Honoring the full context of a person’s life — their relationships, culture, identity, and lived experiences — is central to how I practice. I tailor each session to the individual in real time, working collaboratively to help patients tap into self-knowledge and inherent strengths while offering guidance and practical tools to support deeper understanding.
Earlier in my career, a community-based setting brought me into the lives of young people navigating trauma, interpersonal and gender-based violence, major transitions, and systems-related stressors. That experience built a deep appreciation for how identity, culture, and environment shape mental health. It also taught me how much intention, consistency, and patience matter in earning the trust that helps people not only feel practically resourced but emotionally supported.
A subsequent role providing home-based counseling to children and families living with serious illness allowed me to support emotional expression, regulation, coping, and adjustment through play, creativity, and conversation. This time solidified my understanding of how early relationships and caregiving dynamics shape emotional life and identity development — and how the broader family system so often holds the key to individual healing.
I bring a unique lens thanks to my background as a postpartum doula, where I guided birthing people and families through the emotional and physical shifts early parenthood brings. This experience deepened my conviction that care must be culturally responsive and truly compassionate to be effective.
Adults navigating trauma, grief, chronic stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and complicated family or relationship dynamics make up the heart of my practice. This includes those moving through identity shifts, perinatal experiences, interpersonal violence, and significant life transitions, as well as immigrants and individuals living with chronic illness. My clinical approach draws from cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness, woven together within relational, strengths-based, and systems-oriented frameworks.
