I love helping others to make sense of their issues through an integrative approach. My specialties are, (1) Couples, Families and Individuals; (2) Multicultural Issues; (3) Work with actors, models, and sexual workers; (4) Negotiations.

Life can be hard, but everything is easier with the right support. Maybe you’re dissatisfied with a relationship. Maybe you’re unhappy at work. Maybe you’re uncomfortable in your own skin. Having someone to talk to can make all the difference. People are extremely resilient, and I believe we all have the capacity for growth and positive change at any point in our lives. By tapping into your unique strengths, we can work together and create your best life—one that’s filled with peace, meaning and happiness.

IN-PERSON & TELEHEALTH AVAILABLE - Finding the right therapist can feel overwhelming. I'm here for you. I value a collaborative therapeutic alliance built on trust and a willingness to work together to meet treatment goals. I believe in the importance of listening to my patients, as well as offering both empathy and guidance. I employ a client-centered approach to build strong therapeutic relationships with my patients.

I work with adults and adolescents to help them understand the impact of their thoughts, feelings, and actions on their wellbeing. I offer an active and empowering space to navigate issues such as anxiety, low mood, family conflict, identity confusion, and cultural transitions. I also provide therapy/coaching for work and school-related stress, low motivation, attention difficulties, and time management. People working with me will learn how their life experiences affect their ability to cope with challenges effectively.

When you or your kids/teens are struggling, you need tailored, individualized tools and strategies to tackle any issue, empowering you to achieve. I help kids, teens, and you attain success within yourself, your family, school, work, peers, and with all your relationships. My clients always feel supported and learn several techniques to manage stress, conquer communication difficulties, and improve emotional/behavioral responses. You'll feel more confident and will be able to ask for what you need. We will work together to set goals and learn strategies to be successful throughout life, so you can succeed without needing me!

Having sexual trauma can turn your world upside down. It can be very hard to build relationships, and trusting others becomes that much harder. If there is sexual trauma as a child then the trust and innocence are lost early. If it is as an adult then the meaning and idea of what you knew trust to be are now shifted. Being in a relationship with sexual trauma history can be a rollercoaster ride filled with unknown twists and turns. I know that the needs and changes may be different for those individuals and their partners. My goal is to work together with my clients to relieve the pressure of the reprogrammed trauma brain.

Personal difficulties often entail masking your feelings in your daily life. It's important to me to create a space for you where you can just relax and be yourself. Struggles are a normal part of living; likewise the desire not to struggle alone. I support clients by helping them gain insight, build skills, and utilize their strengths in the interest of being resilient and "struggling well."

I believe that healing can occur within the context of a trusted relationship. I work with adults and families to help people better understand the things that are getting in the way of living a full, productive, and satisfying life. That could be a child’s struggle with emotional regulation, a parent’s difficulty setting limits or understanding their child’s behavior, an adult who struggles to develop and sustain intimate relationships, or a teenager who feels overwhelmed by all that is on their plate.

Feeling lost, hurt, angry, overwhelmed or worried? Know that you are not alone. As you begin to think about what is next, how to feel better and how to start the next chapter in your life think about giving yourself the opportunity of creating a fresh start.

Relationships, no matter what kind make us who we are. We can not know who we are if we don’t know of those around us. Our everyday interactions with those around us, large or small, impact us as a result. There’s nothing more rewarding than sitting with clients, hearing how small changes towards healthy relationships has improved their lives. This includes nurturing the relationship with self- an important relationship in all our lives that we often ignore.

My work years ago with adolescents led naturally to working more closely with parents, who often struggle themselves during this turbulent time for their children. A third of my practice is with adolescents (anxiety, depression, academic underachievement, identity issues), another third with parents and couples/marriage (with or without children), and the other third with individual adults (anxiety, depression, issues of generativity in personal and/or professional lives).

ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS/ACEPTANDO NUEVOS PACIENTES: Are you feeling like you are stuck in a rut or unsatisfied with the quality of your relationships? Are you trying to improve your relationship or rebuild from a break up? Perhaps you are having trouble adjusting to a much wanted or even unplanned/unexpected life change. I work collaboratively with you to reactivate your strengths, make healthy changes, and find your sense of improvement/satisfaction/adjustment.

Family dynamics a struggle? Do past hurts get in the way of your happiness today? Are your relationships becoming difficult? Are you struggling with your identity? Are your thoughts consuming you? If so, I can help. Appointments available for new clients! My approach is realistic, yet nurturing, and is rooted in family systems, neuropsychology and the mind-body connection. I use an empathetic, warm style that is based on clinical knowledge about how thoughts, emotions and behaviors impact our lives. I work with clients in the present moment, drawing on past experiences and relationships to build personal insight and new perspective

I am pleased to offer easy-to-use TeleHealth/teletherapy services to all patients. It takes a great deal of courage to share your experiences with someone, and I am honored to walk this journey with you! Together we can explore how current (and past) stressors and uncertainties may be impacting your lived experience. I aim to co-create an open and warm therapeutic space of collaboration where we can unfold your experiences and culture while strengthening insight, healthy coping skills, and self-compassion. In this process we can explore a holistic understanding of your self in the context of your relationships and the world.

Many people come to me saying that they don't recognize themselves anymore or that they are not living the life they want to be living. They might feel plagued with negative thoughts, fear, anxiety and overall feel stuck because the things they were using to cope in the past are not helping them now. If you have been feeling this way, I want you to know that you are not alone and that there is treatment for you as an individual. Treatment can drastically change your life and that way you are interacting in your life!

I have worked with youth, teens, young adults, and families in educational, community mental health, and private practice settings. I am motivated to help clients empower themselves through a strength-based approach rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Multisystemic. I support clients who have been through trauma, harmful relationships, or who are experiencing depression, behavioral issues, academic problems, anxiety, problem sexual behavior, or cultural issues. I am empathic, invested, collaborative, and curious; I strive to help those along their journey by helping them better understand themselves and their experiences.

Though each person’s experience is unique, a common thread is that not knowing where emotions come from adds to distress. My hope is to provide a nonjudgmental place to better understand your emotions so that you can gain a sense of control in creating a meaningful life. A meaningful life may involve feeling comfortable sitting alone with your thoughts, the past becoming less haunting, more effective communication in relationships, feeling productive, or something else. Whatever you are working towards, I am here to support you.

I believe that therapy can be a rewarding experience for everyone. As a practitioner, I work closely with my clients, using a strengths-based approach, to help create change and achieve their personal and professional goals. By engaging in the therapeutic process, my clients are able to identify problem areas in their lives and relationships, increase their ability to communicate effectively, find new ways of relating to themselves and others, as well as develop positive strategies for successful conflict resolution.

I offer client-centered supportive & insight-oriented therapy, & enjoy connecting deeply with people at all stages of recovery from psychological worries—from those interested in trying therapy for the first time to folks returning for another period of healing, exploration, & growth. I have a warm, non-judgmental temperament that allows people to share what brings them into session, even when the issues may feel overwhelming or hard to talk about. After receiving my clinical MSW at the internationally recognized Smith College School for Social Work, I completed a post-graduate Fellowship at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.

The most courageous and compassionate act one can perform is the request for help. People often believe if they pay attention to a problem that they will make it worse or that the pain associated with the problem will overwhelm them. Yet in my clinical experience and in my own life, the opposite is in fact true. The longer we ignore pain or a problem, the worse it gets. I believe it is in the confronting of our problems that we begin to heal and discover that we are much stronger than we thought.