The Therapeutic Space
It’s a space to turn inward, explore with awareness, look with curiosity.
It’s a space to listen to the body’s voice and learn to tenderly respond.
It’s a space to notice your longings, your dreams, your desires.
It’s a space to be with grief and courage, fear and hope, rage and possibility.
It’s a space to let yourself be witnessed by a loving and attuned guide.
It’s a space to reach a hand back toward your younger selves and look forward at who you imagine becoming.
It’s a space to connect to your heart, your soul, your truest essence.
It’s a space to undo aloneness and remember belonging.
It’s a space to try on new ways of being, new ways of seeing.
It’s a space to get to know all parts of you, to embrace all parts of you, to befriend all parts of you.
It’s a space to meet yourself with the gaze of unconditional care.
It’s a space to experiment, to receive, to shed, to embrace.
It’s a space to notice what your cells whisper, what your body knows, what your breath offers.
It’s a space to laugh, to shake, to sob, to pray.
It’s a space to imagine.
It’s a space to release, to invite in, to shed, to welcome.
It’s a space to rest, to soften, to be.
It’s a space to bring all of you, no part turned away.
It’s a space to practice. It’s a space to love.
It’s a space to hope, to wonder, to begin again.
Psychotherapy is a portal. A doorway. An opening.
My therapeutic practice is depthful and infused with warmth, nurturance, and love. Rooted in integrative, relational, and humanistic psychotherapy, our work together will weave in somatics, feminist theory, mindfulness practice, intuitive wisdom, and guidance from the natural world. Together, we will walk a path toward remembering who you are at the core, meeting and tending to both the ache and beauty of being human, trusting your own knowing, finding home in the body, building more depthful relationships with self, others, and the earth, feeding your creativity, nourishing your longings, and practicing embodied presence. This work is in service of cultivating more aliveness, connection, courage, and joy in daily life.
My orientation toward psychotherapy is not traditional but is instead creative, disruptive of power differentials, intimate in nature, and infused with humanity. It is depathologizing and utterly human. It is both art and science, both ritual and daily practice. I believe deeply in the inherent inner intelligence within each of us and imagine therapy as a mirror, slowly revealing what’s always been there and what wants to find deeper roots. My approach is gentle and kind, lovingly honest and rooted to the ground.
My Practice:
In session, I’ve been known to read poetry, pull archetype cards, explore spirituality, talk about the role systems of oppression play in our lives, encourage lighting a candle, and turn toward nature as a wisdom keeper. The body comes along in everything we do together. I see myself as a fellow traveler*, not above you but on a journey alongside you, guiding you toward your own wisdom and inner knowing.
*Thank you to psychotherapist Irvin Yalom for the language of a fellow traveler
Who I work well with:
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California
Licensure
Creatives. Parents. New therapists. Adoptees. Introverts. People grieving. People in transition. People struggling with depression, anxiety, or overwhelm. People unfurling. People yearning for belonging. People longing for more presence, more compassion, more embodied acceptance. People hoping to deepen their self-expression. People wanting support with psychedelic integration. People swimming in existential waters. People seeking to find home within themselves.
Education
BA in Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
MS in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, Dominican University of California
Modalities I draw from
Humanistic psychotherapy, feminist therapy, ecopsychology, narrative therapy, Buddhist psychology, existential therapy, AEDP, Internal Family Systems, somatics
Education, training, & learning that informs my work:
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California
CIIS Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research certificate*
Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy*
Internal Family Systems six month Inner Circle training
Strozzi Institute Embodied Transformation program
Brainspotting phase one
Radical Compassion daylong, Tara Brach at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Polaris Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy module one
Polaris KAP Integration module
Mindful Self-Compassion eight week training
Introduction to AEDP
Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing
LEAD with Chela Davison
*denotes currently in progress or enrolled for 2025
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California
CIIS Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research certificate*
Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy*
Internal Family Systems six month Inner Circle training
Strozzi Institute Embodied Transformation program
Brainspotting phase one
Radical Compassion daylong, Tara Brach at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Polaris Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy module one
Polaris KAP Integration module
Mindful Self-Compassion eight week training
Introduction to AEDP
Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing
LEAD with Chela Davison
*denotes currently in progress or enrolled for 2025
