I’ve always been drawn to moments of transition.

Across different communities, cultures, and professional settings, one thing has remained constant: people long to be understood.

My path to the therapy room has been anything but linear. I’ve worked across global organizations, from healthcare to aerospace, and alongside community initiatives in rural Nepal. I’ve traveled widely, lived between cultures, and often found myself questioning the ways we’re told life is supposed to be lived. These experiences taught me to pay attention, not only to who we are individually, but to the families, cultures, histories, relationships, and systems that shape us.

Today, I bring that curiosity into my work as a therapist.

I’m also someone who believes deeply in laughter. I’m straightforward in my language and don’t believe honesty has to come at the expense of compassion. I will be direct when it matters, while staying curious about what is underneath and making room for complexity. Life can be extraordinarily hard, and I don’t think healing requires us to be serious every minute of it. Humor, joy, friendship, nature, movement, and connection have their own place in how we survive and how we come alive again.

I care passionately about people and the world we are creating together. I’ve never been particularly interested in following the mainstream simply because it’s the mainstream. I’m interested in asking why things are the way they are, who gets left out, and whether we can imagine something better. For me, seeking justice isn’t separate from being a therapist; it comes from the same place: believing people deserve lives in which they can more fully exist.

My hope is to create a space where you feel genuinely seen, complexity is welcomed, difficult conversations are possible, and laughter isn’t out of place.

I don’t have all the answers. I don’t believe any therapist does. But I do believe we can stay curious together.

M.A., Counseling Psychology — Pacifica Graduate Institute
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist — California
EMDR — Sonoma Psychotherapy Training Institute, In Progress