About Me

I grew up in the Bay Area of Northern California, where layered histories and diverse communities shaped my early sense of self and my relationship to community. Those experiences sparked a lifelong interest in identity, the stories we inherit, and how they change over time. I care deeply about people, creativity, and the ways art, music, and expression can help us make meaning. I believe healing itself can be art. 

I hold an intersectional lens in my work, honoring the ways culture, systems, and privilege shape our lives and relationships. I’m influenced by thinkers and practitioners who center compassion, relational safety, and systemic awareness, and whose work reminds me that healing is never separate from the world we live in. My hope for you, as a client, is to find an alliance that feels rooted in well-earned and deserved safety.

Like many of my clients, I’ve known pain, anxiety, and trauma, as well as the long process of making sense of life’s experiences. I value curiosity, compassion, and a learner’s mindset. I believe it is my job to be in a constant state of learning. 

In the therapy room, I’m candid, sometimes funny (although my teenage clients might not agree), and am always human first. I believe deep healing happens in safe, collaborative relationships where you’re met just as you are, without pressure to be anything else.