With a background in entertainment, I bring a creative and intuitive lens to therapy—helping you reconnect with yourself, understand your inner world, and create meaningful change from the inside out. My style is warm, engaged, and real—I offer insight, empathy, and humor in a space where you don’t have to perform or get it “right.” Whether you’re feeling anxious, stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or just not like yourself, therapy with me is about helping you understand what is going on for you, why you feel the way you do, where it comes from—and what to do about it. Together, we’ll build tools to regulate emotions, communicate more effectively, and move through life with greater clarity and confidence. I work with teens, adults, and couples, and I often help clients explore how early roles and relationships shaped the way you show up today. Many of us learned to adapt in ways that once made sense—but no longer serve us. In our work, we gently untangle those patterns so you can respond to life, rather than react from old wounds. I integrate insight-oriented work with practical tools, and I believe the therapy relationship itself is a powerful place for healing and change. You’ll have space to be honest, to be challenged, and to grow. If you’re ready to feel more connected—to yourself, your relationships, and your life—I’d love to support you.

I value the uniqueness of each individual client and provide support and compassion to encourage clients to feel safe in expressing their current thoughts and feelings. I listen empathetically, affirming each client’s sense of worth and value, and at the same time, I gently encourage them to expand their comfort zone by asking questions and empowering them to take small steps towards their realized goals. A big of part of my work revolves around acknowledging my client’s vulnerable emotions. I will help you to develop a vocabulary to describe some of these emotions, including any anxieties, worries, and fears. Many of these feelings and thought patterns may stem from childhood. I use a psychodynamic and attachment-based approach to therapy which means I believe that our behaviors, feelings, relationships, and emotions are related to our early experiences. I also incorporate other evidence-based practices and modalities such as motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, and problem solving therapy to address some of the current issues affecting each client. ‍ From our work together, you can expect to develop a greater understanding of yourself in relationships with others, including family, friends, romantic partners, and coworkers. This will in turn develop into the ability to advocate for yourself in personal relationships and acquire tools for building connections with healthy boundaries. I am excited to be part of your journey of self-exploration and personal growth, and can’t wait to work with you on your life goals and aspirations!

My approach to therapy is compassionate, collaborative, and grounded in the belief that you already carry strengths, wisdom, and resilience that can become part of your healing. I create a non-judgmental space where you can feel safe being honest about what you are experiencing. Together, we will work to understand the patterns, experiences, and challenges that may be contributing to your current distress while identifying practical tools and strengths you can use to create meaningful change. I have more than 20 years of experience in health and wellness, including work as an athletic trainer, life and relationship coach, and marriage and family therapist. Throughout my career, I have worked with individuals, couples, families, and groups navigating trauma, posttraumatic stress (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress (CPTSD), anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, life transitions, substance use, re-entry, and other complex challenges. As a Native American therapist with a diverse background and broad life experience, I understand that each person's story, culture, relationships, and circumstances shape the way they experience the world. I meet you where you are and tailor our work to your needs rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach. My goal is not simply to reduce symptoms, but to help you develop greater self-compassion, reconnect with your strengths, heal from what you've experienced, and move toward the life and relationships you want to create. You don't have to navigate that process alone.

Are you feeling frustrated, stuck and distant from your partner? Do you and your partner have frequent arguments that don't ever get resolved? Are you tired of walking on eggshells at home? Relationships can be challenging, especially if it's been tense for awhile. I help couples move from conflict to connection by helping the rebuild trust, create emotional safety, and learn to communicate better. During our initial appointments we will explore the challenges in your relationship that are keeping you both stuck. We will develop a treatment plan which include assignments, in-session exercises, and evidence-based tools that fit your unique situation. Usually our clients are in therapy for about 12-24 sessions before completing treatment successfully. Reach out to schedule your free video or phone consultation today!

If infidelity, betrayal, or a relationship crisis has left you unsure what is true, what to do next, or whether your relationship can recover, you may feel pulled between urgency and overwhelm. One partner may be searching for answers while the other fears that more truth will cause more damage. Or you may be the partner who was unfaithful, carrying shame, fear of judgment, or confusion about how you got here and what accountability now requires. I specialize in structured, active therapy for individuals and couples navigating infidelity, betrayal of trust, unresolved disclosure, relationship crisis, and high-stakes decisions about the future of a relationship. My approach is especially suited for people who need more than open-ended support. I provide clinical guidance, clear structure, and attention to what needs to happen first. For couples in the acute aftermath of infidelity, the first task may be stabilization—reducing escalation, establishing needed boundaries, and helping each partner become steady enough to engage more safely and effectively in truth-restoration work. When secrecy, omissions, changing accounts, trickle truth, or unresolved questions prevent a stable shared reality from forming, I may guide couples through a structured Truth Restoration and full-disclosure process when clinically appropriate. I also have a particular specialization in supporting the partner who was unfaithful. This may include individual work before, during, and after disclosure; reducing minimization or partial truth; managing shame and defensiveness; understanding the impact on the hurt partner; and developing greater accountability. I work specifically with women who broke trust and may be struggling with significant shame, identity conflict, fear of judgment, or uncertainty about what happens next. Some couples come to me after they have already tried to address the betrayal—through repeated conversations, previous couples therapy, informal disclosure, or even a more formal disclosure process—but still do not feel that shared reality or meaningful repair fully took hold. Others are uncertain whether they want to remain together at all. My Marriage Clarity work integrates principles from my training in Discernment Counseling within a broader approach to relationship distress. Infidelity may be part of the story, but it does not have to be. I work with couples facing chronic disconnection, resentment, recurring conflict, loss of intimacy, longstanding hurt, betrayal, or uncertainty about whether the marriage should continue. Infidelity or relationship crisis is often the doorway into the work rather than the end of it. Once sufficient stability, truth, and accountability have been established, therapy can deepen into the individual wounds, attachment patterns, protective strategies, roles, resentment, boundaries, and ways of relating that shape each person and the relationship. This deeper work focuses on greater self-awareness and differentiation—understanding what belongs to you, what belongs to your partner, and what happens between you. Understanding these dynamics does not excuse betrayal or redistribute responsibility for it. The goal is change that reaches beyond ending an affair, stopping a behavior, or promising that it will not happen again. My style is compassionate, direct, active, and structured. I will support you without avoiding difficult realities, challenge you when needed, and help you focus on what matters most now while making room for the deeper work underneath it.

