Are you having difficulties coping with stress, managing conflicts, and connecting to others? Conflicts can elicit emotions, thoughts, and reactions that structure our sense of self and our relationships.  I can help guide you to a better understanding of deeper feelings about your relationships and personal view of self.   

In my sessions, I offer clients compassion, openness, and empathy.  I value diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and evaluate how clients' individual and family experiences affect their lives.

Working through a client-centered and humanistic lens, I work to help my clients better understand themselves, cultivate their strengths, gain insight into their challenges, and make the changes they think are necessary. I assist clients in rebuilding self-trust and self-confidence while relying on their unique inner wisdom. It is a privilege to help clients heal from the past and be more empowered in the present.

I have a professional interest and unique perspectives to issues of difference and connection. Be it cross cultural issues, intergenerational conflicts, or challenges of life transition and growth, I exercise a compassionate understanding in resolving the seeming paradoxes of conflicts to achieve an increased sense of harmony and peace.

Education: 

•   BA in Psychology

•  MA in Clinical Psychology

•   PsyD in Clinical Psychology, Multi-Cultural & Community Psychology

Experience contributing to clinical therapy practice:

17 years of experience.  Worked with children, adolescents, and adults in community mental health centers, young adults in private and state universities, adults and couples in private practice.

Advanced clinical training: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for a variety of mental health concerns and disorders.  

Certification: 

• Currently working on certification for EFT.

• Currently working on certification for EMDR. 

Treatment Specializations: 

•  Anxiety

•  Depression

•  Relationship Issues

• Grief

•  Self-esteem

• Cross cultural

•  Intergenerational conflicts

• Trauma

• PTSD

• Couples Therapy