Psychotherapy

I offer transpersonal psychotherapy for adults seeking meaningful change in their lives and relationships.

People come to therapy for many reasons—trauma, grief and loss, relationship patterns, emotional overwhelm, major life transitions, or a quieter sense that something within is asking to change.

My approach is relational, somatic, and trauma-informed, bringing together Western psychology and the contemplative wisdom of Eastern traditions.

Therapy with me attends to the whole person—body, heart, mind, and spirit—as interconnected ways of experiencing, knowing, and healing.

Our histories live not only in our thoughts and memories, but also in our bodies. Trauma, attachment, loss, and chronic stress can shape how we experience relationship, uncertainty, and change.

In therapy, we may slow down enough to notice sensation, emotion, breath, and the subtle ways the body responds. Often, what we experience as a problem began as an intelligent way of protecting ourselves. As these patterns become more conscious, new possibilities can emerge.

Much of what wounds us happens in relationship. Relationship can also become a place of healing.

Together, we can become curious about closeness and distance, trust and vulnerability, needs and boundaries, conflict and repair.

My intention is to create enough safety, honesty, and compassion for the parts of you that have needed to protect themselves to gradually become known.

Grief is a natural part of being human. It can follow the death of someone we love, the end of a relationship, a change in health or identity, or the slow loss of a future we had hoped for.

Our culture often encourages us to resolve grief quickly. I believe grief needs time, relationship, and a place where it can be witnessed without being hurried.

Western psychology offers important ways of understanding trauma, attachment, development, and relationship. Eastern wisdom traditions invite another kind of inquiry: How do we relate to our experience?

My own contemplative practice has deeply influenced the way I listen and work, bringing attention to awareness, compassion, presence, and our relationship with suffering.

Therapy does not require a spiritual orientation. When it is meaningful to you, there is room to explore questions of meaning, purpose, mortality, belonging, and our relationship to something larger than ourselves.

• Religious and spiritual trauma therapy: treatment for the psychological effects of high-control religion, spiritual abuse, or misconduct and boundary violations by a teacher, guru, healer, or community.
• Ritual within therapy: where it serves the work, we may bring ritual into therapy—to mark a loss, a transition, or a turning point—alongside evidence-based approaches.
• Psychedelic integration therapy: integration focuses on understanding the psychological, relational, somatic, and spiritual material that emerged during a psychedelic experience you have already had, and translating that material into meaningful, grounded change.

Psychotherapy is available to residents of California.