Therapist, Artist, and Fellow Human

As both a therapist and an active visual artist, I understand growth, insight, and change as processes that unfold over time, often in new and unexpected ways. My work is shaped by clinical training, contemplative and creative practice, and lived experience.

I often work well with thoughtful, sensitive, creative, or reflective people who may appear capable on the outside, while privately struggling with anxiety, self-criticism, grief, shame, or the feeling of not quite belonging.

My aim is to create a space that feels warm, curious, and attentive. I am there to meet you as a whole person, not just a set of symptoms or problems to solve.

If you’re interested in working together, schedule a free 20-minute phone call.

More About My Background and Training

My integrative approach is rooted in mindfulness, compassion-based therapy, and radical acceptance. I also draw from psychodynamic, feminist, relational, and secular Buddhist psychology. These frameworks inform my work, but the therapy itself is shaped in collaboration with you, the person in front of me.

Over time, this work can deepen from mindful awareness and acceptance into a form of radical love: the practice of meeting our experience with honesty, care, and courage.

Working as a therapist deeply engages my values and ethics around how I hope to live and serve. I have been on both sides of the therapy relationship and bring not only clinical skills and academic training, but also a shared understanding of the highs and lows of being human.

In addition to graduate degrees in counseling and art, I completed a two-year post-graduate fellowship in Contemplative Psychology. I am certified in Contemplative Care through the New York Zen Center, have provided care to patients at Brooklyn Hospital Center, and have trained in Buddhist Psychotherapy at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

I also have an ongoing, decades-long studio practice, a background in the 1990s underground Northwest music scene, and am a proud cat dad.

I have worked with a diverse range of clients across cultural, spiritual, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, sexualities, ages, and gender identities. My goal is to create a space that is caring, collaborative, and open.