I believe that therapy is not about fixing ourselves. It is about building resilience and developing flexibility and creativity in how you navigate your intimate relationships. as well as deepening your trust and understanding of yourself. As your therapist I act as your partner and teammate, offering a nonjudgmental space for you to explore your hopes and fears. Understanding the origins of persistent relational patterns, learning to track and regulate our nervous systems and healing attachment wounds can help to bring us out of the past-where our traumas were originally experienced-and into the present moment, where something new is possible.I specialize in repairing attachment trauma, psychodynamics, anxiety, depression, parenting, couples, sexuality and gender, grief and major life transitions. I weave in a relational somatic approach, internal family systems, Buddhism and mindfulness, and the genuine care that one human can offer another, to help deepen our work with one another.

 

Although I am a San Franciscan native, I have spent time living in other parts of state and country such as Santa Cruz, Oakland, Texas and New York. Prior to becoming a therapist I worked for 20 years as a midwife, providing prenatal, birth and post partum care as well as well-woman care in a variety of settings. I studied Nonfiction Creative Writing at The New School for Social Research and have published a piece titled "In Training: Two Birth Stories" in the magazine Midwifery Today as well as two poems in “What BooK?! Buddha's Poems from Beat Hiphop”. I attended California Institute of Integral Studies to attain my masters in Psychology. I am a member of CAMFT, have studied Transformative Couples Counseling and EMDR.

 

The thing that informs my work the most, however, has been my experience of learning to be in a relationship with my partner, children, parents and friends in a honest and connected way. With age, spiritual practice, and my own therapy, I feel closer to myself and more capable of being genuine about who I am with others. My own work on myself has helped me to express love more freely and receive the love of others more easily. I bring both my empathy to my clients as well as my belief that healing is possible-and my understanding of how that healing happens. 

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