfully with others. My practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming, sex-positive, body-positive, and inclusive of diverse identities and relationship structures. I recognize the impact of racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of systemic oppression on mental health, and I’m committed to ongoing learning and reflection. As a first-generation Filipino American raised in a large extended family, I know firsthand how culture and family shape who we are. Those threads, and the intergenerational patterns that come with them, are always welcome in our work together.