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Healing is an intimate journey towards ever greater wholeness (acceptance, compassion, and integration of all parts of ourselves). I value the sacred opportunity to join alongside you. Therapy is a unique endeavor; one in which you the client and me as therapist, collaborate to create a space for the unburdening of life’s stressors, pain, grief, sorrow, and confusion as well as space to seek answers to existential questions about what gives life meaning. I am passionate about this process as a result of my own mental health journey.

​I spent nearly 20 years as a public-school teacher and I’ve traveled the world over searching for meaning and self-discovery; deep in the jungles of Peru, into the Himalayan Mountains and Ganges River of India, to the Buddhist temples of Japan, and the gothic churches along the Camino de Santiago of Spain. But in 2012 I stumbled upon a recorded lecture by Ram Dass, former Harvard psychologist turned yogi, which catalyzed my personal journey (an expansive excavation of my own psyche and a mid-life career refresh)! As I turned my attention to this inner journey, I found caverns of unresolved grief, attachment wounds, shame, and internalized oppression from a culture bound to status and status symbols… AND I found healing through the therapeutic process and relationship.

I hold a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington and have training in somatic-based trauma therapy, transpersonal and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. I am passionate about many types of therapy, including Transpersonal, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Hakomi, Buddhist Psychology, Polyvagal Theory, and Attachment Theory – all of which I view through the lens of importance of the therapeutic alliance. I have mentorship and supervision from a Buddhist Psychology supervisor, a Somatic-Relational mentor and currently with an Anti-Oppression/Liberation Theory supervisor. In short, there are multiple routes on the therapeutic journey, and I am humbled to be present for your process.