LMFT, 5 years of experience
I am a licensed MFT clinician in California with 6 years of eclectic psychotherapy work experience. I thrive on collaborating/working with clients to help them process and manage stress, symptoms of anxiety and depression, a distorted sense of self, trauma from individual/familial abuse as well as the systemic factors therein, schizophrenia spectrum challenges/symptoms, and personality disorders (e.g., antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder). I believe in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while maintaining strong/healthy boundaries. I will tailor our dialogue and treatment plan to meet your unique and specific needs as we work through what you desire to focus on. I have worked with a variety of clients in different mental health organizations and schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County. I am comfortable and have experience working with trauma-related stress disorders, major depression, personality disorders (e.g., borderline personality), isolation/loneliness, suicidal thoughts, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders/symptoms. I treat both adults and older teens (18 and over) through individual psychotherapy. I believe in treating everyone with emotional sensitivity while maintaining strong clinical/ethical boundaries. However, gentle confrontations may be needed as a way to bring awareness to certain aspects of the work, though I am mostly collaborative in working with my client's areas of concern, which they want to focus on during sessions. I ask (Socratic) questions based on therapeutic timing and will provide evidence-based psychoeducation when needed, always moving the session with clinical intuition as the process unfolds.
During the consultation (or initial intake) session, individuals can expect me to listen mindfully as I conceptualize some of the mental health challenges, asking a variety of questions to assess thoroughly, what's going on, clinically. I will reflect back my thoughts about what is happening in relation to emotional-psychological concerns and suggest a psychotherapy approach. You can then expect every session thereafter to be focused on psychotherapy strategies/methods (e.g., CBT, Jungian, IPT, psychoeducation, via clinical self-awareness).
I constantly use a mindfulness-based approach to psychotherapy. Moreover, I do have a good gauge of what symptoms are coming up, which may be rooted in various life circumstances. This allows me to articulate to clients the plausibility of what is happening as a way for clients to reflect on and build awareness around. As a result, I can offer a psychotherapy space-modality (e.g., CBT, IPT, Jungian) for clients to process and progress towards their goals.
My preference and expertise is working with individual clients, 1-1, who have been exposed to mild-to-moderate anxiety/depression, considerable trauma, which have produced a complex psychological reaction (e.g., C-PTSD, OCD, General Anxiety Disorder, personality disorders, behavioral/substance addictions, and/or suicidal thoughts from major depressive symptoms).
I have used CBT for the last five years as an evidenced-based treatment modality, which I incorporate with mindfulness-based interventions.
1 rating with written reviews
June 4, 2025
Was great very professional and direcr