Breathe.
Leave the chaos behind.
online sessions everywhere in California | in-person sessions available in Berkeley
Adults
Therapy for deep feelers and people pleasers
Do you feel overwhelmed by emotions or paralyzed by decisions? Do you constantly worry about the needs of others but have a hard time recognizing and advocating for your own? Do you feel exhausted and depleted by life?
It might seem impossible to imagine feeling a sense of calm and contentment in a world that’s too much, but there is hope! In therapy, you can reconnect with your own needs and desires, regain your sense of self, and, with practice, learn how to find and come back to a sense of calm and ease.
We will use compassionate curiosity and some body-based techniques to learn more about what you’ve been needing. You will learn new techniques to help you support your inner world while also setting compassionate, relationship-affirming boundaries with others.
Teens and Adolescents
Strengths-based therapy for your teen or tween
Is your teen struggling with a transition, like starting middle school or high school? Do they feel insecure or lack confidence? Are they feeling overwhelmed by academic or extracurricular demands? Are you feeling unsure of how to help support them as they start to push you away?
From meeting academic expectations to fulfilling extracurricular responsibilities, from navigating the social scene at school to surviving the one online, teens are under a lot of stress even under the best of circumstances. (Often, life doesn’t grant the best of circumstances.) And—let’s be honest—your job of raising them isn’t exactly a walk in the park.
Therapy can help continue the wonderful work you started with your child years ago, by nurturing and helping them come into their own in a confusing, hormone-riddled, scholastically-demanding time. (With an adult that they don’t feel the biological imperative to push away from. Which is normal, by the way. You’re doing just fine!)
Therapy for partners and family members
Couples
Do you love each other but feel like you’re speaking different languages? Do you wish your partner really understood what you were saying—and maybe what you’re not actually saying, too? Do you crave safe, emotional intimacy in your partnership?
A lot can come up when the people we love miss us. You both deserve to be seen, understood, and valued by one another, and therapy can help you safely explore and repair whatever’s getting in your way.
In therapy you will practice skills like deep listening and reflection, communicating your needs and boundaries, and keeping yourself grounded and regulated even when things feel tense. Couples therapy requires not just participation, but collaboration, compassion, and curiosity from both of you.
I’m a software product manager turned therapist who loves working with people who feel things really deeply. You are coming to therapy because something just isn’t working for you anymore and you’re not feeling your best. I bring a sense of coziness to therapy that will put you at ease while embodying a more direct therapeutic style. I will both gently challenge you and partner with you on your journey—wherever it takes you.
I am a trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ affirming, and neurodivergent affirming therapist.
I see clients both in-person in Berkeley and online from anywhere in California.