I’m glad you’re here.
For twenty-five years, I’ve sat across from women who came carrying everything—career demands, family expectations, old wounds that won’t quite heal, and the quiet sense that somewhere along the way, they lost track of themselves.
Some walked in knowing exactly what needed to shift. Others just knew something had to change, even if they couldn’t name it yet.
I’m a psychologist with a Psy.D., dual-licensed as an LMFT and LPCC in California. I specialize in working with women and facilitating group therapy, which I’ve been doing for twenty-five years at Pepperdine University Graduate School of Clinical Psychology.
My work isn’t about fixing you or following a rigid protocol. It’s about creating space where you can finally breathe, think clearly, and remember what you actually want—not what everyone else needs from you.
What makes my work different
I see what many therapists miss
Unlike therapists who only work one-on-one, I’ve spent twenty-five years watching how people actually relate. I see patterns in individual sessions that most therapists miss—the moves you make with your partner, your boss, your parents—because I’ve watched these dynamics unfold in groups thousands of times.
You might come in talking about your anxiety. I’ll hear how you manage everyone’s emotions but your own. You might say you’re struggling with your marriage. I’ll notice how you apologize before asking for anything. That’s what two and a half decades of group therapy teaches you to see.
I train other therapists
I don’t just practice therapy. I teach it.
For eighteen years, I’ve trained master’s-level therapists at Pepperdine University.
Other therapists learn from me how to do this work. That means I’m constantly refining my approach, staying current, and explaining why techniques work, not just using them.
How we work together
When you sit down with me, you bring an entire mosaic: career wins, family roles, unspoken doubts, and old stories that still echo. Our task isn’t to trim those tiles into a tidy square. It’s to tilt the pieces until their pattern starts to make honest sense.
My therapeutic style is human-to-human. Insight matters, but healing happens in the moment of being heard with zero judgment. I’ll offer questions, reflections, and tailored tools—never a one-size-fits-all program. Your wisdom is already here. We’ll surface it together.
What sessions feel like:
- Conversation over scripts: One week, we’ll untangle a single knot; the next, we’ll zoom out for altitude
- Rhythm, not rushed: Breakthroughs are gold, but steady integration is where change takes root
- Flexible cadence: Most women start with weekly sessions, yet we can speed up, slow down, or pause entirely to fit the rhythm of your life
We work with what you’ve been carrying:
- The conversation you keep avoiding
- The decision you made that’s still haunting you
- The version of yourself you lost track of somewhere between what everyone needed and what you wanted
- The pattern you recognize but can’t seem to interrupt
- The letter you never opened, the grief you never named, the anger you learned to swallow
Common themes we explore:
- Relationships and attachment patterns
- Life transitions and evolving roles
- Grief, loss, or the “ambiguous grief” of dreams that didn’t land
- Parenting complexities—blended families, adult children, empty-nest stretches
- Work, ambition, and the permission to rest
- Anxiety, depression, or that vague sense of “never quite enough”
- Boundaries, people-pleasing, and conflict avoidance
- And if your concern isn’t listed, bring it. We’ll work on your theme together.
What you won’t get from me
- I won’t pathologize you or turn your life into a diagnosis
- I won’t need you to perform progress or hit arbitrary milestones
- I won’t treat you like a project to manage or a problem to solve
- I won’t rush vulnerability or force conversations you’re not ready for
- I won’t pretend that therapy follows a straight line when real change happens in spirals
What actually changes?
Twenty-five years of this work have shown me what transformation looks like when it’s real:
The executive who stopped managing her marriage like a work project and started showing up as herself
The mother who realized her exhaustion wasn’t about doing more, it was about permission to stop
The woman who finally said the thing she’d been carrying for years and discovered it didn’t destroy her
The people-pleaser who learned her anger was actually clarity wearing a disguise
The high achiever who discovered rest wasn’t a weakness; it was the thing that made everything else sustainable
These aren’t dramatic overnight shifts. They’re the accumulation of small choices, made in a space where someone finally sees you without needing you to be anything other than honest.
About the pace of change
Therapy isn’t a straight line. Some weeks feel like breakthroughs. Others feel like we’re circling the same spot. Both are part of the process.
I don’t rush you toward artificial milestones or force you to perform progress. We work at the pace real change happens, which is slower than Instagram would have you believe and faster than you think when you’re actually ready.
When the trail feels steep, I’ll hold hope until you can see the vista yourself.
This work fits you if…
- You want a therapist who sees patterns, names them clearly, and trusts you to decide what to do with that information work best with teams ready to move beyond scripts toward solution-focused approaches.
- You show up for everyone else but not for yourself
- You’re navigating a transition, and the old playbook doesn’t work anymore
- You need space to think without someone jumping in to fix or reassure
My promise
Therapy isn’t about steering you to a pre-set destination. It’s about creating an oxygenated space where truth can breathe and vulnerability muscles up into strength. I’ll bring full presence, clinical expertise, genuine care, and patience for the pace at which real transformation unfolds.
GETTING STARTED
Not sure where to start? That’s normal.
A brief consultation lets us identify what’s pressing and see if my style matches yours. If we decide to work together, we’ll map goals and revisit them as fresh insight surfaces.
My Practice fills quickly. If you’re ready to start, reach out soon. If I’m full, I can place you on the waitlist or connect you with a therapist who has openings.