My path to becoming a therapist has been shaped by creativity, resilience, and a deep curiosity about the experiences that form our identities. After earning a BFA in Photography with a minor in Art Therapy, I moved to Los Angeles and spent nearly two decades working in film and television production. My background in photography, props, and set decoration taught me to understand how environment, composition, emotion, and story communicate what words sometimes cannot—an awareness that continues to influence how I work with clients today.

My own healing through SLAA, ACA, and experiential work helped me recognize how trauma, family systems, and protective patterns can shape a person’s relationship with themselves and others. After returning to graduate school in 2021, I began connecting the different chapters of my life and saw how each experience had prepared me to support others. Being displaced by the 2025 Altadena fires and later finding healing through equine-assisted work further strengthened my belief that recovery involves supporting the connection between mind, body, and spirit.

Today, I work as an associate marriage and family therapist and am completing my clinical hours toward licensure. Rooted in a relational and trauma-informed approach, I provide a compassionate space where clients can feel seen, heard, and accepted at their own pace. Attachment theory informs my understanding of how early relationships shape our nervous system, identity, sense of safety, and expectations of ourselves and others. Together, we explore how attachment experiences, generational trauma, culture, and societal influences continue to affect present-day relationships and patterns of self-protection.

My own life experiences inspired me to become a licensed therapist with a passion for working with developmental trauma and supporting those who have experienced prolonged, pervasive, or acute traumatic events. Knowledge became a source of empowerment, helping me understand how early conditioning and relational misattunement can disrupt our connection to ourselves, contributing to fragmentation and dissociation. This journey deeply informs my work as a therapist and my belief that healing becomes possible when we approach dissociation with curiosity rather than fear. Through experiential, bottom-up approaches, I help clients reconnect with their bodies, integrate fragmented experiences, and cultivate the safety, self-trust, and inner balance needed to live with greater presence and choice.