I welcome children, teens, parents, families, couples, and individual adults to my practice. It takes strength and courage to make the decision to seek therapy for yourself or your child. I provide a safe space and relationship where you, your child, and/or family can work through patterns, processes, thoughts, feelings, or beliefs that may cause individual or relational problems or stress.

I have been trained to listen and think psychodynamically, and believe that both my love of people of all ages and my passion for the arts particularly help me get to know you, think creatively with you, and establish a deep connection. I have specialized training in complex trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, relationship, and gender issues.

As an active member of Mind the Gap (MTG), a consortium of gender affirming care therapists in community partnership with  UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center, I am committed to providing gender affirmative services to transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive children, youth, and their families. I see patients in my office at Still Waters Psychotherapy in Berkeley.

I am grateful to my patients, colleagues, supervisors, and staff at Family Paths where I trained 2019-2020, and at The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, CA, where I completed a psychoanalytic psychotherapy training program in 2022. 

Prior to earning an M.A. in Counseling Psychology at The Wright Institute, I studied at Northwestern University (B.A. in English Literature), and Columbia University in the City of New York (M.F.A. in Writing Poetry), and had careers in communication, health, and education.

To learn more, I invite you to explore this website or visit my page on Psychology Today .