Licensed to practice in California and accepts 40 insurances. Specializes in Anxiety, Life Transitions, Men's Issues and 4 more.
(he/they)
New to Grow
I’m a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience in community mental health settings. As a therapist and behavioral health practitioner, I have worked with complex trauma, psychosis, mood disorders, anxiety, depression, and co-occurring substance use. I have a masters degree in clinical psychology from the University of Amsterdam and lived in the Netherlands for six years. There, I also began building my family, and that international foundation shaped both how I think and how I work. I work with adults navigating a wide range of life challenges — from anxiety, depression, and relationship patterns to identity, major transitions, and the quieter but persistent sense that something just isn’t working. This includes people working through faith transitions or untangling the psychological weight of a strict or high-control religious upbringing — something I understand not just clinically, but personally. Whether you’re in crisis or simply ready to understand yourself better, I meet people where they are.
The first session is about getting oriented together. I’ll want to understand what brought you in now. We’ll talk about what you’re hoping for and what you’ve tried before, including what has and hasn’t worked. You set the pace. By the end of our first session my goal is that you leave feeling heard, having a beginning sense of whether we’re a good fit, and with some initial clarity on what the work might look like.
Two decades of clinical experience has shaped a practice built on steadiness, discretion, and genuine respect for the full range of human experience. Clients find they can bring their whole selves into the room.
My ideal client is someone who has done some living — who may have tried therapy before, has real self-awareness, and is ready to go deeper. They’re curious about themselves, even when that curiosity is uncomfortable. They want a collaborative relationship with their therapist. I work especially well with people who feel like they’ve had to edit themselves in other contexts — whether because of how they identify, how they relate, or how they live. Clients who are navigating the intersection of identity and mental health, questioning relationship structures, or working through a complicated history with substances will find this a genuinely non-judgmental space. I’m also well-suited to men who are ready to move past surface-level coping and do more honest, substantive work — men who may be skeptical of therapy but are willing to try something different.
Cash - $150 per session
Aetna
Aetna - Allied Benefits
Aetna - ASR Health Benefits
Aetna - Lucent Health
Aetna - Luminare
Aetna - Moda
Aetna - WebTPA
Aetna – HealthEZ
All Savers
Amerihealth Administrators
Arlo
AvMed
Carelon Behavioral Health (Commercial)
Centivo
Cigna
Cigna - HealthEZ
EAP:Cigna
EAP:Evernorth
EAP:UnitedHealthcare/Optum
Evernorth
Golden Rule
GTEB
Harvard Pilgrim/UnitedHealthcare
IHSS Healthy Workers
L.A. Care Covered
L.A. Care Covered Direct
L.A. Care PASC-SEIU
Optum
OptumHealth Complex Medical Conditions
Oscar
Oxford
Sharp Health Plan
Surest (formerly Bind)
Sutter Health Plan
Tufts Health/Cigna
United Medical Resources
UnitedHealthcare Life Insurance
UnitedHealthcare Shared Services
UnitedHealthcare StudentResources
UnitedHealthcare/Optum
I draw on Motivational Interviewing when ambivalence is at the center of the work — when part of you wants to change and part of you isn’t so sure. Rather than pushing toward a predetermined outcome, I follow your lead, helping you explore what matters to you and why. This is especially useful when it comes to substance use, habits, or life decisions where you may feel stuck between competing pulls.
No single therapeutic model has a monopoly on what helps people heal, and I’ve found that the most effective work draws from multiple frameworks depending on what a client actually needs. My training spans evidence-based approaches including IFS, motivational interviewing, somatic awareness, and attachment theory, among others. What that means in practice is that I’m not fitting you into a method — I’m building an approach around you. The goal is always the same: meaningful, lasting change.
Early relationships teach us what to expect from connection — whether others can be trusted, whether we are worthy of care, and how to manage closeness and distance. Attachment-focused therapy works by bringing those learned patterns into awareness, particularly the ones that show up in current relationships in ways that feel automatic or hard to explain. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes part of the work — a place to experience something different and, over time, to internalize it.
IFS gives me a map for understanding the inner conflicts that keep people stuck — the part that wants to change and the part that sabotages it, the inner critic alongside the one it’s protecting. Rather than treating these as flaws to fix, we get curious about what each part is carrying and why. This approach is especially powerful for trauma, shame, and self-defeating patterns, and it tends to feel less like being analyzed and more like finally being understood.