As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 15-years of direct clinical experience, I believe in the potential that relationships offer for growth and healing. This includes relationships with others, relationship with ourselves, and the therapeutic relationship as well. My work is highly collaborative, which means that the therapy space will be mutually co-created and that each individual’s experience and wisdom will be honored. My approach is grounded in the principles of mindfulness and compassion, which cultivates an honest and warm container for building insight and making meaningful, enduring change.

I work with individual adults, couples, and families facing issues involving stress, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma (complex trauma, vicarious trauma, singular trauma, PTSD, developmental trauma), moral injury, relationship challenges, body image dissatisfaction, caregiver fatigue, work burnout, feeling stuck, life transitions, and strong inner-criticism/shame. I integrate several models of treatment including attachment-focused, body-based, and trauma-informed lenses. With a value for holistic wellbeing, I am interested in the intersection of the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, relational, cultural, and psychological realms.

As a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, I have the honor and privilege of holding space for those interested in improving their relationship with themselves. Self-compassion is most effectively learned while in connection with others and I am grateful to offer support and consultation for individuals and groups looking to increase their emotional resilience skillset through mindfulness and self-compassion practices.

I have specialized training in psychedelic-assisted therapy and have experience facilitating ketamine- and psilocybin-assisted therapy in controlled, clinical settings. I am passionate about creating a safe setting to explore and integrate the potential of expanded states of consciousness.

I am committed to constant growth, both personally and professionally, and integrate new and evidence-based modalities, research, and methods of treatment and healing.

Licenses, Education, and Training

I am currently licensed in:

California (LMFT 158775)

Illinois (IL 166.001028)

Florida (TPMF 347 - online only)

Education:

BA  - Women’s Studies - San Diego State University

MSMFT - Marriage and Family Therapy - The Family Institute at Northwestern University

Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research - California Institute of Integral Studies

Trainings:

100-hr MDMA-Assisted Therapy Certificate - Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

Mindful Self-Compassion Certified Teacher - UCSD Center for Mindfulness

Self-Compassion for Health Care Communities (SCHC) Certified Teacher- Center for Mindful Self-Compassion

Trauma Consultation Group and Individual Consultation - Womencare, Evanston, IL

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Training - Polaris Insight Center

Integrating Mindfulness into Psychotherapy with Dr. Daniel Siegel 

Reconciling Whiteness Course with Tamara Labek

Processing White Privilege and Addressing Racial Inequalities Course with Hayden Dawes, LCSW and April Harris Britt, PhD.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher Training - UCSD Center for Mindfulness

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) training - UCSD Center for Eating Disorder Treatment and Research

200 hour Yoga Teacher Training - Deep Yoga San Diego

Eat Breathe Thrive Yoga for Eating Disorders Training - Chelsea Roff

Prison Yoga Project Training - James Fox

Comprehensive Energy Psychology

Defender Victim Outreach (DVO) Training

Professional Affiliations:

Clinical Member - American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

Clinical Member - California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists