About Me

I am a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and EMDRIA Certified Therapist™ who works with adults and relationship systems at the intersection of trauma, intimacy, sexuality, power, and high-responsibility roles. My work follows one systems-oriented lens across three connected levels: healing the self, transforming relationships, and understanding the environments that shape stress, identity, and recovery.
I frequently work with high-functioning professionals, caregivers, first responders, military service members, and medical personnel who are accustomed to being the people others depend on. They may appear capable and composed while privately experiencing persistent rumination, intrusive replay, hypervigilance, emotional shutdown, burnout, grief, moral injury, or a gradual erosion of identity. Therapy provides a confidential space where they no longer have to perform competence while carrying the full weight of what they have experienced.
I also work with individuals living with complex or developmental trauma, sexual trauma, chronic relational injury, attachment wounds, betrayal, and entrenched negative beliefs about safety, worth, responsibility, trust, and belonging. Many clients have spent years surviving through overfunctioning, avoidance, perfectionism, people-pleasing, emotional detachment, or chronic self-reliance. My approach is structured and paced to help clients develop sufficient stability before approaching memories and patterns that have previously felt overwhelming.
In relationship therapy, I support adults, couples, and consensual relationship systems navigating the effects of trauma on attachment, intimacy, sexuality, desire, communication, boundaries, consent, trust, and repair. My developing sexuality specialty includes sexual trauma and erotic agency, kink/BDSM-affirming care, consensual nonmonogamy and polyamory, and LGBTQIA+-affirming relationship therapy. Consensual kink and BDSM are not presumed to be symptoms of trauma or pathology. Clinical attention remains on meaning, function, consent, coercion, authenticity, relational impact, and each client’s stated goals. Therapy does not include physical scene facilitation or in-session kink activities.
My clinical approach integrates EMDR therapy with somatic resourcing, attachment-focused treatment, psychodynamic and parts-informed interventions, and nervous-system stabilization. EMDR can help address memories, emotions, beliefs, and body responses that continue to feel present even when a person intellectually understands that the experience is over. When clinically appropriate, I may also use the Flash Technique as a minimally intrusive adjunct for memories that initially feel too activating to approach directly. Flash allows the target to be held lightly in awareness while attention remains primarily on an engaging or positive focus; it does not require prolonged focus on detailed traumatic imagery.
My work is grounded in careful assessment, preparation, target sequencing, pacing, and integration. I do not approach trauma processing as a pursuit of emotional intensity or catharsis. We build capacity first, then process what the nervous system is prepared to approach. Across this work, I return to six connected capacities:
Safety. Trust. Power. Choice. Connection. Agency.
The goal is not simply to reduce symptoms. It is to help clients regain self-trust, expand their ability to remain present with emotion, understand the patterns beneath their reactions, and experience greater choice in how they relate to themselves and others.
My doctoral training in Industrial–Organizational Psychology adds a systems-level understanding of how workload, role expectations, leadership environments, organizational culture, moral conflict, and institutional conditions can contribute to stress and burnout. This perspective helps me avoid locating every difficulty solely within the individual. Psychotherapy and executive coaching remain separate services with distinct agreements, records, goals, and professional boundaries. Executive coaching is not provided as a substitute for psychotherapy.