Passion for people and stories

About Me

I graduated from the University of California, Irvine with my Bachelor’s in Film and Media Studies before pursuing a career in Film and Television. I found myself drawn to people and their stories and spent several years working in documentary film and television. People always fascinated me and I found myself drawn to their stories of resilience in the face of adversity even in the dire circumstances that they often found themselves in. My instinct in empathizing helped me connect with and perhaps briefly even walk alongside the subjects of a lot of my films. It sparked in me a curiosity about and an avid interest in the human experience, full of intricacy and fallacy as well as incredible resilience and rebirth. I found people fascinating and their stories unique and awe inspiring. This led me on a journey toward focusing a career on talking to people about their stories.

I graduated from Northwestern University with my Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy. I worked for almost two years in an intensive care environment working with partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient mental health clients. This helped me work with a myriad of mental health concerns including more severe crisis work. It also helped hone my comfort level with skills based therapies including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). I do believe in the importance of skills in overcoming certain mental health issues and having helpful things to do in between therapy sessions. I simultaneously started working in group private practice working with a myriad of couples, individuals, and families until finally taking the leap into private practice. 

Services Provided and Specialty Areas

I provide individualized therapy for adults, adolescents, couples, and families. I specialize in working with depression and anxiety. I have a clinical interest and experience in working with grief and with women and couples in their experience of the perinatal period (fertility issues, pregnancy, and postpartum). I have completed the initial 14 hour training certification course on Maternal Mental Health/Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders by PSI (Postpartum Support International).