Welcome to my practice.
My predoctoral internship was at the Outpatient Counseling Clinic at Vista Del Mar Child & Family Services, a federally funded community mental health agency in Los Angeles serving a chronically underserved population. Vista Del Mar integrates psychodynamic and psychoanalytic work with more standard evidence based approaches. I saw children, adolescents, and young adults for individual therapy. As part of the agency's dynamic treatment model, each child's individual therapy was paired with weekly "collateral" sessions I held with parents and caregivers (without the child or adolescent present), to strengthen support, deepen mutual understanding, and foster more cohesive family functioning.
Before that, two years at Fairfax Behavioral Health in Kirkland, working with adults and adolescents in partial hospitalization. In my second year I trained in psychological assessment through a weekly case-based seminar led by a licensed clinical psychologist and the hospital's clinical director, focused primarily on projective measures (Rorschach and TAT) used to clarify diagnosis, support differential diagnosis within a short-term treatment frame, and inform treatment planning. My work with the MMPI extended that training as an area of independent academic interest. During the same year I facilitated two to three inpatient adolescent therapy groups a week.
Psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families ready to change the patterns that keep them stuck
Insurance:
I am an in-network provider with Premera, Regence Blue Shield, TRICARE, TriWest and Aetna insurances and all forms of insurance that offer out-of-network benefits.
I would be glad to work with people who would like to use health insurance to help cover therapy costs.
I offer individual psychotherapy for adolescents and adults. I also work with couples and families, where my approach is informed by family systems theory.
What to expect
We will start by looking at any urgent or immediate reasons you are seeking psychotherapy. It is essential the first 3-4 sessions allow you to get a sense of me, an understanding of what I can, and cannot offer and what it feels like when we are together in therapy. You can expect I will be curious to learn about your social and emotional development, any significant relationships or relational challenges, cultural experiences and anything else that is important for me to know about your past and present circumstances that can inform my conceptualization of who you are and what you hope to change.