About Me

As a psychodynamic, relational psychotherapist, I make space to talk about intersectionality and how systems of oppression impact everyone. I believe in the importance of considering, acknowledging and talking openly about how the interactions between the therapist and client can shape your experience in therapy. Given the inherent power dynamic in the therapeutic relationship, I often check in about how what I do "lands" and pause to give space for your reactions and feedback. For these reasons, I am sharing some of my identities and experiences that could be relevant to you to discern if we could be a good fit.

• I am a bilingual therapist with many years of clinical experience providing support in Spanish. 

• I identify as an anti-racist and anti-oppressive white feminist, with an understanding of how persons with these identities have frequently caused intentional or unintentional harm to others including Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC). 

• I identify as straight and strive to be LGBTQ-affirming. 

• I was raised Episcopalian (a type of Protestant Christian) and now am a practicing Unitarian Universalist. 

• I am a pro-choice therapist, supporting clients with a variety of beliefs and experiences about reproductive health and abortion.

• I was raised as the youngest in a big family. 

• I was born and raised in Washington, DC.

• I also am an adventurer, extroverted and meditation practitioner.

While each client has unique priorities, needs and reasons for seeking therapy, these are examples of what we can hold together in therapy. My clients have told me they feel safe to bringing up these topics to explore:

• Deepening Resilience and Coping: finding realistic ways to sit with the intensity with anxiety, panic attacks, depression;  strengthening your routines with movement, social connection and creativity; exploring your experience and perspective about medication as a supportive resource to reduce your symptoms while creating capacity for the work in therapy. 

• Navigating Life's Transitions: moving through loneliness at your phase of life, difficulty of establishing your community, uncertainty about who you are and your identities, struggling to find work/life balance

• The Perinatal & Reproductive Journey: discerning whether to conceive or step towards the path to parenthood, finding support after a miscarriage, medical termination or loss, adjusting to the profound shifts of pregnancy or postpartum as the birthing or non-birthing partner

• Relational Needs: exploring how your current connections are influenced by your past experiences; naming the challenges of trust and intimacy whether single, dating or in relationship, trying new boundaries and growing awareness and resilience with attachment triggers

• Healing from the Past: understanding and breaking intergenerational cycles of resilience and harm, healing from experiences of abuse and neglect, tend to attachment wounds, expressing parts of your past for the first time

• Finding Understanding and Alignment: healing after grief, honoring your reproductive decisions; ambivalence or uncertainty about upcoming life decisions, living authentically with your values, exploring your past and current relationship with religion and spirituality

DEGREES AND LICENSURE 

● Independently licensed with DC Board of Social Work and Maryland Board of Social Work

Smith College, School of Social Work: Masters in Social Work 2020

Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA: Bachelor of Arts 2011, Cum Laude

Major: Urban & Environmental Policy; Minor: Spanish

In 2024, I completed Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level I. In 2025-2026, am participating now in the Expanding Psychoanalytic Practice in Communities (EPPIC) a monthly seminar to explore how psychoanalytic thinking can address current urgent, real-world challenges. Presentations and small group discussions highlight existing community-based projects, teach concepts, questions and reflections to collaborate and learn from diverse, interdisciplinary dialogue.

Before starting my private practice, I provided crisis intervention, individual and group therapy to sexual abuse survivors, college students, and diverse, low-income community members. In addition to providing mental health services, I previously provided know-your-rights presentations to men and children in immigration detention, worked in interfaith labor organizing, and taught English while living in South America.