“Stuck places are where something new wants to happen”
Eugene Gendlin
If you’re feeling stuck, you’re not alone. Stuckness isn’t failure—it’s a sign that something new is emerging. Therapy helps clear what’s blocking you so you can reconnect with your values and desires.
Individual & Relationship Therapy
I see individuals in person in San Francisco and online throughout California who are navigating sexual shame, anxiety, life transitions, and grief. I specialize in working with LGBTQIA+ clients, especially those carrying the weight of early sexual stigma. Artists, writers, and tech professionals often find their way to me when inspiration feels blocked or when the very passions that fuel their work start to feel overwhelming. I have a special affinity for people-pleasers, highly sensitive souls, and anyone whose gifts have been muted by self-doubt or perfectionism.
In addition, I work with couples and people in non-traditional relationships (poly, ENM, open). Whether you have one partner or many, we’ll sharpen communication, negotiate boundaries with care, and cultivate the mutual understanding that keeps connection and desire alive.
Finally, as an academic who has often been caught between worlds, I support former scholars, tech professionals, and other high-stress achievers who yearn for deeper meaning and more authentic connection both inside and outside of work.
My Approach
Everyone suffers. That suffering is shaped by personal history, intergenerational legacies, and sociopolitical forces that can leave us feeling powerless. Therapy helps us cultivate the capacity to witness this suffering with clarity and compassion, recognize what we can change, and make peace with what we cannot. With non-judgmental attention, the parts we’ve disowned can re-emerge, making space for deeper connection to ourselves, our communities, and our world.
I don’t see symptoms as problems to fix. I see them as messages from the unconscious asking to be honored and understood. In our work together, I integrate relational, depth-oriented, liberationist, and somatic approaches. At your pace, we’ll listen inward to understand your experience more fully. Over time, this awareness becomes a resource, helping you respond rather than react and live in alignment with what matters most.
About me
I hold a PhD in Social Psychology from UC Davis and an MA in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. For over a decade, I’ve been teaching and researching gender and sexuality, with a focus on sexual stigma and the social history of HIV/AIDS. I currently teach in the PhD program in Human Sexuality at CIIS.
I’ve been in and out of therapy myself for most of my adult life. My therapists came from many walks of life, but what mattered most was their ability to see me and to help me discover new parts of myself through our relationship. That kind of collaborative witnessing, I believe, is the heart of transformation.
Still, what we’re able to see and feel in another is shaped by our own histories and the intersecting identities that inform them. I’m committed to talking openly about our differences and doing my own learning so I can better understand you—and if I can’t, to helping you find someone who can.
When I’m not seeing clients or teaching, I’m often on a yoga mat, out for a run, watching films, or laughing with friends.
Reach out
Interested in working together? Please fill out the form to schedule a free 20 minute consultation.