I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.

– Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT#165589) practicing in Beverly Hills and Los Feliz. I hold a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles and a Bachelor’s in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California.

I practice a form of psychoanalytic and neurodiversity-affirming therapy rooted in the body, meaning I am most interested in helping you experience life, and death for that matter, with more clarity and embodiment. I listen for and respond to how and what you express – and equally what you don’t express – with presence and respect. Sometimes this shows itself through the way it feels when we’re together in a room or on a screen, when we talk or think about whatever comes to your mind, your dreams, your anguish. My hope is that by being together, once or more times a week, we find ways for you to feel more, generate more possibilities and vitality, and enjoy yourself and life with more freedom.

I’ve completed training and received certificates in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Wright Institute Los Angeles (WILA) and child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the New Center of Psychoanalysis working with adults, children and adolescents who have all taught me a great deal. The people I work with share music, films, cultural phenomena, stories, and memories they haven’t thought about or talked about in years, if ever, with me. I think it’s just the coolest thing.

I find psychotherapy is subversive, an act of resistance, and inherently political in that it is an opportunity to explore what could not be previously felt or thought about in the presence of another.