Explore your inner world here
Online therapy in CA for people who are thoughtful, capable, and still feel unsettled inside
A slower, insight-oriented approach to therapy
You might arrive here because on the outside, your life looks relatively put together but inside, things don’t feel as steady or clear as you’d expect. You’re thoughtful, self-aware, and capable yet you find yourself feeling anxious, tense, or disconnected in ways that don’t quite make sense. You may have spent a lot of time reflecting and trying to understand yourself, but still something feels off.
Many of the people I work with can see their patterns clearly but feel unsure how to move within them differently. They notice themselves adapting to others, second-guessing their instincts, or holding themselves to standards that feel exhausting. Even when life is fine, there’s often a quiet sense of being unmoored, like you’re functioning rather than feeling grounded.
My work begins by slowing things down enough to understand what’s happening beneath the surface and creating space to relate to yourself with more clarity and care.
What guides my work
I’m drawn to a slower, more reflective way of doing therapy because I’ve seen how much people change when they feel genuinely met rather than evaluated or directed. Many of the clients who come to me are already thoughtful and self-aware. What’s often missing isn’t effort or insight, but the opportunity to explore their experiences at a pace that allows deeper understanding to take root.
I pay close attention to the ways you may have learned to adapt in order to stay connected, safe, or understood. These adaptations are rarely random or wrong, they’re meaningful responses to earlier experiences. Much of our work involves gently exploring how the past continues to shape the present: how certain ways of thinking, relating, or reacting once made sense, and how these responses may now be contributing to anxiety, disconnection, or self-criticism. When these patterns are met with curiosity rather than judgment, people often find that something begins to loosen.
Therapy with me is a relational process that unfolds through careful attention, honesty, and curiosity over time. Rather than offering answers, I focus on helping you develop a clearer, more trusting relationship with your own inner experience. This inner understanding tends to bring relief, not because anything is forced to change but because you’re no longer fighting or overriding parts of yourself. As the connections between past and present become clearer, many people find they relate to themselves with more compassion, steadiness, and trust. From that place, change emerges naturally and healing becomes something that unfolds rather than something you have to achieve.
To me, the work of therapy is like tending a garden together. It’s not about self help or making one big transformation that changes things once and for all. Sometimes it’s taking out flowers you don’t like and replacing them with ones you prefer. Other times, it’s weeding out thick spiky thorns and digging up buried rocks so we can start planting. And sometimes it’s noticing that you have everything you like but it’s just not flourishing, so we need to dig down and address deeper, more fundamental issues in the soil.
I’ve walked this path myself
I’m drawn to the places where experience is hard to name: where grief doesn’t resolve neatly, anxiety doesn’t have a single cause, and questions about identity and direction don’t resolve. Much of what brings people to therapy lives in these in-between spaces where things feel unfinished, contradictory, or quietly heavy.
In my work, I pay close attention to what’s easy to overlook: the pause before you answer, the way a feeling shifts as you speak it aloud, the moments you go quiet or feel unsure. These subtle experiences often carry important information about how you’ve learned to relate to yourself and to others, and about what you’ve had to hold or adapt to over time.
Rather than trying to make experiences fit into tidy explanations, we spend time staying with what’s present. We remain curious about how past relationships, losses, and belief systems continue to shape the present, allowing meaning to emerge gradually rather than being imposed. For some people, this work naturally touches spiritual or existential questions. For others, it remains grounded in emotional, relational, and somatic experience.
What matters most is that your inner life is taken seriously. Through careful attention and shared reflection, what once felt confusing or isolating often begins to feel more coherent and human which opens space for relief and change without being pushed or forced.
Experience and Education
I hold a Master’s degree in Marital and Family Therapy from Western Seminary and am licensed in California as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #119280).
My clinical work is informed by both formal training and years of experience sitting with people in moments of grief, transition, and emotional complexity. I’m attentive to the ways personal history, loss, identity, and meaning shape how people relate to themselves and to others.
My training includes narrative and relational approaches, grief and trauma work, mindfulness-based therapies, and work with individuals impacted by loss, anxiety, chronic stress, and identity-related concerns. I have additional experience supporting therapists, first responders, veterans, and individuals navigating the effects of trauma and moral injury.
I work from an affirming, non-pathologizing lens. Conversations around spirituality, faith, sexuality, and existential questions are welcomed when they’re meaningful to your life and experience.
If this way of working resonates, you’re welcome to reach out. You don’t need to know exactly what you want or where things will lead—only that you’re curious about understanding yourself more fully. A consultation is simply a chance to meet and see whether working together feels like a good fit.