In therapy, I use storytelling, metaphor, creativity, expressive arts, somatic awareness, humor, and play to help give shape and language to what has been hard to name. My practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming, relational, depth-oriented, and direct. I work through a psychoanalytic lens while drawing from evidence-based trauma approaches, narrative therapy, expressive arts, culturally grounded care, and traditional and practical wisdom. My own experience as a refugee and third culture kid informs my attention to the ways family history, culture, loss, adaptation, and belonging shape our relationships and sense of self. I believe therapy can move beyond symptom management toward deeper understanding, integration, repair, and a greater sense of agency.

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Many of the experiences that bring people to therapy interrupt connection, trust, safety, and the ability to feel recognized by ourselves or others. Therapy, groups, and community can all be parts of the work of repair. This means making room for what has felt fragmented, shameful, unspeakable, or too much, while also creating space for humor, play, imagination, awe, wonder, mutuality, nature, warmth, and shared experience, so aliveness can be remembered, embodied, and practiced again.​​​