I work with clients navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, grief, stress, life transitions, and long‑standing emotional patterns that feel difficult to untangle alone.
Often, what brings someone to therapy isn’t just the immediate problem—it’s the deeper pattern underneath it. My work helps you understand those patterns, find relief, and move toward meaningful change in a grounded, supportive way.
Specialties
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ADHD isn’t a flaw — it’s a different way of processing the world. Many adults with late‑identified ADHD have spent years masking, overworking, or feeling “too much” or “not enough.” I know this path intimately. As a therapist who also lives with ADHD, I understand the creativity, sensitivity, intuition, and resilience that often come with it, alongside the challenges of focus, organization, and follow‑through.
In my work, I help clients honor their neurodivergent strengths while building supportive structures for the parts of life that feel harder. Together, we explore how your brain works, what energizes you, and how to create routines that feel natural rather than forced. My goal is to help you move from shame to self‑trust — and to see your ADHD not as a deficit, but as a meaningful part of who you are.
Sometimes ADHD is overlooked because people have learned to mask it, overcompensate, or push through while silently struggling underneath. This is especially common for adults who are high-functioning professionally while privately feeling overwhelmed, scattered, exhausted, or stuck in cycles of shame and self-criticism.
Therapy can help you better understand how your mind works, reduce self-blame, and develop more supportive ways of working with yourself rather than constantly feeling at odds with your own brain.
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Anxiety can feel like living with a constant undercurrent of worry, pressure, restlessness, or overwhelm. It can affect your thoughts, your body, your sleep, your relationships, and your ability to feel present in your own life.
Sometimes anxiety is tied to current stress. Sometimes it is connected to deeper experiences that have taught your system to stay on alert.
Therapy can help you understand what is driving that anxiety, develop more support around it, and begin relating to yourself with greater clarity and calm.
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You may notice yourself overgiving, people-pleasing, taking responsibility for others, losing yourself in relationships, or repeating patterns that leave you feeling frustrated and depleted.
These patterns often begin as ways of adapting, protecting yourself, or maintaining connection. Over time, they can become painful and hard to break.
Therapy can help you understand where these patterns come from, what they have been trying to do for you, and how to begin shifting them with more awareness and choice.
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Depression can make everything feel heavier. You may feel tired, disconnected, unmotivated, numb, hopeless, or unlike yourself. Even simple things can begin to feel hard.
At times, depression can also be tied to unresolved grief, trauma, inner criticism, or emotional pain that has gone unspoken for too long.
Therapy offers a place to slow down, feel less alone, and begin understanding what may be contributing to that sense of heaviness so healing can begin from a deeper place.
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Grief does not only follow death. It can also come through endings, disappointments, changes in identity, relationship loss, or the realization that something important is no longer what it once was.
Grief can feel disorienting, lonely, and difficult to explain to others.
Therapy can provide space to process loss at your own pace, make room for what you are carrying, and move through grief with support rather than isolation.
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Even wanted change can feel destabilizing.
A shift in relationship, work, family, identity, health, or stage of life can stir up uncertainty, grief, fear, or old patterns that suddenly feel close to the surface. During transitions, people often find themselves asking deeper questions about who they are, what they want, and what needs to change.
Therapy can offer support and grounding during these periods, helping you move through change with more clarity and care.
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Psychedelic experiences can open up powerful emotions, memories, insights, or questions that continue long after the experience itself.
Integration work offers a space to process what came up, make meaning of the experience, and find grounded ways to bring those insights into your daily life.
I offer therapeutic support before or after a psychedelic experience. This is not facilitation of a psychedelic session itself, but rather support around preparation, reflection, and integration.
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Relationship struggles can bring up some of our deepest pain. You may find yourself repeating the same patterns, feeling misunderstood, struggling to trust, overextending yourself, shutting down, or ending up in dynamics that leave you hurt.
These patterns often have roots that run deeper than the current situation.
Therapy can help you better understand how you relate, what keeps repeating, and what it might look like to create relationships that feel healthier, clearer, and more supportive.
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Sexual trauma can leave lasting effects on the body, emotions, sense of safety, relationships, and self-worth. It can shape how you move through intimacy, trust, boundaries, and daily life in ways that may not always be easy to explain.
Healing from sexual trauma takes care, steadiness, and support.
Therapy can offer a place to process what happened at a pace that feels manageable, while helping you reconnect with your voice, your boundaries, and your sense of self.
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For some clients, healing includes not only emotional and relational work, but also deeper questions of meaning, identity, life’s purpose spirituality, and inner life.
My work is informed by transpersonal psychology, which makes room for the emotional, psychological, spiritual, and creative dimensions of healing.
This can be especially supportive for clients who want therapy that honors both practical change and deeper self-understanding.
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Sometimes life starts to feel like too much all at once. You may be juggling responsibilities, pushing yourself to keep going, or feeling like there is never enough space to actually catch up or settle down.
When stress builds over time, it can affect your mood, your body, your patience, your focus, and your sense of connection to yourself.
Therapy can help you slow the pace, understand what is contributing to the overwhelm, and begin finding a steadier way forward.
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Trauma can affect the way you relate to yourself, other people, and the world around you. Sometimes it shows up in obvious ways. Other times it appears through anxiety, numbness, shame, hypervigilance, relationship struggles, emotional reactivity, or repeated patterns that are hard to change.
Complex trauma often develops over time through painful or overwhelming experiences that shape how safe, connected, or settled you feel in your own life.
Therapy can help you better understand how trauma may still be affecting you, while creating space for healing, insight, and greater internal steadiness.
You do not have to work through this alone
Whether you are struggling with trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship pain, grief, or a pattern you are ready to understand more deeply, therapy can offer a place to begin.
Request A Consultation
Reaching out for support can feel vulnerable. My hope is to make that first step feel as clear and comfortable as possible.
If you would like to schedule a consultation or ask a question about working together, you’re welcome to reach out by phone, email, or through the contact form.
What to expect
I offer a free 15-minute consultation by phone or video for new clients.
This is a chance for you to briefly share what’s bringing you in, ask any questions you may have, and get a sense of whether working together feels like the right fit.
I know how difficult it can be to reach out and not hear back. Because of that, I make it a priority to respond with care and clarity.
Contact Details
Phone: (650) 525-2252
Location: Burlingame, California
Availability: Virtual therapy throughout California, with in-person sessions available in Burlingame
Phone or video consultations available.