EMDR, Premarital Counseling, Couples Therapy, and Individual Therapy in Echo Park, Los Angeles
I work with adults and couples in Echo Park, Los Angeles, offering therapy for anxiety, trauma, and relationship challenges. My approach integrates talk therapy, EMDR, CBT, DBT, IFS-informed parts work, Imago couples therapy, and somatic, creative process.
I specialize in anxiety disorders, depression, trauma-related symptoms, insomnia, relationship challenges, existential concerns, low self-esteem, and premarital counseling.
Healing is relational. The nervous system changes through co-regulation before self-regulation—this process happens in the context of a safe, attuned therapeutic relationship.
In-person in Echo Park, Los Angeles | Online throughout California | Coaching internationally
The Cognito Approach
Cognito means reclaiming what’s been hidden. It’s the opposite of incognito.
It’s a process of bringing unconscious patterns into awareness—so you’re no longer shaping yourself to fit in, but learning how to belong as you are.
The Cognito approach draws on IFS-informed parts work and somatic awareness to help you notice how different parts of you show up in real time—emotionally, relationally, and in your body. Together, we track patterns as they emerge: habits of mind, relational strategies, and the parts of you that stay concealed, both from others and from yourself.
My role is not to direct or fix, but to witness, reflect, and offer a steady, attuned presence. Through that relational space, patterns that can’t be seen—or shifted—alone have room to come into focus and change. Over time, you strengthen your capacity to self-regulate, to discern which parts need care rather than control, and to develop a more grounded inner, wise advocate.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- C.G. Jung
You Don’t Have to Stay Stuck
If you’re here, you’re probably not looking for surface-level coping.
You’re ready to understand the deeper currents—how early nervous-system learning, relational trauma, and long-standing habits of mind shape how you feel, how you relate, how you move through life’s inevitable challenges.
You’re ready to do real work. To see your blind spots. To practice change instead of wishing for it.
Our work is both contemplative and practical: learning to meet reality and uncertainty without collapsing, while building new neural pathways through somatic, relational, and creative experiments. Over time, your system learns to experience life in a different way.
If you’re a thoughtful, creative person who wants to go deep and is willing to experiment, we’ll work well together.
Ultimately, healing is a mountain you must climb with your own two feet—but not alone. Relational neuroscience teaches us that healing begins with co-regulation before self-regulation. The nervous system thrives in relationship, support, and attunement.
If you’re ready to take proactive steps toward a more fulfilling life, I’d be honored to support you.
Couples Therapy in Echo Park
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