People often ask how I became a therapist. My answer is usually personal: my own inner suffering and unresolved relational trauma—and the symptoms that came with it—led me to study psychology and begin my own therapy. Both experiences brought me profound relief, healing, and encouragement.
As I recovered my dignity, self-esteem, and sense of agency through therapy, I felt deeply compelled to dedicate my life to this work. I wanted to become someone people felt safe enough to speak honestly with, heal alongside, and grow with in meaningful ways.
I formally entered the field of psychology at 18 while attending Sonoma State University. In 2012, I earned my graduate degree in Counseling Psychology from University of San Francisco. Shortly afterward, I completed two intensive post-graduate training programs in individual and group psychotherapy at The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, California. Today, I bring more than twenty years of combined education and clinical experience to my work in psychology and psychotherapy.
Throughout my career, I have held clinical positions in hospice care, hospitals, drug and alcohol treatment centers, foster care agencies, and community mental health clinics. These experiences have allowed me to work with a wide range of people and deepen my understanding of the many ways human beings struggle, adapt, heal, and transform.
Today, I maintain an online psychotherapy practice serving a diverse population of individuals, couples, families, and youth.
Outside of work, I most often find myself spending time with my family (including the non-humans), cooking, concocting herbal remedies, writing, practicing yoga, learning Spanish, dancing, and learning about a bunch of random stuff.
Credentials
Licensure
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT 90682
Academic Education
Graduate Education
University of San Francisco — San Francisco, CA
M.A. in Counseling Psychology: Marriage & Family Therapy
2010–2012
Undergraduate Education
San Francisco State University — San Francisco, CA
B.A. in Psychology
2006–2008
Sonoma State University — Rohnert Park, CA
Declared Major in Psychology
2004–2006
Post-Graduate Clinical Training
The Psychotherapy Institute — Berkeley, CA
2-Year Training Program in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
2014–2016
The Psychotherapy Institute — Berkeley, CA
1-Year Intensive Training Program in Psychodynamic Group Therapy
2017–2018
Somatica Institute — Remote Learning
1-Year Sex & Relationship Advanced Coaching Program
2023–2024
Trauma, Attachment & Couples Therapy Training
The Embody Lab — Online
60-Hour Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate
2025
The Gottman Institute — Online
Level 2 Clinical Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy
2025
The Gottman Institute — Online
Level 1 Clinical Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy
2025
Somatica Institute — Online
Sex & Intimacy Couples Training
2024
At The Crossroads of Trauma Therapy
Integrating EMDR, Structural Dissociation, Attachment Repair & Parts Work
2022
International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy — San Diego, CA
EFT Externship: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Training
2020
Myrna Martin Pre & Perinatal Education — Online
Pre & Perinatal Psychology Training
2019
PMADS Certification — Online
Postpartum Mood & Anxiety Disorders Training
2019
Somatic, Expressive & Integrative Healing Approaches
Institute for Health & Healing — San Francisco, CA
Certification in Expressive Arts Therapy & Guided Imagery
2012
Earth Activist Training with Starhawk — Online
Empowering Collaborative Groups
2021
Ancestral Medicine — Online
Animist Psychology
2020
Multidisciplinary Studies
National Autonomous University of Mexico (CEPE) — Mexico City, Mexico
Spanish Language Immersion Program
2024
Scottish School of Herbal Medicine — Scotland, UK
Herbal Apprenticeship
2021
Ancestral Apothecary: School of Herbal, Folk & Indigenous Medicine — Oakland, CA
1-Year Training in Folk Herbal Medicine
2020–2021
Ancestral Medicine — Remote Learning
Ancestral Lineage Healing Part 1 & 2
2020–2021
Cornerstone — California, USA
Postpartum Doula Training
2018
Yoga Tree — San Francisco, CA
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
2014
Ancestral Voice: Institute for Indigenous Lifeways — Novato, CA
1-Year Intensive for Remembering and Embodying Indigenous Ways of Living
2012–2013