Are you a first or second generation immigrant feeling overwhelmed and experiencing conflict around your own cultural values, beliefs, and traditions?

Are you finding yourself having unwanted thoughts, memories, or repeated nightmares about past traumatic experiences?

Are you a person of color and finding yourself feeling isolated or frustrated due to misunderstandings regarding multiple identities, such as racial/ethnic, sexual, and gender?

​With so many responsibilities and commitments, it can be challenging to make time for ourselves to reflect and think about our life choices. At times, we may overlook our mental wellbeing and how various difficulties are affecting us. My approach to psychotherapy is to create a safe space in which you can have time to heal and learn about yourself.
​I provide individual psychotherapy to adults, primarily from a psychodynamic perspective while also integrating cognitive-behavioral methods. With this approach, I will gently encourage you to speak freely, focus on bringing unresolved issues into your awareness, explore the origin of conflicted feelings and thoughts, and use the increased understanding to motivate yourself to make significant changes. With an emphasis on our therapeutic relationship, I work to develop a safe, nonjudgmental space. I strive to create a healing environment and view therapy as a guided discovery in which you can examine issues, engage in meaning-making, develop insight, and practice coping skills.

I specialize in addressing various challenges, such as depression, complex trauma, and concerns regarding racial/ethnic, sexual, and gender identities. Your identity is integral to this work and I view your issues within a cultural context. 

Specialties

Identity Exploration for 
First and Second Generation Immigrants

We have been sold the myth that the United States is a giant melting pot in which our cultural identities will blend together as a way to assimilate into society. For 1st and 2nd generation immigrants with marginalized identities, you can often feel like an unwelcome visitor.​

Processing and Healing
​Complex Trauma

Despite a traumatic event having occurred in the past, it can still feel very much present in your daily life. ​You might find yourself having unwanted thoughts or memories and reoccurring vivid images, such as flashbacks and nightmares, about details of past trauma.

Affirming Psychotherapy for
​LGBTQI+, People of Color

In an ideal world, everyone’s right to live a free and authentic life would be respected and protected. Unfortunately, LGBTQIA, people of color, live in societies in which certain cultural identities are more privileged than our own diverse identities.​