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 wasn't until a series of significant personal losses that something shifted — and I had to confront the question of what I actually wanted, who I actually was beneath roles that no longer felt like a fit. My own psychotherapy work as well as my doctoral research that studied the development of the very type of women I see in my clinical practice, became the places where that changed.

When competence becomes identity, rest feels undeserved. When attunement becomes survival, your own desire becomes difficult to locate. One of the most fulfilling parts of my work supporting other women is to guide them back to themselves, to a life that extends from their heart’s desires and drives. It has been my experience that liminal, in-between phases of life don’t have to be destabilizing, and that meaningful support is the key difference between staying stuck or transforming into a life you actually want.

My Approach

In session, I am warm, present, and exploratory. I follow your lead, and I also name what I notice — the thing you almost said, the pattern that keeps appearing in different clothes. Clients often describe feeling genuinely seen in our work, and discovering shifts that prior insight, or even prior therapy, had not yet reached.

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 about adding something new, but restoring the conditions under which what was always there can finally emerge clearly and safely.

In practice, this looks like a particular quality of attention — one that follows 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. What almost came forward, and didn't. Most people have rarely experienced this level of attunement, and it can feel unexpectedly relieving to no longer navigate those moments alone.

Through the integration of psychodynamic, relational, and body-based approaches, we build not only insight, but the capacity to live differently. I work at a pace that feels 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 arrive somewhere that feels like coming home to themselves— more at ease in their bodies, more trusting in themselves to walk their path into their next stage. The quiet part of them that knows it is possible is what brings them here.

The internal pressure softens. Clarity emerges about what you actually want. Ambition doesn’t disappear, it changes quality. It starts to feel like yours. And underneath it, something steadier: a sense of your own worth that doesn’t need the next achievement to hold it in place.

If any of this has felt familiar or resonant, I’d love to speak with you. That's enough to begin.