Therapy for the parts of life that don't have simple answers.
Maybe you know exactly why you're here. Or maybe you just know something isn't working anymore. A relationship feels harder than it should. You're exhausted from holding everything together. Motherhood changed you in ways you weren't prepared for. Old family patterns keep showing up in new places.
You understand yourself intellectually, but somehow that understanding hasn't changed how you feel. Or the life you've built looks perfectly fine from the outside—and doesn't feel particularly fine from inside it.
Therapy can be a place to get curious about all of it.
I provide individual and couples therapy for adults throughout California, with in-person therapy available in Orange County.
individual therapy
couples & relationship therapy
perinatal therapy
You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis.
Sometimes it begins with noticing:
I keep doing this.
Why does this affect me so much?
I don't recognize myself lately.
I thought I had dealt with this.
Why do I react this way with the people I love most?
I have everything I wanted. Why don't I feel better?
Those questions are often trailheads. Rather than simply trying to eliminate symptoms, my work is interested in understanding what they're communicating—and what might be happening underneath them.
How I Work
Curiosity first, always.
My approach to therapy is attachment-focused, trauma-informed, somatic, culturally responsive, relational, and strongly influenced by Internal Family Systems.
That means we're less interested in asking:
“How do we get rid of this part of you?”
and more interested in:
“Why might this part of you have needed to exist?”
Together we identify the expereinces and emotions that cause distress in your life. Whether it’s anxiety, perfectionism people pleasing, avoidance, over-functioning, shutting down, control or the relentless voice insisting you should be doing more.
These patterns often make considerably more sense when we understand what they're protecting.
Our work creates space to understand those patterns with curiosity rather than shame. Over time, we develop different ways of relating to yourself and the people around you.
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You contain multitudes. That's not the problem.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) begins with the idea that we all have different parts of ourselves.
A part that performs.
A part that worries.
A part that wants everyone to be happy.
A part that shuts down.
A part that is furious.
A part that wants to disappear.
A part that keeps achieving because stopping doesn't feel particularly safe.
These parts aren't evidence that something is wrong with you. They often developed for very good reasons.
IFS therapy helps us become curious about these internal patterns, understand the protective roles different parts have taken on, and create more space for Self—the grounded, compassionate, curious core from which we can relate differently to ourselves and others.
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Sometimes the pattern isn't the problem. It's the solution you learned a long time ago.
My individual therapy work often centers on:
Anxiety and overwhelm
Identity and major life transitions
Motherhood and maternal identity
Perinatal mental health
Adult ADHD and neurodivergence
Attachment and relationship patterns
Generational and family-of-origin patterns
Trauma and difficult life experiences
Perfectionism and over-functioning
Burnout
Grief and loss
Race, culture, and identity
Self-worth and shame
But therapy isn't a checklist of presenting problems.
We're interested in how these experiences intersect—and the story your particular nervous system learned about what it takes to stay safe, connected, valued, and loved.
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Couples rarely come to therapy because they don't know how to communicate. Usually, they're caught in a pattern. And eventually both people become convinced the other person is the problem.
My work with couples is informed by attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems, and Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO).
Rather than determining who is right, we work to understand the cycle happening between you—and what each person is protecting underneath it. I work with couples and relationship structures across identities, including LGBTQ+ couples, neurodiverse relationships, and consensually non-monogamous/polyamorous relationships.
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Becoming a mother can rearrange everything.
Pregnancy, birth, postpartum, infertility, loss, and early parenthood can touch nearly every part of a person's identity.
We witness change in our relationships, bodies, friendships, and families. Sex changes, work changes, even time feels different.
And sometimes the person everyone expects you to be after becoming a mother bears very little resemblance to the person you actually feel like.
As a Certified Perinatal Mental Health professional (PMH-C), I work with people navigating pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, perinatal anxiety and depression, birth-related trauma, infertility and trying to conceive, relationship changes after becoming parents, and maternal identity.
There is room here for the beautiful parts and the parts you're scared to say out loud.
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Some of what we carry started long before us.
Families are the first community we belong to. We learn what success means, who gets to have needs, how conflict works, what love looks like, what we're responsible for, and what happens when we disappoint people.
Culture, immigration, race, religion, gender, family roles, and generational experiences can all shape these messages.
Therapy can help us understand what we've inherited without requiring us to reject where we came from.
Sometimes healing isn't about abandoning the family story.
It's about deciding which parts of it you want to keep writing.
Therapy That Makes Room for Context
You do not exist outside your culture, relationships, identities, community, history, or the systems around you.
Neither does therapy.
My approach is culturally responsive and affirming of diverse identities and relationship structures. I believe good therapy requires curiosity about both the internal world and the context in which that world developed. Duality is a part of all of our lives, in and out of the therapy room. Human beings rarely fit neatly inside one framework. Here, we can talk about attachment and racism, parts and motherhood, trauma and culture. relationships and gender, anxiety and capitalism, family loyalty and boundaries, individual healing and systemic realities. We do not exist in silos, and therapy shouldn't require us to.
Working Together
I provide therapy to adults and couples in California.
In-person: Orange County, California
Virtual: Available throughout California
Sessions are designed for people looking for depth-oriented, relational therapy rather than quick symptom management alone.
If you're curious about whether working together might be a fit, the first step is an inquiry.
You don't need to tell your whole story in a contact form.
Just start there.