Clinical Background

I have spent the last ten years working in clinical roles with children, adolescents, adults, and families in a diversity of settings. I have worked with underserved and multi-stressed populations, suffering from systemic hardships. Through this work, I have learned to support individuals and families to develop self-empowerment to make meaningful change in their lives.

I worked at New-York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in New York City for five years, where I supported hospitalized children and families and co-facilitated a therapeutic sibling support program. I attended The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, where I earned my masters degree in Counseling Psychology in 2019. I served on the Parent Support Hotline at Family Paths, Inc. in Oakland, CA, where I trained extensively in trauma-informed practice and developed crisis intervention skills. I spent several years working as a school-based therapist in Richmond, CA through Bay Area Community Resources, where I provided psychotherapy and case-management to children, adolescents, and their families, and helped gain resources for families in need. I also ran social-emotional skills groups for children and adolescents and supported the school staff with social-emotional learning and trauma-informed teaching skills at public schools in Richmond and Berkeley. I have been working in private practice in the Bay Area since 2021, and I specialize in working with individual adults, students, families, children, and adolescents.

Throughout my experience and training, I have been devoted to understanding dimensions of race, power, and privilege within structural and systemic contexts. I have deeply examined areas of my privilege, namely my whiteness, socioeconomic position, and gender, through workshops, training, and ongoing consultation groups dedicated to anti-racism and privilege accountability. I am prepared to support you or your family while holding the significance of all areas of your identity and lived experience and I will create a space in which discussing all elements of your ‘self’ are welcome. I strive to serve those who do not have equal access to mental healthcare due to systemic barriers, including racism, classism, sexism, and gender discrimination, by providing inclusive, socially and culturally humble services and by offering sliding scale rates and taking student health insurance.