Team

Welcome! I am a licensed psychologist with over a decade of private practice experience. My passion lies in working with individuals and couples to help them find their unique and authentic path in life that creates balance, understanding, and intentional living. In therapy with me, you will experience the warmth and understanding that is critical to successful growth. I will offer you a safe and non-judgmental environment that will allow you to explore your emotions and patterns of behavior as well as your personal history.

Life can become complicated with conflicting messages you receive throughout life from your environment. This can cause confusion about who you truly feel you are or how you want to live. Therapy provides you the time and space to sift through these messages to gain greater awareness about your authentic self and explore how to live in accordance with your values. You will also gain understanding about your emotions, behaviors, and patterns of relationships that cause distress. Together, you and I will find new ways for you to cope with your challenges while also creating the life story that you want to tell.

I have passion for working with individuals of all ages, sexuality, and gender struggling to find their voice and identity in the world and in relationships. I will help you find your unique voice and explore your identity so that you can feel more fulfilled with how you navigate your life and relationships. Some of my specialties include eating disorders, anxiety, life transitions such as launching into adulthood or becoming a parent, relationship concerns, unique challenges of single-parenting, and dealing with difficult familial relationships. My approach is integrative, utilizing psychodynamic and family systems theory while using behavioral techniques to help with more immediate needs.

Hello! Let me congratulate you on taking the first steps towards yourself discovery and personal healing. I understand how challenging it can be to find a therapist who will honor, respect, and value the often private and personal information you share in session. I believe in providing clients the space to feel safe enough to unpack suppressed emotions and thoughts while gently offering insights to how some of their patterns might be counterintuitive to the goals they are trying to achieve. The fundamentals of my practice include being genuine, compassionate, empowerment of others, unbiased, and being scientifically sound.

I am a postdoctoral level therapist with over eight years of experience working with adolescences and adults of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds. I have worked in both state and private hospitals where I have treated a wide range of mental illnesses, neurocognitive disorders, and co-occurring disorders. I additionally worked at a variety of outpatient mental health clinics treating clients with sexual addictions, gender dysphoria, substance use, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and suicidal ideations.

As a therapist I find it useful to combined several different schools of theories such as; Schema, Solution-Focused, Cognitive-Behavioral, Humanistic, Emotional Processing, and Neuroscience. Through my eclectic approach I customize my treatment to best fit the client’s needs. I am well-versed in working with clients who are familiar with the therapeutic process. However, I specially enjoy supporting clients who are new to therapy and how it’s a collaborative partnership.

I have extensive training in trauma therapy, EMDR treatment, sport psychology, neuropsychology, forensic mental health, and sexual health. Some of my specialties include sexual and childhood trauma, domestic violence, Schizoaffective and Bipolar disorders, traumatic brain injuries (TBI), Anxiety, self-confidence improvement, emotion management, and self-injurious behaviors.

I would be honored to be your guide as we unfold the layers of your inner consciousness, while constructing significant growth and lasting gratification.

I am lucky to have counseled thousands of clients in my 20 years as a dietitian. Over the years my nutrition philosophy has come into sharp focus: I believe that we all have innate wisdom about what our bodies need. My goal as your dietitian is to empower you to listen to and respond to your own inner wisdom about your body and how to nourish it.

Many things, such as stress, trauma, depression, anxiety, medications, medical conditions, and eating disorders can blur feedback from our bodies. As an eating disorder specialist, I help my clients establish healthful eating patterns, unlearn nutrition misinformation, address food fears and anxieties, and eventually eat with more flexibility and pleasure. I recognize the importance of multidisciplinary care for eating disorders and am happy to collaborate with the other members of your support team. 

I trained and worked at UCSF Medical Center and have been the lead dietitian at UC Berkeley’s University Health Services for the past ten years. In addition to my work in eating disorders, I have experience with a wide variety of other nutrition-related concerns, including PCOS, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, disease prevention, pregnancy and postpartum, and nutrition for sports and fitness. I love helping clients explore the gut-brain connection and discover how being nourished improves mood, energy, and focus. 

With all my clients, I take a weight-neutral, non-diet approach. I welcome clients of all shapes and sizes and treat everyone with the dignity and respect they deserve. I look forward to helping you discover (or rediscover) a positive and peaceful relationship with food.