Welcome to my practice.
I help individuals, couples and families who are motivated to change patterns and behaviors but who are frustrated, unsure where to turn and stuck.
During my predoctoral internship year at the Outpatient Counseling Clinic of Vista Del Mar Child & Family Services (VDM), a federally funded community mental health agency in Los Angeles, I gained valuable experience working with a chronically underserved client population. VDM is distinguished by its integration of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic treatment methods alongside traditional evidence-based psychological interventions. My responsibilities included providing one to three individual psychotherapy sessions per week to children, adolescents, and young adults. Additionally, I conducted weekly collateral sessions with parents and caregivers to enhance their understanding of their child's or adolescent's emotional and psychological development, build parental confidence, and strengthen family relationships.
Prior clinical training experience included two years at Fairfax Behavioral Health, a psychiatric hospital in Kirkland. At Fairfax I worked directly with adult and adolescent patients in the hospital’s partial hospitalization programs. During my second year I attended a weekly psychological testing seminar led by a licensed clinical psychologist and the hospital’s clinical director in addition to facilitating between two and three therapy groups per week with inpatient adolescents.
Insurance:
I am an in-network provider with Premera, Regence Blue Shield, TRICARE, TriWest and Aetna insurances and all forms of insurance that offer out-of-network benefits. I would be glad to answer any insurance or billing related questions.
I offer individual psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults. In addition to working with couples and families where my work is informed by family systems theory.
Begining or returning to therapy?
Together we will start by looking at any urgent or immediate reasons you are seeking psychotherapy. It is essential the first 3-4 sessions allow you to get a sense of me, an understanding of what I can, and cannot offer and what it feels like when we are together in therapy. You can expect I will be curious to learn about your social and emotional development, any significant relationships or relational challanges, cultural experiences and anything else that is important for me to know about your past and present circumstances that can inform my conceptualization of who you are and what you hope to change.