Services & Specialties

  • You’re capable, accomplished, and used to figuring things out on your own. Yet underneath the success, you may feel overwhelmed, disconnected, self-doubting, or exhausted from trying to hold everything together. Perhaps the strategies that helped you succeed—perfectionism, overthinking, masking, people-pleasing, or staying constantly busy—aren’t working anymore. You might feel lost and unsure of your goals. As a result, you may be struggling with spiraling thoughts, up and down mood, irritability, loneliness, and a persistent questioning of your identity.

    I work with culturally diverse and neurodiverse professionals, graduate students, and other high achievers who want more than simply functioning well. They want to feel confident in who they are, trust themselves, build fulfilling relationships, and create a life that feels authentic and meaningful. 

    If you’re ready to move beyond simply holding it all together and create a more grounded, connected life, I’d be glad to hear from you.

  • You care about each other and have built a meaningful life together, but lately, it may feel harder to find your way back to one another. Conversations that once felt easy can turn into arguments, misunderstandings, or silence. Maybe you keep having the same fights without reaching resolution, feel increasingly distant, or find yourselves caught in a cycle where one partner pursues connection while the other pulls away. Even when you both want things to be different, it can be difficult to know how to break patterns that have become deeply ingrained.

    I work with couples who want to understand each other more deeply, communicate in ways that actually lead to connection, repair hurts, navigate differences with greater flexibility, and create a partnership where both people feel seen, valued, and supported.

    Couples therapy can be an opportunity to slow down, understand what’s happening beneath the conflict, and begin relating to each other in a new way. If you’re ready to move toward greater understanding, closeness, and a relationship that feels more like a partnership, please reach out!

    I have extensive training in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), including training with Dr. Andrew Christensen, the developer of IBCT, who was my mentor and research advisor at UCLA. I also enjoy working with neurodiverse couples, whether one or both partners are neurodivergent. My approach is active, experiential, and compassionate.

  • Healing doesn’t always happen through words alone. For some people, making sense of their experiences also involves spirituality, intuition, ancestry, connection to nature, or a deeper sense of purpose. Spiritual counseling creates space to explore these dimensions of your life alongside your emotional and psychological wellbeing, without requiring you to subscribe to a particular religion or belief system.

    For clients who are interested, I draw from Meso-American curanderismo traditions, incorporating practices such as pláticas, limpias, and ancestral connection. We might explore the role of intuition in your life, create or deepen an ancestral altar, incorporate herbs and plants into your holistic practices, or find ways to strengthen your relationship with the natural world. These practices can offer meaningful ways to connect with your values, identity, history, and sense of belonging.

    My approach is grounded in respect for your individual beliefs and experiences. Whether you are reconnecting with ancestral traditions, exploring spirituality for the first time, or simply seeking a deeper sense of meaning and alignment, I offer a space where these parts of you can be welcomed into the therapeutic process.

    Spiritual counseling is available as part of my psychology practice for clients who are interested in incorporating these perspectives into their therapy. I also offer spiritual services separately through my non-psychological practice. If you are primarily looking for spiritual offerings, you can learn more here.

My Values & Approach

With more than 20 years of experience, I bring together evidence-based psychological approaches with relational, culturally responsive, and integrative healing perspectives. Together, we can explore the patterns beneath the feelings that you are somehow “too much” or “not enough.” My approach is warm and collaborative, while also active and engaged—I won't simply sit back and listen. I will help you understand yourself, build practical skills, and make meaningful changes.

The evidence-based approaches I integrate are Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy (IBCT). I am experienced in supporting people seeking help with anxiety, bipolarity, C-PTSD, depression, neurodivergence (ADHD, Autism, AuDHD), and OCD.

As a bicultural, multiethnic psychologist, I view culture and lived experience as sources of strength. I am committed to antiracism, social justice, and standing in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, both personally and professionally. I am culturally, neurodivergent, and spiritually affirming, sex-positive, and poly/kink-aware. You don’t have to leave your culture, spirituality, or authentic self at the door.

Therapy with me is a space to stop performing, become more fully yourself, and discover that confidence doesn't have to come from having everything figured out. It can come from knowing yourself, trusting yourself, and feeling grounded in who you are.