Therapy for Adults in Los Altos, CA.
About Me.
I am passionate about helping people explore their inner worlds and understand what holds them back. As a therapist and clinical social worker, I primarily work with adults seeking to understand their emotional worlds in deeper and novel ways. Feel free to explore my specialty pages for more details on specific areas in which I specialize.
I work from a relational psychoanalytic perspective, integrating attachment theory, helping you understand your motivations, patterns, and relationships with yourself and others. Sometimes we’ll reflect on early experiences, sometimes focus on what’s hard right now, and sometimes explore how therapy itself feels. I create a space for you to talk freely and prefer a collaborative approach where we uncover deeper insights together.
Maybe you’ve tried therapy where you get a list of coping strategies and the therapist is trying to solve your problems in a shallow way instead of really getting to know you and your personal idiom. I’m not the therapist who throws solutions at you. This is the sort of therapy where we go deep and really work through what we need to get to.
In conducting ant 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 your pain together. I center the therapeutic relationship, encouraging us to continually talk about what is occurring (and not occurring) in the therapy.
Therapy is not just a conversation between two people. It’s a sacred place to slow down, to process, to think with another who privileges your thoughts, feelings and ideas. Therapy offers the unique opportunity to get to know your whole self — healthy and unhealthy patterns -- in a way that allows for healing, growth, and transformation. As a time and space for you to get in touch with your most genuine self, I am committed to helping you navigate the intricate landscape of your mind and freeing yourself from what holds you back.
My Background
With an early interest in existential philosophy, personality psychology, and emerging developments in neuroscience, I found psychotherapy as the optimal space to integrate various intellectual and creative interests that spoke to me.
This culminated in receiving my Masters in Social Work (2018) and completing the Integrated Child and Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program through the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (2021), More recently I have completed Fellowship Year at the Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program at Stanford University .
Foregrounding a depth-oriented style, I work from a Relational Psychoanalytic perspective, I incorporate Existential, Human-Centered, and Object Relations modalities into my practice.
I currently hold active social work licenses in both California and Washington state.
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.
Ready to take the next step? Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or to request a consultation.
