I work through a psychodynamic lens, with attention to the ways early relationships, family history, culture, loss, adaptation, and belonging shape the self over time. My practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming, depth-oriented, direct, and culturally attentive. I draw from trauma therapy, narrative therapy, somatic work, expressive arts, and culturally grounded care, but I do not approach therapy as a script or a protocol. I use these tools to help clients understand patterns, conflicts, defenses, desires, and the parts of experience that have been difficult to name. My own experience as a refugee and third culture kid informs my attention to displacement, identity, inheritance, and the pressures people face to adapt, survive, perform, or belong. I believe therapy can move beyond symptom management toward deeper understanding, integration, discernment, 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.​​​