Many people arrive in therapy carrying anxiety, emotional overwhelm, grief, relationship conflict, or patterns that no longer feel sustainable. You may understand these patterns intellectually while still feeling caught in cycles of people pleasing, over-functioning, emotional disconnection, shame, or attachment wounds that continue to shape how you relate to yourself and others. Therapy can become a space where these experiences are not only understood, but worked with directly so something new becomes possible.
I offer individual and couples therapy for adults who want to not only understand their patterns, but shift how those patterns are lived, felt, and experienced. My approach integrates trauma-informed, relational, somatic, depth-oriented, and parts-based work. Together, we track how personal, relational, and inherited experiences shape your inner world, your relationships, and the ways these patterns live in the body.
Sessions are available online and in person in Berkeley and Petaluma, California.
Areas I Commonly Support
Anxiety and emotional overwhelm
Attachment trauma and relational wounds
Relationship conflict and communication struggles
Codependency and over-functioning patterns
Childhood trauma and family-of-origin dynamics
Shame and self-abandonment
People pleasing and difficulty setting boundaries
Burnout and chronic emotional caretaking
Emotional disconnection and numbness
Grief and life transitions
Recovery dynamics and relational healing
Couples navigating recurring conflict, disconnection, attachment wounds, and the longing for deeper intimacy, vitality, and authentic connection
How I Work
In our work together, we don’t only talk about your experience, we work directly with it as it unfolds.
We make space to notice what is happening in the moment: in your body, your emotions, your thoughts, your impulses, and in the space between us.
From there, we begin to recognize patterns as they take shape rather than only reflecting on them afterward, creating the possibility for new experiences, responses, and ways of relating.
My approach is guided by several interconnected areas:
Trauma-informed care: We regulate pace and intensity so the work remains supportive rather than overwhelming, while recognizing how past and intergenerational experiences may continue to shape the present.
Parts work : We build awareness of the different parts of you that emerge in moments of activation, protection, vulnerability, or conflict, including inner child work.
Depth work : We follow emotions, images, and meaning as they arise rather than forcing interpretation or immediate resolution.
Somatic awareness : We track sensation, activation, and nervous system responses as they unfold in real time.
Relational work : We explore what unfolds between us as part of the therapeutic process itself.
Expressive approaches : We use imagery, drawing, and creative process to access what may not yet be available through words alone.
Recovery work : This work may support those navigating addiction, codependency, compulsive relational patterns, or the long-term impact of growing up around emotional unpredictability, chronic instability, or substance use dynamics.
Together, We Can
Begin to notice patterns as they take shape rather than only after the fact
Stay with your experience long enough for something new to take form
Move through the space between insight and embodied change
Give expression to experiences that have been difficult to access or put into words
Support shifts that are felt in the body and relationships, not only understood cognitively
Loosen patterns carried across time, relationships, and generations
This is where change becomes possible — not through insight alone, but through new experience.
Therapy Services
Individual Therapy
We focus on your inner world as it unfolds in real time: tracking patterns, working with parts, and supporting shifts that become felt, integrated, and lived.
Couples Therapy
You may find yourselves repeating the same conflict despite care, insight, or genuine efforts to connect.
Together, we slow down these relational patterns as they unfold: tracking reactivity, withdrawal, people pleasing, over-functioning, shutdown, attachment activation, and the emotional meanings beneath conflict.
Often beneath recurring conflict are deeper longings for closeness, recognition, intimacy, desire, safety, vitality, and authentic connection.
The work is not about assigning blame, but creating more awareness, repair, honesty, and connection within the relationship — while helping couples reconnect with the parts of themselves and one another that have become difficult to reach.
What You Can Expect
An actively engaged therapeutic process that attends not only to your words, but to what is happening beneath and alongside them
Work that moves at a pace supportive of both depth and nervous system regulation
Attention to what is unfolding emotionally, relationally, and somatically in the present moment
Multiple pathways into the work : verbal, relational, somatic, and expressive, depending on what feels most accessible and alive
Opportunities for change through direct experience, not insight alone
I offer in-person sessions in Berkeley and Petaluma, with online therapy available throughout California.
Gentle Invitation
Therapy can become a place where longstanding patterns are not only understood, but experienced and worked with in new ways.
If you feel drawn to this kind of work, I invite you to reach out.