Where It Began

Before I had a fully formed sense of self, I was already learning to offer my image for evaluation — to walk into a room and feel my worth calibrated by a glance, a casting decision, a photograph. I moved through graduate training, the SF tech world, and the fashion industry still reading the room, performing competence, waiting to feel like I had finally arrived somewhere that fit.

It took a series of significant losses to break the trance. Grief has a way of making the question unavoidable: what did I actually want — and who was I beneath the roles I had outgrown without noticing? Two places held that reckoning. In my own psychotherapy, I lived the unraveling and the slow re-weaving that real change requires. In my doctoral research, I studied the development of the very women I now sit across from in my practice.

When competence becomes identity, rest feels undeserved. When attunement becomes survival, your own desire becomes difficult to locate.

My work is guiding women back to themselves — to a life that extends from their own desires rather than their assignments. The liminal, in-between phases don't have to be destabilizing. With the right support, they become the doorway: the difference between staying stuck in a life that looks right and building one that feels true.

My Approach

In session, I am warm, present, and exploratory. I follow your lead, and I also name what I notice — not only what you say, but what happens as you say it. The shift in breath before a difficult word. The moment feeling gives way to explanation. The thing that almost came forward, and didn't. Most people have rarely been attended to this closely, and it can be unexpectedly relieving to no longer navigate those moments alone.

I think of psychotherapy the way an art conservator thinks about a painting stored in the wrong conditions for too long. The work is not adding something new — it is restoring the conditions under which what was always there can emerge, clearly and safely.

Integrating psychodynamic, relational, and body-based (somatic) approaches, we build not only insight but the capacity to live differently. We move at a pace that is sustainable, while staying attentive to what is tangibly changing in your daily life. The goal is transformation that holds long after therapy ends.

Working Together

Women leave this work somewhere that feels like coming home to themselves — more at ease in their bodies, more trusting of their own knowing. The internal pressure softens. Clarity emerges about what they actually want. Ambition doesn't disappear; it changes quality. It starts to feel like theirs. And underneath it, something steadier: a sense of worth that doesn't need the next achievement to hold it in place.

Usually, a quiet part of you already knows this is possible. That's the part that brought you here.

If any of this feels familiar, I'd love to speak with you. Resonance is enough to begin.