Therapy can be a place to slow down, become curious about the patterns that shape our lives, and make room for parts of ourselves that may have been difficult to understand or express. I approach therapy as a collaborative process grounded in warmth, curiosity, and respect for the complexity of each person’s experience. I especially enjoy working with couples, LGBTQ+ clients, and young adults, as well as people navigating grief and loss, questions of identity and belonging, relationship challenges, major life transitions, and the emotional terrain surrounding death and dying.

My approach is integrative, drawing from depth-oriented and Jungian psychology, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and expressive arts therapies. Depending on what is most useful to you, our work might involve exploring relationships, dreams, images, emotions, or recurring patterns; developing concrete ways of working with difficult thoughts and behaviors; or using creativity and imagination to approach experiences that can be hard to put into words. I am currently training in the Expressive Arts Therapy program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). My longstanding practice of meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhist contemplative traditions also informs the quality of attention I bring to therapy, while honoring each client’s own beliefs, identities, and ways of making meaning.

Before training as a therapist, I earned a PhD in Literature and have taught at Stanford University since 2011. After many years as a writer and educator, I chose to move more deeply into work centered on psychological healing, relationship, and human development. I have also trained and volunteered as a Buddhist chaplain in hospital and hospice settings, accompanying people and families through illness, grief, dying, and profound life change. Across these different parts of my life, I have remained interested in the same fundamental questions: how we make meaning of what happens to us, how we live with loss, and how we might become more fully alive and ourselves.

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