psychoanalytic psychotherapy

If you find yourself experiencing recurrent symptoms and challenges, or relationships patterns that are causing you suffering, it can be liberating to address the underlying causes. Throughout my work with diverse clients, I observed that the unconscious repetitions of aversion, clinging, and reenactments of familiar/familial ways of being bind us in suffering. Utilizing a psychoanalytic approach to therapy, I can help you develop a deeper emotional self-knowledge, work through underlying psychological pain, and embrace growth and transformation.

I strive to facilitate a reflective and explorative environment where the unbearable can be held and truth can be spoken. During our initial sessions, we’ll pay closer attention to your current struggles and what’s motivating you to do psychological work. As therapy progresses, we’ll focus more on underlying causes. If you would like to inquire, we can schedule an introductory video call for both of us to ask questions and explore if this might be a good fit.

Since 2012, I've been practicing psychotherapy in outpatient settings and served individuals with diverse cultural, racial, and sexual identities.

Multicultural and bilingual elements of my identity, and a history of enduring ethnic discrimination and immigration, significantly inform how I listen to my clients, think through trauma and fragmentation with them.

The study of continental philosophy, Buddhism, Vedanta, and psychoanalytic theories has shaped the way I think about human experience, suffering, and transformation.

In addition to clinical work and education, I have experience with meditative practices and have training in mindfulness-based interventions. I utilize mindfulness and somatic awareness within individual and group therapy to cultivate greater capacity for introspection, insight, and affective tolerance.

License & Professional Affiliations

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist – LMFT 102145

Malpractice insurance with CPH and Associates.

Community membership with San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Community membership with Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

Membership with California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

Education & Training

Master of Arts in Counseling, Webster University, Irvine, CA.

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, California State University, Fullerton, CA.

2024 - 2025 SFCP Yearlong Program “Inventions of Madness: Grappling with Turmoil”, San Francisco, CA.

2022 - 2023  SFCP Yearlong Program "Experiencing the Other: External, Internal, and Socio-Cultural", San Francisco, CA.

2017 - 2018  Early Career Case Conference, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, East Bay locations.

2016 - 2017  Applied Lacanian Thought in a Children’s Clinic, Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, Berkeley, CA.

2012 - 2015  Psychodynamic Psychotherapy training and practice, Living Success Center, Costa Mesa, CA.

2013  Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Center for Integrative Medicine, UC, Irvine.

2012  Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Mind-Body Medicine: A 7-Day Professional Training by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli, Omega Institute, Mt. Madonna, CA.

2008, 2011 & 2016  Vipassana Meditation ten day courses, S.N. Goenka, multiple sites in CA.