My work is rooted in awe for the way a seed becomes a flower and all life seeks to become that which it was meant to be.

Over the last 20 years, I have worked as a licensed psychotherapist in my private practice in Oakland, California. My experiential and relational approach weaves together psychodynamic and somatic practices, Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, mindfulness, neuroscience, CBT, nature connection, systems thinking, indigenous and evolutionary perspectives, and engaging the deep imagination.

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My Style

My style is warm, interactive, playful, intuitive, challenging, and experiential. Through encouraging your inner resources and strengths, I will gently invite you to step out of your familiar comfort zone and into new experiences that will expand your sense of who you are and what is possible for you.

If You Could Heal Alone, You Would Have Done It Already

​Research has repeatedly shown that the relationship between client and therapist is the single most vital healing factor in psychotherapy. That said, I seek to create with you a trusting, authentic, respectful, attuned, responsive, and collaborative relationship.

You are unique and unprecedented. Your growing self intimacy becomes a tremendous inner resource that fuels and guides all aspects of your life.

What I Do, and What I Don’t Do

Using deep, multi-dimensional listening, empathy and imagination, I connect with you, and I support your connection with yourself.

I meet you where you are and I partner with the creative intelligence within you that seeks to heal, grow, and evolve towards greater vitality, connection and expression.

With a curious and open mind, I seek to see and speak the truth. I welcome multiple perspectives and facilitate communication, intimacy, and mutual empathy. I practice and teach emotional intelligence. I accompany clients into darkness to befriend dragons and retrieve hidden treasures.

I am an experienced guide, but I don’t pretend to know it all. I can accompany you and invite you into new experiences, but I can’t do the work for you. I can’t promise that change will be easy or painless.

The work of transformation will require the courage and strength to let go of what’s not working and try new things, again and again. While this can be unsettling, it can also be profoundly enlivening and rewarding.