Teletherapy for California

Are you feeling stuck? Would you like to understand yourself better? One-on-one therapy can help you move through challenging experiences and explore feelings, preferences, and behaviors, in a safe, confidential, supportive environment. If you are struggling in your relationship(s), relational therapy can help you adapt to transitions, foster clear and supportive communication, and meet underlying relational needs. Therapy can also build on individual, couple, and family strengths, and encourage healthy growth through challenges and transitions.

As a non-binary, gender expansive, masculine person I walk the middle ground of societies claim of male and female roles and intentions. I offer my experience to others to find their specific and unique understanding of their gender and sexuality. I enjoy helping both individuals and couples to navigate the multi-directional obstacle course of life in order to help you feel more confident and connected. I am offering my lifetime of experience and intuition to assist others in finding their own path for living authentically.

Help is hard to ask for, especially when it comes to mental health. Let me assure you of a few things: My approach is strength-centered and collaborative. You are the expert on your life and experience. I can help you with understanding and managing anxiety, depression, and healing from past trauma. Together we can work on building emotional intelligence, distress tolerance, and communication skills. For couples, I use Gottman-informed education and interventions. As a non-binary Butch person, I enjoy working with people in learning more about and affirming their sexuality and gender. You don’t have to do this alone.

I am accepting new clients! I have had the privilege of working with a diverse set of clients with a wide range of backgrounds and needs. I offer a supportive space that counters the normativity within this culture that often is oppressive to people based on their identities. I recognize that what healing journey one person, relationship or family may need may be different than another and help to support you on that journey. In addition to being neurodivergent and transgender myself, I have also supported folks who are neurodivergent, queer and/or plural.

The teenage years are filled with anxieties of self discovery and identity. As a young adult you may have parts of yourself you feel like you must hide. You may feel like there are conflicts with who you are, and how you currently present in the world. You may be coming to a deeper understanding of your gender or sexual identity. It can be hard to know how to talk to your parents. This can be a scary time filled with a lot of fear, curiosity, uncertainty, and grief; all of which can complicate your relationship with your family and friends. Together we can explore ways to find a little more ease in the journey.

We ALL need compassionate, focused empathy, supportive insight, and unconditional acceptance, whatever your background, occupation, culture, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, relationships, worldview, politics. I am uniquely equipped to help you find and express your best self and create solutions. Change IS possible. First consultation free. In-person sessions at my office in Beverly Hills, and telehealth throughout California.

Let’s collaborate so we can work together to support your ongoing healing and growth. I work towards engaging from a compassionate, anti-oppressive, and trauma informed positionality. One of my focuses is on collaborating to better understand yourself as an integrated mind/body/spirit/social/relational being (soma) and reprocessing what your soma holds. Some of the ways in which we can do this is through building upon the stories that empower you and learning skills for personal and/or interpersonal fulfillment. We all deserve to live our lives liberated from the reactive survival responses of trauma.

I have a deep passion for helping people find liberation from concerns that bring them to therapy. Understanding why we do things the way we do them is critical to growth, change and healing. I ground my work in warmth, compassion, authenticity and an understanding of how thoughts and emotions relate to neuro/physiological processes, as well as how past experiences inform current beliefs, thoughts, feelings and behaviors. My aim is to help you gain clarity into underlying causes of problems, provide strategies for coping and support you in taking risks and trying new ways of being, to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

BIPOC: Black, Indigenous, &/or People of Color. Includes white-passing & mixed-race BIPOC. Welcome Dear Reader, whether these are first steps or a familiar return, may our steps together support your movements. I am a Chinese-American Queer, by Ancestors’ way of Guangdong Province, China. My family settled on unceded Muwekma Ohlone territory (San Francisco) 3.5 generations ago, where I was born. Since then, I have supported folx's holistic health at opposite ends of the state, nation, and globe.

I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a therapeutic focus on gender and sexuality, early trauma, and family and relationship dynamics. My approach is empathic, warm, and thoughtful. My clients often wish to understand their identities more deeply; seek support staying true to themselves in their relationships and community; and pursue healing and meaning-making following trauma. Through our work, you can develop new insights and coping skills to manage overwhelm, anxiety, depression, or life transitions. I'm particularly dedicated to working with queer, transgender, non-binary, and kink communities.

I am a queer artist, activist and therapist. I believe deeply in healing, and my practice as a therapist is one way I use my own healing journey to inform and create space for others to explore theirs. I seek to center my work on empowering and supporting people in the LGBTQIA+ community navigating all the emotional work it takes to exist in an oppressive culture - anxiety, depression, relationships, sex, gender, substance use, family , housing, employment, etc. Whether directly or indirectly through my practice, I also work to uplift and center the empowerment of queer, trans*, Black, indigenous and people of color (QTBIPOC).

Reaching out for support can be hard, and talking about painful feelings and experiences can be scary. As a therapist, I work collaboratively with you to build a therapy plan that fits your unique needs, strengths, and challenges. I work with individuals (teens & adults), families, and monogamous and non-monogamous relationship constellations. I have particular interest and experience working with the LGBTQIA+ community and with current and former athletes. My work is influenced by psychodynamic, attachment, and social justice theories, as well as contemplative psychology, somatics, and strengths-based approaches.

Are you at a point in your life where you feel you are ready for a change but don’t know where to start? Have you been struggling to take control of an addiction or compulsive behavior and have had no luck on you own? Are you overwhelmed with negative thoughts that leave you paralyzed to take action? Are you struggling to find or maintain healthy relationships with partners, family , friends, or co-workers? Perhaps you're just finally ready to work on yourself, level-up, and enrich your life by establishing a deeper relationship with YOU.

As a person originally trained in psychodynamics, I care greatly about the experiences and relationships that have shaped you. I am currently perusing more training and consultation in Internal Family Systems and trauma informed approaches. Of primary focus, in my work with clients, is the therapeutic relationship. It is here that our patterns of relating often reveal themselves. Through the safe container of therapy, I invite my clients into new ways of being that invite more creativity, flexibility and deeper relationships.

My passion lies in helping individuals heal from emotional and relational wounds to enable them to live more fulfilling lives with healthier relationships. Some of my specialties include trauma/PTSD, relational issues, family of origin issues, eating disorder recovery (outpatient and medically stabilized), women's issues, and working with the LGBTQ+ community. You might be a fit for me if your goals for therapy include better understanding yourself and others, improving relational functioning, and higher sense of self-worth and self-esteem.

I have a passion for supporting LGBTQIA+ individuals seeking support for a variety of issues across family and other community systems impacting their lives.

You are a product of your community. As a result, you are a Survivor of the traumas, the cultural norms, and the "rules" that you followed in order to stay alive. When you based your survival on another's expectation of you, you eventually found yourself lost in the limbo of sacrificing your authenticity and your voice for the happiness and success of your social circle, family , and/or your community.