Why I Became A Therapist

I just got my associate license. I'm officially allowed to see clients now.

Getting here wasn't easy - grad school while working full-time as a producer and being a single mom felt impossible some days. But I made it. And now I'm at the bottom of another mountain: building my practice.

For 15+ years, I produced everything from documentaries and TV shows to immersive art installations and social impact campaigns. I worked with the LA County Department of Mental Health on large-scale healing art events. I produced activations for The California Endowment to uplift young people of color across California.

I loved the work, but production consumed everything. I had no room to breathe, let alone create my own art.

Becoming a therapist gives me both - meaningful work helping people heal, and space to make films and art that matter to me. I don't have to choose anymore.

My grandmother was a psychiatrist. I saw how she transformed lives. In college, I studied Buddhist psychology with Janet Gyatso alongside my film degree. I trained as a doula at SF General Hospital. I worked as a medic at the Berkeley Free Clinic. I kept circling back to the same questions: How do we actually heal, how do we change?

I've climbed my own inner mountains - attachment issues from moving schools every year as a kid, codependency, people pleasing, heartbreak, CPTSD, burnout. Through EMDR, somatic work, IFS, and therapists who weren't afraid of my mess, I found my way through.

That's what I want to offer you.

I work with people going through heartbreak, relationship challenges and endings, anxiety that won't let up, and patterns that keep repeating. We'll work with what's stuck - in your body, your relationships, the parts of you that feel at war.

I use EMDR for trauma, IFS for the parts of you that fight each other, Imago for couples, breathwork for your nervous system, and whatever else actually works for you.

You can book a free consultation here.