Therapy for Adults in Los Altos, CA.
About Me.
I’m passionate about helping people explore their inner worlds and understand what holds them back. I work primarily with adults seeking therapy for anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and a sense of feeling stuck or disconnected. Life can appear functional or successful on the outside, while something on the inside is constrained, unresolved and needs work.
As a therapist and clinical social worker, my work is grounded in a relational psychoanalytic and attachment-based approach. Together, we will focus on understanding your emotional world, your motivations and patterns, and how your relationships—past and present—shape the way you experience yourself and others. I aim to create a space where you can speak freely and be met as you are. At times we may reflect on early experiences, at times focus on what feels most pressing right now, and at times pay attention to what unfolds between us in the therapy space itself.
Many people come to me after trying therapies that felt focused on quick fixes, coping strategies, or problem-solving without deeper understanding. That approach isn’t my style. I don’t offer surface-level solutions or a list of techniques to manage symptoms. Instead, this is the kind of therapy where we slow down, go deeper, and work thoughtfully through what’s getting in the way so change can emerge in a way that feels meaningful, durable, and genuinely yours.
In conducting any therapy, I find that it is most effective when certain norms are established. Chief among these is a spirit of warmth and emotional safety for you to share your story freely and openly. As a part of the psychoanalytic tradition, I will encourage you to take the lead in our sessions, foregrounding your voice and autonomy as we collaboratively work through what is bringing you to therapy.
The therapeutic relationship itself is central. Together, we notice what unfolds in your life and in the room, reflecting on what is present, difficult, or absent. This helps illuminate patterns connected to anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationships, supporting insight and lasting change.
Therapy is more than conversation. It is a dedicated space to slow down, process, and think alongside someone who privileges your experience. Over time, this work helps you reconnect with your most genuine self, strengthen your capacity to meet life’s challenges, and loosen what has been holding you back.
My Background
I’ve long been drawn to classic literature, existential philosophy, personality psychology, and developments in neuroscience—fields that illuminate the complexity of human experience. Psychotherapy became the natural space to bring these intellectual and creative interests together in service of helping others understand themselves more deeply.
I earned my Master’s in Social Work in 2018 and completed the Integrated Child and Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 2021. More recently, I completed a Fellowship Year at the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program at Stanford University, further deepening my expertise in relational and depth-oriented work.
My approach centers on a relational psychoanalytic perspective, integrating Existential, Human-Centered, and Object Relations modalities. This allows therapy to be tailored to your unique needs, supporting insight, emotional growth, and the exploration of patterns in your relationships and inner world.
I hold active social work licenses in both California and Washington, providing therapy to adults in person and online across these states.
The only true voyage of discovery…would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
— Marcel Proust
Contact Me.
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