Let’s get to the heart of what’s happening.
I work with couples and individuals who want more than help managing the problem on the surface.
Together, we slow things down enough to understand the patterns underneath: how you learned to protect yourself, what happens when connection feels threatened, what keeps repeating despite your best intentions, and what may need to change for something different to become possible.
My psychotherapy practice is relational, depth-oriented, and active. I support couples navigating conflict, betrayal, emotional distance, resentment, and uncertainty about repair, as well as individuals working through attachment patterns, relational grief, self-abandonment, and major life transitions.
I see clients in person in San Francisco and online throughout California.
Couples Therapy
How do two people stay in love without one of them disappearing?
If you’re dealing with betrayal, silence, recurring arguments, or simply sensing that something between you isn’t working, couples therapy gives us room to slow the pattern down and understand what it may be protecting.
Together, we look beyond the surface conflict to attachment, past hurts, family history, protective habits, and places where responsibility, effort, or power may have become uneven.
Some couples come wanting to repair what has been broken. Others are unsure whether repair is still possible. Therapy offers a place to tell the truth about what is happening, understand the patterns between you, and clarify what meaningful change will require.
I typically meet with couples for 75-minute sessions, with longer sessions when clinically appropriate. Most couples begin weekly so the work has enough continuity to deepen.
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Relationship Intensives
Sometimes the work needs more room.
Sometimes a weekly session isn’t the right container for the work.
A relationship intensive offers an extended block of focused time to understand the patterns between you, stay with what emerges, and work more deeply without having to stop just as something important is beginning to unfold.
Intensives may be especially useful after a significant rupture or betrayal, when a couple feels deeply stuck, when an important decision needs sustained attention, or when weekly therapy has begun to feel fragmented.
They can also be a good fit for couples whose work, travel, caregiving, or irregular schedules make consistent weekly therapy difficult. Physicians, founders, shift workers, frequent travelers, parents, and others with unpredictable calendars may find it easier to protect a larger block of time and give the relationship their full attention.
Intensives are offered when clinically appropriate and may be incorporated into ongoing therapy or used as a focused intervention.
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Individual Psychotherapy
You’re not codependent. You were trained to abandon yourself.
You may be capable, thoughtful, and self-aware, but still find yourself doing too much in relationships, doubting yourself, seeking love from unavailable people, or feeling guilty when you ask for what you need.
Together, we explore what sits underneath these patterns: attachment, family roles, past hurts, trauma, gender, culture, and the ways you may have learned to preserve connection by hiding parts of yourself.
Many of the people I work with learned early to be strong, responsible, accommodating, high-functioning, or emotionally attuned to everyone else. Those capacities may have helped you survive or belong. They can also make it difficult to know what you need, trust your own perceptions, receive care, or stay connected to yourself when a relationship feels uncertain.
This work is about releasing shame, grieving what you’ve lost, and building a different relationship with yourself, one that lets you love deeply without shrinking, performing, or losing yourself.
We may work with anxious or avoidant attachment, over-functioning, self-abandonment, relational grief, betrayal, emotionally unavailable relationships, boundaries, desire, voice, self-trust, the impact of emotionally immature caregivers, and major relational or identity transitions.
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My Approach
Depth matters. So does the relationship between us.
I work relationally, which means I am not a distant or blank presence in the room. I am engaged, curious, and willing to name what I notice.
I pay attention to both the experiences you bring into therapy and what happens between us, because the therapeutic relationship itself can become a place to understand old patterns and practice new ways of relating.
My approach integrates somatic and psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment and trauma theory, Relational Life Therapy, feminist and liberation psychology, relational-cultural and relational psychoanalytic traditions, and the Enneagram when it is useful.
With couples, I pay particular attention to the relational system between you: the protective positions each partner takes, how those positions interact, where accountability belongs, and how family history, gender, culture, and power shape what happens inside the relationship.
With individuals, we explore not only what you do, but how that way of being became necessary. I am interested in the intelligence of our adaptations as well as the places where those same adaptations may now limit intimacy, freedom, desire, or connection to yourself.
I also make room for spirituality, meaning, ritual, altered states, and transpersonal experience when those dimensions are important to you. They are welcome here, but never imposed.
Fees
Individual Psychotherapy
$250 per 50-minute session
Available to California residents.
Couples Therapy
$410 per 75-minute session
Session length and frequency are determined according to the needs of the work.
Couples Intensives
Intensives are priced separately according to the format and length of the work.
I do not accept insurance. For clients with PPO plans, superbills are available to submit for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
Ready to Begin?
A free 15-minute consultation gives us a chance to talk briefly about what is bringing you in, answer practical questions, and get a sense of whether working together feels like a good fit.
If we decide to move forward, we’ll begin with an initial session and determine what structure will best support the work clinically. That may mean weekly therapy, longer sessions, or a relationship intensive when more concentrated time would be useful.
Still have questions?
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