While therapist is a newer title for me, I have been coaching, teaching and counseling people for over twenty years. I also have 30 years experience navigating personal experience with AuDHD, depression, entrepreneurship, teaching, activism, culture, relational trauma, ritual and meditation.

I am adept at treating those with neurodivergence, dual diagnoses and working collaboratively with psychiatrists. However, I truly feel that the best therapy happens when we can shed diagnostic labels aside when they feel confining or keep us stuck in an endless game of symptom-wack-a-mole without ever resolving our painful patterns or persistent suffering. The truth is: every individual is uniquely complex, and not every diagnosis is accurate.

And while I’m don’t believe fixation on diagnostic labels is healthy for humans or necessary for our healing, I am clear that for many people, decolonizing their psyche from the trauma of being “treated” by the Western corporatized medical system is an essential part of their healing journey.

I believe the heart of therapy’s overall benefit is in the co-creating of an authentic, nurturing, and inspiring relationship— one where it becomes safe enough to share both pain and joy with ease. Where we experiment with different approaches until something really clicks, and you start to to feel your feel more safe, more whole, connected to your passions and values, and secure in your relationship with your self and others.

I rely a lot on the diversity of my life experience to connect with my clients. I was a high school English teacher in Oakland, CA for five years.

I was then co-founder and CEO of a boutique marketing agency that served large tech companies. There, I became familiar with the challenges of corporate culture and entrepreneurship.

For the following 10 years, I was a life coach and somatic meditation teacher. During that time, I also taught workshops on communication and intimacy, led guided meditations and rites of passage rituals, and gained therapeutic experience with entheogens and other healing modalities, such as: CranioSacral, Lomi Lomi, and Watsu.

Currently attending: Minding the Heart: a 6-month Experiential Therapy Course that integrates AEDP, IFS, and Coherence Therapy with Tori Olds, Phd.

Parts Work for Memory Reconsolidation with Kina Wolfenstein, LCSW.

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapist, AEDP Level 2 

Queer Psychedelic Facilitator, Integrate Psychedelic Wellness

Meditation and Sound Healing with: Silvia Nakkach, Sally Kempton, David Cates, Christopher Wallis & Uma Inder

M.A. in Integral Counseling Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies

M.A. in Education, University of California, Berkeley

B.A. in Communication, University of California, San Diego

Education & Training

I consider myself part of the queer, neurodivergent, polyamorous, sex-positive, and sex worker-allied communities. I love travel, music, dance, writing, and being a devoted plant mom and auntie to my young nieces and nephews.

As a former high school teacher, I enjoy working with adolescents and families. In my education career, I participated in extensive anti-racist training and worked primarily in Black, Latine, and immigrant communities.

I am mixed race (white and Latine). Culturally, I grew up in a predominantly white community and family. While I experience a lot of white privilege, I also dealt with racism frequently as a young person. Because people often view me as culturally ambiguous, I incur a lot of assumptions and questions about my racial identity.

In a quest to understand my heritage better, I began studying Spanish in my teens and lived in Mexico for three years in my twenties. I am California born and raised, but have also lived in Bali, Indonesia and Nashville, Tennessee.

I am about 75% fluent in Spanish, but it is not my first language. While I don’t currently conduct sessions in Spanish, I often encourage my Spanish-speaking clients to express more nuanced thoughts and emotions in their mother tongue.