Background

I began my private practice in 2016 after working in county and community mental health settings, supporting individuals navigating complex stressors across many life circumstances. Working in schools, hospitals, and behavioral health clinics gave me a broad foundation and helped me recognize how early life experiences, chronic stress, and unresolved emotional patterns often resurface later in life.

Living and working in cities such as New York City and Los Angeles, and now back home in the Bay Area, has shaped my perspective on identity, culture, immigration, and the impact of environment on mental health. These experiences reinforced my understanding that emotional well-being is shaped not only by individual history, but also by relational, cultural, and systemic contexts.

Over time, I’ve worked with many clients whose emotional and relational struggles show up both internally and physically, through patterns of anxiety, disconnection, tension, fatigue, sleep disruption, pain, or feeling chronically overwhelmed. Today, my work centers on helping people understand long-standing emotional and relational themes shaped by early life, family dynamics, cultural context, and intergenerational experiences, and how these patterns continue to influence both emotional and physical well-being.

I’m deeply committed to ongoing learning and reflective practice, and I’m drawn to approaches that help make sense of how people become who they are and how early adaptations continue to shape emotional life, relationships, and physical well-being. Rather than working from a single modality, my perspective integrates attachment, relational, trauma-informed, and mind–body approaches.

I take seriously what it means to show up well for my clients. I make space for time in nature, movement, music, and creative outlets, which help me remain present and engaged in my work. This work matters to me, and I approach it with care and respect.