I have worked in the mental health industry since 2017 primarily in the residential treatment center setting with intimate client interaction and have recently transitioned to a clinical role. I have experience working with multiculturally diverse individuals, families, and intimate partners of all ages. I have clinical experience working with anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief and loss (of all sorts), and challenges with identity. I am passionate about learning about you, what brings you to the therapeutic space and being an empathetic compassionate guide on this journey called life.

I received my master’s degree in clinical psychology specializing in marriage and family therapy at Antioch University in Culver City. Prior to the master’s program, I received my undergraduate degree in anthropology with a minor in Philosophy at University of Massachusetts in Boston and my associate degree in the same disciplines at Cerritos College. I am the youngest child of immigrant parents growing up and being raised in Southern California, primarily in Long Beach, and lived in Boston for two years to complete my undergraduate degree during the Boston Marathon bombing and the worst hurricane at that time. I want to take a moment to acknowledge that despite my expertise in psychology, I am still a human being. Human beings are imperfect and make mistakes; my unique life experience up until this point impacts and may skew my perception of things. I believe that discrimination, and all of the -isms, xenophobia, and homophobia, unfortunately, exist in this shared reality we are experiencing and I believe that not every therapist can serve every client.

With that being said, I approach therapy as just human beings having a conversation and experiencing each other in a shared space. We combine our shared expertise: your expertise on your own lived experience and my knowledge in psychology. You are seeking mental health support at this time because there is something you want to change. I genuinely believe everyone is doing the best that they can, and if we were able to be doing better, then that would be the lived experience instead. So I provide the space and give the opportunity to go on this journey together. I cannot give you all of the answers, but I can certainly provide guidance toward them. I believe that what one perceives as “healthy” is different for every individual because we are all experiencing our own unique lived experience as an embodied human being on this planet. There are different narratives and experiences that contribute to the person you are today, and I want to learn all of them and to help figure out what changes need to be made or what changes cannot be made and what we can do about them so that you have a more fulfilling life moving forward.