MFT · LPCC · SAN FRANCISCO
MFT · LPCC · SAN FRANCISCO
Rather than focusing primarily on what’s broken or what’s wrong, strength-based therapy starts from the premise that you already have resilience, skills, values, and life experience that can be resources in your healing. My job is to help you identify and build on those strengths — not to fix you, but to help you access more of what’s already there.
This includes your cultural heritage and history. The traditions, values, stories, and ways of navigating the world that come from your background are not incidental to the work — they are part of it. Who your people are and where you come from is a source of strength we can draw on together.
Midlife, retirement, career change, relationship transitions, an empty nest, a health diagnosis — or simply the slow recognition that the life you built no longer fits. I help people move through change with intention rather than just surviving it.
Burnout often happens to people who have worked incredibly hard for a very long time. I work with high-functioning people who have lost touch with what they actually want, who they are outside of their productivity, and what a sustainable life looks like for them.
Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer clients is not a specialty I added — it is woven into the fabric of my practice and my life. I understand the particular terrain: coming out at any age, internalized shame, family rejection, relationship dynamics, chosen family, community, and the specific grief and resilience that comes…
Are you navigating the impact of racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, or other forms of oppression? The chronic stress of discrimination — microaggressions, systemic barriers, erasure — has real psychological consequences. It is not in your head. And it belongs in the therapy room. I am committed to holding the full complexity of your experience, including…
To be human is to be affected by what is happening around us. The stress of political and social upheaval — the uncertainty, the grief, the anger, the fear — is real and takes a real toll. It is not weakness. It means you are paying attention. It means you are human. We can explore…