I received my Masters in Clinical Social Work from USC, focusing on Clinical Mental Health, Psychotherapy practice, and strengths-based systems of recovery from mental illness. I grew up in the Bay Area and have been working in Mental Health in Los Angeles since 2010.
I have worked with diverse groups of people across the life span, of all sexual/gender orientations, and have a particular amount of experience working with adults 18-55 years old.
My training as a Therapist is in a modality called Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). ISTDP is a trauma-informed, attachment-oriented, experiential, emotion-focused therapy that research has shown to effectively treat many mental health and behavioral difficulties. ISTDP may help people resolve long-standing difficulties with anxiety, depression, intimacy and closeness, un-resolved grief, entrenched forms of self-criticism/sabotage, obsessive thinking, and more.
I'll be initially very curious to understand you and what currently brings you to therapy so that, together, we can clearly determine what is driving your current problems and difficulties and how we'll help free you up to heal.
