I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#140256), providing psychotherapy for individuals located in California, both in-person and via telehealth. I specialize in self-esteem and identity, and am ongoingly moved by how a receptivity-to-self can support the depth and magic of one’s interpersonal and transpersonal experience. Many of my clients are highly sensitive, creative individuals working to more-consciously engage their inner world. Sometimes this arrives as a depression, a relational rupture, a conflict of identity.

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In our world, these experiences are vulnerable to being pathologized, two-dimensionalized and flattened into a diagnostic stasis. The world of archetypal psychology, however, might welcome these “arrivals” to more-fully observe their potency and poetry— how does their presence engage or disengage the nervous system? In what ways might they be informing your personal myth? How might this personal myth protect you? Where does this personal myth fit itself into the larger tapestry of an ancestral wisdom? How else might it approach you? Aurally, visually, in dreams or in waking imagination?

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The instinctive nature in which one might be able to answer points us toward soul. The right psychotherapeutic relationship can allow for a ritualizing of this psychic data, to be engaged with curiosity and reverence. Where meaning can be made, soul can be tended to.

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Before private practice, my clinical work included community mental health, providing counsel to youth and adult clientele having a wide range of developmental and personality disorders, and facilitating process groups to support individuals through life transitions. I have lived experience advocating on behalf of sex workers and individuals with disabilities. My approach is trauma-informed, non-pathologizing, and depth-oriented— honoring imagination and instinct to practice a more-embodied experience of soul and psyche.