I’m a Licensed Clinical psychologist dedicated to helping you create real, lasting change by tapping into your inner motivation and embracing your true personality, without the need to mask who you are. I earned my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the APA-accredited California School of Professional Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Multicultural Community Psychology. I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychological assessment.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
We'll talk about what brought you to therapy, what you'd like to work on, and what you hope to get out of our time together. I'll ask about your history, current challenges, and what has or hasn't worked for you. It's normal to feel nervous. My role is to create a calm, supportive space where you feel safe to share at your own pace.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I integrate cultural awareness and respect for your beliefs, values, and identity into every step of the process. I'll help you explore how past attachment experiences, inner child, current stressors, and deeper patterns influence the present, while staying focused on practical, solution-oriented steps forward.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
Specialize in working with adolescents, college students, adults, and older adults who are navigating anxiety, breakups, low self-esteem, stress, ADHD, life transitions, and grief. We’ll talk about what brought you to therapy, what you’d like to work on, and what you hope to get out of our time together. I’ll also ask some questions about your history, current challenges, and what has or hasn’t worked for you in the past. We will create your treatment plan based on your goals for therapy. My goal is to help you reconnect with your strengths, challenge unhelpful patterns, and move forward with clarity and purpose. Together, we’ll work toward meaningful self-improvement, grounded in the belief that we have power over our minds and the freedom to live authentically.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
My approach is warm, affirming, empowering, collaborative, and practical. I believe therapy should be a space where you feel safe to be yourself—no masking, no judgment—just real conversations about what you want to change and how we can get there. I use a blend of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, and Schema Therapy to help you understand patterns, build new skills, and create lasting shifts in your thinking and behavior. I tailor each session to your unique needs.
Schema Therapy
Schema Therapy helps clients process loss by identifying how early maladaptive schemas influence their emotional response to bereavement. Loss may activate schemas such as abandonment, emotional deprivation, or vulnerability, intensifying feelings of sadness, fear, and loneliness. Through schema-focused interventions, clients are supported in understanding these patterns and responding to grief with greater self-compassion and emotional awareness. For anxiety, Schema Therapy addresses the underlying schemas that maintain excessive worry and fear, such as vulnerability to harm, defectiveness, or unrelenting standards. Clients learn to recognize schema triggers, understand their emotional and behavioral responses, and develop healthier coping strategies. In treating depression, Schema Therapy focuses on negative core beliefs that contribute to feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, and low self-esteem. Schemas such as defectiveness/shame and failure are explored and challenged through cognitive restructuring and experiential exercises. The therapist uses a supportive, validating stance to help clients develop a stronger “Healthy Adult” mode, promoting adaptive thinking and emotional regulation.
Mind-body approach
Treatment for clients with ADHD is grounded in a neurodivergent-affirming framework that recognizes ADHD as a difference in neurological functioning rather than a deficit. The therapeutic focus is on supporting regulation, accessibility, self-understanding, and quality of life, while reducing shame and internalized stigma. Interventions prioritize psychoeducation about ADHD and the nervous system to help clients understand how attention, motivation, and emotional regulation function differently in neurodivergent brains. This understanding promotes self-compassion and reduces self-blame related to productivity, focus, or emotional intensity. Executive functioning support is provided through collaborative exploration of external supports rather than internal pressure. Interventions may include visual reminders, body doubling, flexible routines, interest-based motivation, and environmental modifications that align with the client’s natural attention patterns. Emotion-focused and somatic approaches are used to help clients process emotional overwhelm, frustration, and rejection sensitivity. Techniques such as mindfulness, self-soothing practices, and EFT tapping may be incorporated to support emotional regulation and reduce stress without requiring sustained cognitive effort. A strong emphasis is placed on identity-affirming work, supporting clients in reframing past experiences through a neurodivergent lens. Therapy helps clients process grief related to late diagnosis, missed support, or chronic misunderstanding, while building a positive neurodivergent identity and sense of self-worth.
Attachment-based
Attachment-based interventions are also used to support grief processing. Loss can activate attachment systems, intensifying feelings of sadness, fear, or disconnection. Therapy provides space for clients to mourn losses while exploring how attachment histories influence their grief responses. Clients are supported in integrating loss while maintaining emotional connection and resilience.