I’m a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (#156501) and Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor (#APCC20055), employed and supervised by Adina M. Ascher, PhD, LCSW (#28900). I hold an MS in Counseling from Cal State East Bay and a Master of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts.
Before becoming a therapist, I spent years deeply immersed in the arts. That creative background still shapes how I think, feel, and work today. I believe everyone carries a rich, often hidden inner world, and that some of the truest parts of a person live in the rooms they’ve learned to keep the door shut on. I see therapy as the practice of going into those rooms together: gently, honestly, and without judgment, so that we can open the windows and doors and let the light in.
I’m especially drawn to working with people who have been othered in one way or another, and who may carry early trauma tied to that experience. That kind of history has a way of tying itself into knots, shame braided with survival, protection braided with silence, until the knots start to feel like identity rather than what happened. My work is about helping untangle that, so what once felt frightening or fixed can become something you understand, hold, and set down.
I’m married to my husband, who is also my best friend, and I’m a proud cat dad of two wonderfully odd, affectionate cats. I hold a deep love for music and visual art and maintain an active creative practice of my own. Whether through making, listening, or simply being with art, I’ve always experienced it as a bridge, between the inner and outer world, between what we know and what remains mysterious.
My approach is rooted in curiosity, care, and a profound respect for the complexity of being human. I believe creativity can be a powerful way to process trauma and connect with the unconscious, and that spirituality, in whatever form it takes, matters. I’m especially drawn to what is abstract, ambiguous, and hard to put into words, the experiences that don’t fit neatly into a box but still ask to be witnessed and honored.
