To know is not enough.

We come to therapy because we need help making a change. Insight alone rarely does it. Change happens through practice. Together we'll excavate the patterns underneath, in mind and body, and design a practice built for you.

I work with adults and couples on anxiety, trauma, sleep, and the relationship patterns that keep repeating.

In-person in Echo Park, Los Angeles | Online throughout California
$175 Individual; $200 Couples. In-network with Aetna.

Evening and weekend appointments available

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This might be you

You've done therapy before, and it helped, up to a point.

You can explain your patterns accurately but still repeat them.

Something happened that your body hasn't finished with.

You and your partner keep having the same fight and want to find new tools.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.

- C.G. Jung

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You Don’t Have to Stay Stuck

If you’re here, you’re probably not looking for surface-level coping.

You’re ready to understand the deeper currents: how early nervous-system learning, relational trauma, and long-standing habits of mind shape how you feel, how you relate, how you move through life’s inevitable challenges.

You’re ready to do real work. To see your blind spots. To practice change instead of wishing for it.

Our work is both contemplative and practical: learning to meet reality and uncertainty without collapsing, while building new neural pathways through somatic, relational, and creative experiments. Over time, your system learns to experience life in a different way.

If you’re a thoughtful, creative person who wants to go deep and is willing to experiment, we’ll work well together.

HOW IT WORKS

Free Consultation. Twenty minutes.

First session. Your history, what you want, how we'll work.

The work. Usually weekly. Talk, EMDR, parts work, somatic and creative experiments.

Couples Therapy in Echo Park

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