Are you overwhelmed? Does it feel like something is holding you back from achieving your goals? Are you struggling with persistent negative thoughts or self-doubt? Together we can work to help equip you with the necessary tools for you to face and overcome your challenges. Whether you're struggling with trauma and PTSD, intimacy issues, overcoming addiction, or grief, it is important that you know you don't have to be alone in this journey. I have the experience to help you achieve your goals, overcome these struggles, and live a more fulfilling and meaningful life. Through my somatic therapy training, I can teach you the capacity to heal from complex traumas, family historical behavioral patterns, sexual trauma or PTSD. By learning how your physical symptoms relate to your emotional experiences, from the fight or flight (neuro-sympathetic) nervous system, a person can heal not only emotionally but physically. Know you have taken an important first step. With warmth and empathy, I can help you overcome your struggles. I will provide a safe and nurturing space for you that allows you to express yourself free of judgement and find your true voice. Together, we can discover the inner peace and joy, we all seek.

My approach begins with a real conversation that builds on itself to create rapport and trust with the individual or couple so that we can feel comfortable while talking about difficult and challenging personal matters. I am curious to find out what specifically the person or couple came to therapy for? What are they curious about, wanting to explore or change or confront in themselves or their relationship? We then flesh this out, to get a fuller and more detailed picture of their issues. We formulate 1, 2 or 3 priorities to focus. My therapeutic approach involves a psycho-dynamic and emotion focused approach, that sets out to understand the source of the problem, how it developed and how it's being habitually maintained? From here we begin to develop creative strategies on how to address and interrupt these patterns and replace them with healthier ways of being? I am particularly interested in accessing the individual'scouple's habitual ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that reinforces the very problems and patterns that they want to change. This provides us with an experiential understanding and knowing of how they have come to be where they are. We are then much better equipped to address their emotional triggers and negative feedback loops (blaming communication-patterns). We work together to develop a deeper more vulnerable way for the individualcouple to talk and listen to one another, a more reliable and skillful means of relating from themselves to their loved ones. As the therapy progresses the individual or members of a couple learn to find their courage and trust in the process to confront 'old deep hurts and angers,' within themselves or their relationship, and learn how to more constructively navigate these troubled areas.

I believe therapy works best when you feel genuinely seen, heard, and accepted for who you are. As a therapist, I take a warm, collaborative, and strengths-based approach, working alongside you to better understand your experiences, build self-awareness, and create meaningful change. I draw from approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and relational therapy, while tailoring our work to your individual needs and goals. I aim to create a space where you can be honest, curious, and even a little messy as we work through whatever brings you to therapy. Whether you’re navigating a life transition, struggling with anxiety or self-esteem, processing grief or difficult experiences, or simply feeling stuck, I’m here to help you develop a deeper understanding of yourself and move toward a life that feels more authentic and fulfilling.

You may look like you are functioning well on the outside - successful, creative, accomplished - yet inside you feel tense, blocked, emotionally exhausted, or disconnected from yourself and others. Many of the people I work with are artists, performers, writers, entrepreneurs, and professionals who have learned to push through pain, self-doubt, and relational wounds without fully resolving them. At a certain point, pushing through is no longer enough - you want to feel like yourself again.

Sometimes we know something in our lives is not working, yet we cannot fully understand why. We repeat familiar patterns, feel haunted by old experiences, or find ourselves longing for something we cannot quite name. Psychoanalysis offers the space to safely uncover these layers of your inner world. Through a sustained therapeutic relationship, we will explore the experiences, relationships, dreams, conflicts and desires that have shaped you. Not to judge them, but to understand them. This is an intensive work, often meeting multiple times per week. Higher frequency provides the opportunity to delve into longstanding patterns and dynamics that may remain inaccessible in less intensive treatment. Through this process, many people find not only symptom relief, but greater freedom and a stronger sense of who they are. To quote Neville Symington, "Psychoanalysis is not for the person who has had a breakdown and just wants to start functioning again, because as the analysis proceeds he may have to revise his whole life and alter it radically. I think that psychoanalysis is for those who have a curiosity about life, but also wish to live it inwardly" (from The Psychoanalytic Experience). If you wish to learn more or begin treatment, I invite you to contact me. I am accepting Clients in Downtown Los Angeles and virtually throughout California.