My interest in and devotion to mental health began quite early and continues to this day, with beginnings as a teacher, peer counselor and suicide prevention educator. I’ve worked as a therapist intern in the schools with youth and teens, as a social worker at a community mental health center with adults with serious mental illness, and for years as a therapist and clinical supervisor with foster children, youth and families. During this period, I specialized in expressive arts therapy and offered trainings to other professionals. I have been in private practice with children, teens and adults of all ages since 2011. I am tremendously honored and grateful for the work I do and for the wide array of experiences and encounters I have had.

I am a licensed marriage and family therapist (License #46185), psychotherapist and counselor with an office located on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California, serving communities in Oakland, Berkeley and Piedmont. Currently, I provide individual depth psychotherapy to adults as well as supervision and consultation to other professionals. My graduate degree is in counseling psychology with an emphasis in the expressive arts which I received in 2002. Since then, I have completed two years of additional post graduate training in psychodynamic depth oriented psychotherapy at the Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, California and am an Analyst Candidate at the Jung Institute of San Francisco.

I feel it is also important to mention that my own personal experiences inform my work (I am definitely human too!) and I am committed to stretching myself and growing alongside my clients. I have been a Buddhist practitioner with my own meditation practice since 2006. At times I may bring in some components of this into the therapy related to mindfulness and the development of kindness and compassion, which I think none of us can ever get enough of. And finally, I as a lover of the arts and as someone who dances and writes, I value and cherish the creative process in our work together.