Specialties

I welcome individuals from all walks of life, offering a therapeutic dynamic where your unique experiences are honored and explored. While I am equipped to support a broad spectrum of challenges, my specialized focus includes working with the LGBTQIA2S+ community, individuals recovering from addiction, and adolescents. These areas represent my deepest expertise, allowing me to provide tailored care to help you meet your goals.

LGBTQIA2S+ Affirmative Therapy

I don’t just work with LGBTQIA2S+ clients. I build therapeutic spaces where queer, trans, and nonbinary people are fully seen, affirmed, and celebrated. From the start of my career, I’ve maintained an LGBTQIA+ affirming perspective in my interactions with clients of all ages. My time as a primary therapist at the exceptional La Fuente Hollywood Treatment Center, a residential substance use program serving the LGBTQ+ community, allowed me to further hone my clinical skills. There, I witnessed the brilliance, resilience, grief, and complexity that often accompany queer and trans survival—and I carry that into every session.

I particularly love working with multigenerational LGBTQIA+ families (parents, teens, adult children, chosen kin) because I know how much power and healing can live in those connections. I honor both the histories we inherit and the futures we create together.

In our work, I won’t ask you to downplay who you are to feel safe. I celebrate the strength inherent in LGBTQIA+ identity and hold space for the impact of systemic harm. My approach is psychodynamically grounded and justice-informed, with room for nuance, contradiction, and change.

Addiction Informed Therapy

Addiction has been at the center of my work since the beginning. I’ve supported clients in recovery from substances like meth, GHB, alcohol, ketamine, cocaine, and THC, as well as process addictions like sex and love addiction. I’ve worked with people at every stage of recovery: from day one of sobriety, to relapse and return, to years into healing and still unpacking the deeper layers.

I’m fluent in the language and spirit of 12 Step recovery, and I deeply respect the transformative power of programs like AA. I also recognize that sobriety doesn’t look the same for everyone. I practice through a harm reduction lens, because I believe recovery is most sustainable when it’s tailored to your needs, values, and lived experience— not someone else’s rules.

I also work with the loved ones of addicts; partners, parents, siblings, chosen family. In individual therapy, we may explore what it means to lovingly detach, set boundaries, and grieve what’s been lost. In family therapy, we work to rebuild trust without glossing over the real impact addiction can have.

My approach blends psychodynamic depth with DBT tools. But more than anything, I bring curiosity, compassion, and an unwavering belief in your capacity to change.

Recovery is hard. It’s also possible, and you don’t have to do it alone.

Therapy for Adolescents

Adolescence is intense. Not only is this true for the teen, but also for everyone around them. I specialize in working with teens who are navigating big emotions, identity questions, family friction, school pressure, substance use, and the messy in-between of growing up. In my current role as a primary and family therapist at PHP and IOP levels of care, I work with teens and their families through some of the most challenging (and transformative) chapters of their lives.

I validate what’s real and hard about being a teenager in today’s world. I know that what looks like defiance is often pain. That “I don’t know” often means “I’m not comfortable.” That humor is a coping skill. I offer a therapeutic space that’s grounded, relational, and built on trust— and I’m not afraid to call a teen out (with compassion) when it’s time to get honest.

My approach blends psychodynamic insight with DBT skills, narrative exploration, and deep respect for each teen’s autonomy. I also work closely with families, helping parents and caregivers shift out of power struggles and into more meaningful connections.

Working with teens means holding space for contradiction: independence and guidance, frustration and care, resistance and hope. I’m here for all of it.