I provide individual, group and couples therapy.  My approach to psychotherapy integrates relational, somatic and psychodynamic therapy with Buddhist psychology and practices. While I am coming from a Buddhist worldview, the work with each client starts from the clients’ spiritual principles and practices and we work within the clients’ worldview and system. The way this plays out with each individual is unique, and together with my clients we co-create a relational dynamic that values the unique needs and expression of each person. My approach with clients is engaged, active, and present-focused.

I view individual therapy as a dynamic process of clearing the mental, emotional and behavioral habits that keep us stuck and blocked from realizing our true nature, potentiality, and happiness birthright. In therapy with my clients, I center my interpersonal connection to clients’ underlying freedom and potential for personal transformation even when we are deep in the weeds of clients’ suffering.

Areas of specialization include:

• Anxiety and Depression

• Grief

• Eating Disorders, Addition and Recovery

• Life Transitions

• Chronic and Acute Illness

• Parenting and Reproductive Mental Health

• Trauma

• Family and Relationship Concerns

• Spiritual and Existential Concerns

Individual therapy sessions are conducted weekly, and depending on clients’ concerns, I encourage and support clients to complement therapy with yoga, meditation practice, psycho-education, physical exercise, spiritual practice and study, and/or group therapy.   

The most important and effective key to therapy is finding a good match between therapist and client.  The unique relationship has to be a “good fit” within the context of a safe, compassionate, confidential, consistent and reliable relational environment.  Given the importance of finding a good therapeutic fit, I encourage clients to consider the first couple of sessions with me to be a time to mutually discern whether we are a good match, and to interview other prospective therapists.