I offer holistic psychotherapy in Irvine and across California for individuals, couples, and families seeking support for ADHD, trauma, relationship challenges, grief, life transitions, and personal growth. As a dual-licensed therapist, I combine clinical psychology with practical guidance, emotional insight, and collaborative care to help you understand root causes, strengthen self-awareness, build trust, restore stability, and create meaningful, lasting change.
I provide therapy for couples and families who want to heal disconnection, improve communication, repair trust, strengthen emotional intimacy, and build healthier patterns. Together, we address conflict, boundary issues, emotional repair, family system challenges, and relationship dynamics in a thoughtful, structured way.
I provide neurodiversity-affirming therapy for children, teens, and adults with ADHD, AuDHD, autism, and related learning differences. My work is strengths-based and practical, helping clients manage executive functioning challenges, emotional regulation, overwhelm, organization, sensory needs, masking, rejection sensitivity, and the experience of feeling misunderstood, while also offering clinical consultation when diagnostic clarity is needed.
I provide trauma-informed therapy for clients healing from complex trauma, complex PTSD, grief, betrayal trauma, and narcissistic abuse. If you feel confused, gaslighted, emotionally manipulated, or stuck in trauma bonds, I offer a supportive space to help you understand trauma patterns, rebuild self-worth, restore safety, regain emotional stability, and move toward recovery.
I offer compassionate support for clients working through substance use and process addictions, including alcohol, cigarettes, sugar, and starch-related patterns. Therapy focuses on understanding underlying triggers, strengthening self-awareness, and building healthier, more sustainable habits.
I offer Christian-based counseling for individuals who want to integrate faith with mental health care in a way that honors their beliefs and personal values. This approach creates space for spiritual, emotional, relational, and behavioral growth within a supportive clinical framework.
I offer bariatric support for clients navigating the emotional and psychological aspects of weight loss surgery before and after the procedure. Therapy can help you process change, strengthen coping skills, and maintain a healthier long-term foundation.
With an advanced master’s in clinical psychology from Pepperdine and 12 years of experience, I am a dedicated psychotherapist truly invested in my patients’ outcomes. Grounded in Rogerian principles—unconditional positive regard, congruence, and empathy—I am warm, understanding, inquisitive, direct, and transparent. I offer practical techniques, interventions, tools, and psychoeducation to help you find solutions. I am an Active Listener, Responsive, Investigative & Collaborative. “I have unique insight and ability to assist understanding, self awareness and healing or solutions”.
Lean into the process and embrace progress. I work hard for you, collaborating for personalized, individualized care. My comprehensive methods include: dual-diagnosis, optional homework, between-session exercises, progress checks, diagnostic reviews, adjunctive resources, and referrals. I encourage collateral care, provide cutting-edge research, and offer naturopathic suggestions. I address family/societal systems, multicultural considerations, and biases. I differentiate medical and neurological conditions from mental health symptoms for accurate assessment and treatment planning.
While my clinical expertise provides the foundation for our work together, my lived experience informs my empathy and intuition. Born in Laguna Beach, raised in Newport Beach, and now living in Irvine, I am surrounded by nature. I’m a lifelong singer, photographer, and creative. Proud mother to two grown sons and dog-mom to Honey, my two-year-old Yorkie.
I combine clinical expertise with genuine authenticity to offer therapy that is both clinically grounded and deeply human. By looking at the full picture of your well-being, including emotional, physical, relational, and social factors, I help you move beyond symptom management toward greater clarity, safety, trust, and meaningful long-term change.
