About Therapy

My hope is to give you an experience of yourself in our sessions that is different from your experience the rest of the time. Over time, you will internalize the experience of peace, safety, courage, and confidence so that you can carry it into your life outside of session.

My desire for every person who comes into my office is to help you come to a point where guilt, shame, and anxiety are no longer controlling factors in your life and are replaced by courage, self-love, and trust. When you are rooted firmly in your love and compassion for yourself, you are capable of facing and achieving more than you can imagine.

Helping others create change in their lives is something I am deeply passionate about. For the past decade, I have been invested in helping others to heal, grow and live in their full potential, and have worked with a variety of populations in an array of settings.

I recognize that asking for help is often no simple task. I believe therapy is an invitation to delve deeper into your truth so that you can live an authentic, full life. It’s a vulnerable process and a unique experience for every being, though can be transformational.

I see counseling as a collaborative relationship that moves individuals along the path to empowerment and self-awareness. I am deeply committed to helping clients focus on their goals and build on existing strengths to cope with life’s challenges in a safe, open, and non-judgmental environment.

I consider myself to be an eclectic and integrative therapist and tailor my style to the needs of each client, focusing on meeting each individual on where they are in their journey.

I am a licensed psychoanalytic psychotherapist, mental health therapist and drug and alcohol counselor. Through over a decade of working with people who are suffering from various issues, anxiety, depression, addiction, personality disorders and psychosis.

I have developed an approach to the work that attempts to enable my patients to recognize, understand and, through the act of speech, bring to light the ways that self-limiting beliefs have shaped the way they interact in and with the world around them. This work goes on outside of the therapy session and will inform how you feel and see the changes occurring in their everyday life.

Since 2016, my clinical work has focused on a variety of presenting concerns including depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use, PTSD, childhood abuse, grief/loss and personality disorders.

I have worked with a variety of chronic pain and illness conditions including PCOS, mast cell disorders, MS, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, fibromyalgia, arthritis, immune deficiencies and many more. I believe that psychotherapy can be a way to gain a better understanding of oneself and provide an individual with insight into their own life. Having awareness surrounding one’s thoughts and feelings can lead to a more fulfilling and mindful existence. I believe that the therapeutic relationship formed with my clients can be in and of itself a healing experience and really a branching off point towards the road of self-discovery. The therapy room is truly a safe space to explore who you are and who you want to become.

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I work with individuals to help relieve symptoms of anxiety and depression, gain confidence and self-esteem, navigate life transitions, and more.

My qualifications include two master's degrees, as well as professional training in psychodynamic therapy. I use a mixture of psychodynamic, humanistic and mindfulness-based techniques, and specialize in working with creatives and POC.

Our unique human existence poses many challenges that invite opportunities for deep learning, healing, and transformation. When we open ourselves up to the lessons of our adversity rather than avoiding them, we unlock a landscape of new possibilities and new ways of being in relationships, in the world, and in our relationship with ourselves. While painful in the short-term, engaging with life’s challenges in this way can ultimately develop in us greater resiliency, deeper authenticity, and renewed vitality.

My commitment is to empower and heal you by creating a safe and non-judgmental therapeutic environment to help you uncover your deepest truths and overcome your deepest fears. I will invite you into a more mindful and peaceful way of being as we help you heal using research proven therapeutic modalities such as CBT, psychodynamic therapy, and mindfulness practices.

My passion is to help others get “unstuck” no matter where you find yourself in your search for a life that is full of meaning, happiness, and success. There is much more to you than you could ever imagine! My goal is to help you uncover your true self beneath the layers of pain and the accumulated habits. Let me encourage you to take the leap toward discovering who you are in this world uniquely and how you can make a meaningful contribution to the planet in the way that you have always hoped! If you feel like you’re hitting a dead-end in reaching your “Big Dream”, experiencing loneliness, or are feeling trapped in worry about the future, I will help you find the keys to get out of your confinement. We all have stories – who we say we are and who others have told us we are – that dictate how we live our lives, how we interact with others, and how we see ourselves. These become self-fulfilling prophecies when left unchecked. Understanding our old stories and rewriting new narratives are essential to creating a meaningful and successful life. I am excited to create a space to talk and help those that are ready to step into the mysterious past, the powerful present, and the exciting future.

As a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist and a professional beach volleyball player with the AVP Beach Volleyball Tour, I can’t help but share my passion for health and fitness with my clients. I offer in-home personal training sessions in Los Angeles including West LA, Santa Monica, Mid-City, Marina del Rey, and Southbay.

I am committed to creating an individualized in-home personal training regimen, tailored to your personal fitness needs and goals. I believe in a holistic approach to training. Through our training sessions, we will not only focus on the body we will use fitness to improve your self-esteem and quality of life. I’ll help you break through your barriers to fitness and get the body, strength, power, agility, and sports performance you’ve always dreamed of.

As a certified hypnotherapist, my goal is to guide you to learn how to access the most powerful part of your mind, the subconscious. Everything starts in the mind first. I will teach you how to gain better control over it. I offer hope, health, excitement, and freedom. My focus is to find out where you are at now, and where you want to be. I am passionate about teaching you how to release old patterns that are no longer serving you. We can all be successful at reaching goals. What may be getting in the way is the pattern of how you have learned to do things.

I will teach you techniques and anchors so you can be guided to find your own answers within. I love teaching people something about themselves that they didn’t already know. Your problems may seem strange to you, not me. The key when working with a hypnotherapist for change is belief. When you learn to change your thoughts it helps to change your beliefs, and when you change your beliefs it is reflected in your behaviors.