My Approach
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
EMDR & Brainspotting Trauma Therapy
Mindfulness Somatic Therapy
Buddhist-Based & Spiritually-Focused Therapy
My Approach
to Therapy
My approach to therapy is rooted in Somatic Mindfulness, stemming from my experience as a Buddhist practitioner with a Masters in Mindfulness-based Counseling. Somatic mindfulness therapy is an approach that combines mindfulness practices with a focus on the body's sensations and experiences. It involves cultivating present-moment awareness of bodily sensations, emotions, and thoughts, and using this awareness to explore and process underlying patterns and traumas. By bringing attention to the body and its sensations, somatic mindfulness therapy creates a connection between feelings in the present and experiences and memories of the past. This helps us understand how previous chapters in our life impact us today.
In therapy, we can harness the power of metta, or loving kindness, in our approach to healing trauma, releasing old patterns, and stuck energy in the body. When we look inwards with loving kindness, we build compassion for ourselves as we navigate difficult emotions and challenging memories.
Creating a Home Within
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a powerful therapeutic approach that helps you understand yourself as a system of different “parts,” each with its own feelings, needs, and motivations. When you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or conflicted, it’s often because different parts of you are pulling in opposite directions—one part might want change while another part feels scared, or one part might be critical while another feels deeply wounded. IFS helps you recognize and connect with these parts from a place of self-compassion, so instead of feeling controlled by self-doubt, anxiety, or shame, you can begin to understand why these parts show up and how they’re trying to protect you.
Through this process, you can gain more clarity about what you truly want, heal past wounds, and feel more integrated within yourself. Rather than feeling at war with different aspects of your experience, IFS helps you create a sense of inner balance, where all parts of you feel heard and supported. Therapy can guide you in developing a strong, calm, and compassionate core “Self” that leads with confidence, helping you navigate life with greater ease and authenticity.
Nervous System & Attachment Healing
When we experience stress or trauma, our nervous system responds in different ways to keep us safe—commonly known as fight, flight, fawn or freeze responses. In fight mode, you might feel irritable, reactive, or easily frustrated, as your body prepares to defend itself. Flight mode can show up as restlessness, anxiety, or an urge to escape or overwork to avoid distress. Freeze mode often looks like feeling stuck, numb, or dissociated, as if your body has shut down to protect you. These survival responses are automatic, shaped by past experiences, and can become patterns that make it hard to feel safe and regulated in daily life.
Polyvagal theory helps us understand how to shift out of these states by working with the vagus nerve, which plays a key role in calming the nervous system. The “vagal brake” is a natural mechanism that slows down the heart rate and helps the body return to a state of safety and connection. Healing the nervous system can involve practices that strengthen this response, such as deep breathing, mindful movement, humming, or connecting with safe and supportive people. By learning to regulate your nervous system, you can move out of chronic stress states and into a more grounded, calm, and open way of being, allowing for deeper relationships, greater emotional flexibility, and a stronger sense of resilience.
Attachment healing helps people feel safer and more comfortable in their adult relationships by addressing the ways early experiences with parents and caregivers shaped their sense of trust, security, and self-worth. If you grew up in an environment where your emotional needs were met inconsistently, dismissively, or harmfully, you may struggle with anxiety, avoidance, or fear of intimacy in relationships today.
Healing attachment wounds in therapy involves recognizing these patterns, understanding how they developed as survival strategies, and learning new ways to connect that feel safe and fulfilling. Through self-compassion, inner reparenting, and secure relational experiences—whether in therapy or in healthy relationships—you can begin to shift old beliefs about love, trust, and connection, allowing you to feel more confident, valued, and at ease with others.
Liberation Healing
Liberation healing acknowledges that personal struggles don’t exist in isolation—they are deeply connected to the social systems we live in. Many forms of distress, including anxiety, depression, and trauma, are shaped not just by personal experiences but also by systemic oppression, such as racism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, and ableism. Traditional therapy often focuses solely on the individual, but liberation healing recognizes that societal injustice plays a major role in mental health. By naming and validating these experiences, therapy becomes a space where you don’t have to internalize blame for struggles that are, in part, a response to oppression. Instead, you can explore how these external forces have impacted your sense of self and begin reclaiming your power.
Liberation Healing is a decolonial and anti-oppressive approach to therapy which helps you unlearn harmful narratives imposed by dominant culture and reconnect with your authentic self, cultural roots, and community. Healing is not just about coping with oppression—it’s about resisting it, finding your voice, and creating space for joy and self-acceptance. Therapy can support you in building resilience, processing identity-based trauma, and fostering self-compassion in a world that often devalues marginalized identities. In this work, your experiences are honored, your emotions are validated, and your healing is seen as an act of liberation, not just for yourself, but for the generations that come after you.
Clinical Specialties
Depression/Anxiety
Existential Crisis, Spiritual Growth
Self Esteem, Self-Worth, Empowerment
Romance/Dating, Polyamory, Kink
LGBTQA, BIPOC, and Intersecting Identities
Career shifts
Loss/Grief
Early Childhood Trauma, Complex Trauma
Intergenerational/Inherited Family Trauma
Addiction
Liberation Healing (decolonist/social justice framework)
Psychedelic Integration
Buddhist-Based Therapy and Spiritually-Focused Therapy
Energy Healing
Therapy Approaches
✓ Internal Family Systems (IFS)
✓EMDR
✓ Brainspotting
✓ Hakomi, Somatic Psychotherapy
✓ Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
✓ Somatic Experiencing
✓ Gestalt
✓ Emotionally Focused Therapy
✓ Attachment/Relational Therapy
✓ NonViolent Communication Skills
✓ Drug/Alcohol Harm Reduction
✓ Mindfulness, Meditation Skills
Certifications & Trainings
• EMDR Trauma Training, EMDRIA, 2024
• Brainspotting Trauma Training, Pacific Trauma Center, 2024
• Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Training, Alchemy Therapy Community Center, 2023
• Suicide Crisis & Prevention Training, Crisis Support Services of Alameda County, 2022
•Internal Family Systems Therapy Level 1 & 2, 2020
• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Level 1, 2020
• Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory, 2020
• Relational Life Therapy, Terry Real, 2020
• Hakomi Method Training, 2020
• 250-Hour Tantric Hatha Yoga Teacher Training, 2016
DEGREES
• MA in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling, Naropa University, 2023
• BA in Sociology and French, UCLA, 2004
The True Self is the Soul Made Visible
Authenticity is our natural state of being. When we embody our True Self, we are truly alive, living in accordance with our soul’s values and manifesting our purpose and dreams.