As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#159918), I believe that we aren’t meant to ask the difficult questions alone. It is a profound honor to join my patients in the pursuit of self-exploration and self-acceptance. 

My perspective as a psychotherapist has been shaped by both formal study and my lived experience of “becoming.”

In my early career, my studies in philosophy and theology led me to roles in religious communities, working with young people brave enough to ask the important questions: why is the world the way it is? who am I, and how do I fit into it? The communities I served often included queer and trans youth seeking justice, understanding, and care where the world had seemed to miss or misrepresent them. 

I also navigated a personal gender transition, which left me with a deep appreciation for the tensions of interlocking identities and the challenges of living authentically.

I practice depth psychology because I believe it honors each person’s complexity: what we have gone through, what is alive for us now, and the fantasies we hold about what comes next. I join my patients as a fellow explorer, making space for the varied and often conflicting parts that emerge as we attend to whatever unfolds.

My clinical presence is informed by psychoanalytic psychotherapy training at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, as well as training in trauma therapy and gender affirming-care. I regularly seek consultation in the provision of my work, integrating different approaches to serve each of my patients and the psychotherapies we are creating together.