Licensed to practice in California and accepts 4 insurances. Specializes in Anxiety, Emotional Regulation, Family Conflict and 4 more.
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I am a holistic psychotherapist guiding women who feel deeply in a world that often tells them they are too much. Maybe you have always sensed things others seem to brush off. Maybe your relationships feel intense, your body carries tension you cannot explain, and you are exhausted from trying to hold it all together when no one taught you how to pause. My practice is rooted in a simple truth: your sensitivity is not a flaw to be fixed. It is an intelligent design, a navigation system that has been trying to protect you even when it felt overwhelming. Together, we gently widen the lens to see how your nervous system, beliefs, relationships, and history are woven together. Drawing from integrative mental health, trauma-informed somatic practices, and quantum biology, I help you translate what your body and emotions have been communicating all along. Through weekly sessions, we create a space where you do not have to perform or push through. You can learn to trust what you feel rather than override it. My own journey through anxiety, health challenges, and spiritual awakening informs my approach: I walk beside you not as an authority with answers, but as a fellow traveler who understands what it feels like to be told your reactions are too much. If you are longing for a place where your deep feelings make sense and where you can begin to inhabit your sensitivity as strength rather than a burden, I would be honored to explore whether we are a good fit. Sessions are offered via secure telehealth for residents of CA, MA, and AZ..
Your first session is not an intake forms exercise or a clinical assessment that leaves you feeling more like a case than a person. It is a conversation, one that begins wherever you are right now. You might feel nervous. That is welcome here. You might not have the words for everything yet, and you do not need to. Many women arrive feeling like they have to present their story in a neat, organized way, you do not have to do that in this space. I will ask some gentle questions to understand what brings you in and what your life looks like day to day. But just as importantly, I will be listening for what lives beneath the surface. How your body is carrying things. Where you might be overriding your own needs. What patterns have been following you longer than you realized. By the end of our first session, my hope is that you feel three things. First, that you were genuinely heard, not just listened to. Second, that what you shared made sense rather than feeling like a list of problems. Third, that you have a sense of what our work together might look like and whether it feels like a fit. You do not have to decide anything permanent in that first hour. Therapy is a relationship, and it matters that it feels right. If it does, we begin building from there at a pace that respects your nervous system, not one that pushes you to perform progress. If it does not, that is okay too. You still leave with a little more clarity than you came in with.
What women often tell me they feel in our sessions is relief. Not because something was fixed, but because finally someone was not rushing them toward a solution or pathologizing what they feel. That is the foundation of how I work. I bring a deep capacity to sit with complexity. Many women I see have been carrying layered experiences: relationship patterns that feel impossible to untangle, bodily symptoms that no one has connected to their emotional world, a sense that they are somehow too much and not enough at the same time. I am not unsettled by that terrain. I understand it intimately. My approach stands out because I do not separate the mind from the body or the nervous system from the soul. I weave integrative mental health, trauma-informed somatic awareness, and quantum biology into how I listen. When a woman describes anxiety, I am also hearing what her nervous system is signaling. When she speaks about exhaustion, I am tracking how her relationships and history may be shaping her physiology. This means the work goes deeper than symptom management. We are tracing the roots. I also bring the perspective of someone who has walked through her own unraveling. I know what it costs to live in a body that feels everything intensely, to be told your reactions are too big, to wonder what is wrong. That lived experience shapes how I hold space. There is no performance of empathy. It is resonance. Most importantly, I treat sensitivity as intelligence, not a deficit. Women leave sessions feeling seen in a way that helps them trust what they already sensed but were taught to doubt. That is where real change begins, not in being told what to do, but in being reminded that what you feel has always been valid.
My ideal client is a young woman in her early 20s who has always felt things a little more than everyone around her. She might not have a name for it yet. She just knows that relationships hit her harder, that she absorbs other people's moods without meaning to, that her body holds tension she cannot fully explain. She may have been told she is too sensitive, too much, or that she needs to toughen up. She has likely spent years trying to shrink herself to fit spaces that were never built for her wiring. She might feel lonelier than she lets on. Not because no one is around, but because it is hard to feel truly met when you experience the world at a depth others do not seem to share. She may have pulled back from friendships or relationships that left her feeling unseen, or stayed in connections that drained her because being alone felt scarier. Either way, there is a quiet ache of not quite belonging. She might be navigating her first serious relationships, early career pressure, family dynamics that still follow her into adulthood, or a growing sense that the life she was handed does not quite fit. Her body may be starting to speak: disrupted sleep, digestive issues, anxiety that peaks without warning, a wired-but-tired feeling she cannot shake. She wants someone who can help her understand why she feels this way and show her that her sensitivity is not a malfunction. She is curious, even if she does not fully trust herself yet. She is ready to stop performing and start learning what her nervous system actually needs. She does not need to be fixed. She needs to be understood, and to discover that what she has always felt was valid all along.
I utilize a strength-based positive approach with my clients to increase self-esteem and a shift in focus on what are the positive qualities that make each individual unique.
I provide a holistic wellness approach to raise awareness of the empowerment that comes with developing a deeper understanding of and connection with your mind, body and soul wisdom.
This modality I have been implementing for clients ready to go deeper to explore and empower themselves in releasing old programs and built up emotions.
I am certified in Integrative Mental Health, Quantum Biology for Health, Clinical Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy, and HeartMath and will assess, educate and empower clients to make positive health-conscious choices around sleep, nutrition, movement, breath work and mindfulness.
I provide education and recommendations towards healthier positive action steps and incorporate hypnotherapy sessions when appropriate.