Individual Therapy
This is a place where you don’t have to perform.
You don’t have to hold it together.
You don’t have to collapse either.
Maybe you are high-functioning and quietly exhausted.
Maybe you are unraveling.
Maybe something happened that shook your sense of who you are.
Maybe nothing dramatic happened - and yet you feel alone, unseen, or strangely disconnected from your own life.
I work with adults navigating:
Identity shifts and life transitions
Nervous system overwhelm
Relationship wounds and relational confusion
Motherhood and caregiver fatigue
Immigration, cultural displacement, and third-culture complexity
Separation, betrayal, or subtle patterns of coercion
Late-diagnosed ADHD
Psychedelic or other extreme experiences that need grounding and integration
Our work is relational. Present-focused. Attuned to your nervous system.
We will move at a pace that’s comfortable for you.
You do not need a dramatic story to deserve care.
If something in you knows, “this isn’t working anymore,” that is enough.
Trauma-informed therapy for adults in California across the ages, particularly young adults, women, and bicultural people.
Women & Mothers
You are the one who holds everything.
The schedule. The feelings. The invisible labor. The tone of the house. The temperature of everyone’s nervous system. And somewhere along the way, you disappeared.
You may love your children and still feel lonely.
You may be partnered and still feel emotionally alone.
You may look “fine” from the outside and feel quietly resentful, numb, or depleted inside.
This is space for you - not as a role, not as a function, not as the steady one - but as a whole person.
We will gently untangle:
Caretaking that has become self-erasure
Guilt that keeps you over-functioning
The pressure to be good, calm, accommodating
The grief of who you used to be
The woman you are still becoming
You deserve support that does not require you to collapse first.
Immigrants & 3rd Culture
You learned to translate yourself early.
Between languages.
Between cultures.
Between expectations.
Maybe you carry pride and grief in the same breath.
Maybe you feel at home nowhere - or everywhere.
Maybe you are tired of explaining your family, your history, your complexity.
Immigration and third-culture life can create:
A fragmented sense of identity
Hyper-independence
Loyalty binds across continents
Guilt for leaving or for staying
The pressure to succeed
Here, with me, you do not need to simplify your story.
We can hold multiple cultural truths at once.
Belonging does not require erasing parts of yourself.
Power & Control in Relationships
Nothing “big” happened.
And yet you don’t trust yourself anymore.
Maybe the harm was subtle.
A slow erosion of confidence.
Being corrected, minimized, dismissed.
A relationship where power was never loud - but always present.
You might question your memory.
You might feel responsible for everything.
You might still be defending the person who hurt you.
This is often how coercive dynamics work.
Especially in systems shaped by patriarchy and rigid gender roles - where control can hide behind charm, logic, or “reasonableness.”
In our work, we will:
Rebuild trust in your perception
Gently examine power dynamics without shaming you
Support nervous system repair from chronic relational stress
You are not “too sensitive.” You are not “too emotional”. You are human.
When harm is invisible, the healing must be careful and steady.
Psychedelics & Expansive States
Relevant Training & Research
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Adherence Rater, clinical trials of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, Lykos Therapeutics (formerly MAPS Public Benefit Corporation) (2023 - present/as needed). Review therapy session videos and conduct adherence ratings according to A Manual for Adherence Ratings of MDMA-
Assisted Therapy for Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, identify any potential major therapy adherence
deviations and report on areas of concern and strength of the therapists.
Doctoral Dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies (2008 -2012). The Healing Power of Dance: A Phenomenological Study of “Being Moved” Facilitated by the Use of Entheogens.
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Co-Founder, Big Picture Wellness, Co-Founder / Licensed Psychologist (2017 - 2020). Psychotherapy and Consultation as part of coordinated team holding expertise in extreme states, psychiatric crises, spiritual emergencies, peer support, wellness and recovery support services.
Psychologist (Independent Contractor), Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis (PREP), San Francisco (2016 - 2017). Conducted diagnostic assessments and advised on assessment of psychosis and differentials.
Staff Clinician PREP, East Bay Community Recovery Project, Oakland (2013 - 2014). Individual, group, family psychotherapy, and diagnostic assessments for community based treatment program serving transitional aged youth (16 – 24 years old) demonstrating early psychosis.
Research Assistant, UCLA Department of Psychology (1999 - 2000)
Animal Models of Psychosis: Comparing Regular Amphetamines with Hallucinatory Amphetamines in terms of Behavior and Degeneration in Brain. (Sponsoring Professor: Gaylord Ellison, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience)
Something opened. Now you're trying to make sense of what emerged.
Expansive experiences can bring profound insight - and they can also be disorienting, destabilizing, or difficult to integrate alone.
When expansive states are sought, we lay the groundwork for a safe, informed, and supportive environment to help you on your journey towards personal growth and healing. For all expansive states, intended or unexpected, integration therapy offers a relational container to:
Process and make meaning of what arose
Ground insights in your daily life and relationships
Work with material that surfaced - grief, trauma, clarity, identity
Navigate spiritual openings or difficult experiences
I bring both professional training and personal understanding to this work. You don't need to explain or justify the experience - just bring it.
