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About My Clients
I work with people who feel like their lives are a mess. Sometimes this sense of chaos has been lifelong. Other times something has happened that completely upends the structure of a person’s life, leaving them to pick up the pieces. The people I work with don’t fit into a neat diagnostic box. They often struggle with issues across a number of domains, whether eating, substance use, career, identity, and of course relationships. I also work with many people who are queer and/or artists.
My Background and Approach
My approach to treatment is psychodynamic, meaning instead of trying to solve this week’s problem, our work together will focus on the deeper dynamics that manifest as that problem. Together we’ll attempt to work through these underlying issues to provide you with a greater sense of stability, cohesiveness – and most of all a greater sense of being alive. I received my B.A. in Theater Arts at UCLA and I earned my Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Depth Psychology program. For my graduate thesis, I published my research on the failures of the binaries in the medical and mental-health systems serving Trans* patients, and the contemporary psychoanalytic theories aiming to answer these failures. I have had training adult attachment presentation, asset-based counselling, contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice, and relational perspectives on eating disorders, addicitions and compulsions.