How Can I Help?

People come to me for many reasons, but common themes include anxiety, stress, and the quiet depression that can hide behind a high-functioning, productive life. Whether you are navigating a life transition, career shift, loss, relationship beginning or ending, or questions about who you are and what you want, I can walk alongside you and offer tools to support meaningful change.

As a trauma-informed therapist, I offer EMDR sessions to help address the lasting imprint trauma can leave on the body and nervous system.

I also work with couples whose communication keeps breaking down, emotional distance is quietly growing, or who simply want to create a more intentional relationship.

What is My Approach?

My approach is intentionally integrative, which means I adapt therapy to you rather than fitting you into a single model. With individuals, I draw on mindfulness-based, psychoanalytic, emotion-focused, and somatic approaches, and I offer EMDR sessions for trauma. With couples, I pull from Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), Relational Life Therapy (RLT) and the Gottman Method.

What Is My Background?

I hold an MA in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and have advanced postgraduate training in somatic and trauma-informed care, EMDR, women’s mental health, and leading couples’ therapy methods.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent two decades as a corporate finance leader and founded two startups. That experience taught me a great deal about high-stakes decisions, pressure, and the complexity of human relationships, all of which inform my work in the therapy room.

At home, I enjoy adventurous walks with my dogs through the Santa Ynez Valley, along with yoga, Pilates, and the mindfulness practice of gardening.

Additional Profiles: Psychology Today