A therapist who won't pretend to be neutral.

My fluency is in two disciplines: Narrative Therapy and Philosophical Taoism. Everything else — the punk, the art, twenty-some years in this city — isn't decoration. It's how I actually see people.

Narrative therapy says the problem is never the whole story, and usually it isn't even you — it's your conditioning, the training you were handed and never chose to examine. There's always a thread where you were already resourceful, already functioning. We find it and pull. Taoism says stop forcing: all energy has a correct course, and the work is pointing yours back toward it instead of waging war on your own nature.

What working together feels like

Not clinical. Not a blank screen nodding at you. Being a therapist isn't a call-in job where disconnected clients ramble for years and call it healing. Plenty of therapists say "you don't have to do this alone." Honestly? That's a hollow thing to say — comforting and empty. I'm in it with you, I'll tell you the truth, and I'm dead serious about your change. You'll always know where you stand with me.

I work with individuals, couples, and teens, in person in Los Angeles and virtually anywhere in California. People often come to me around anxiety, addiction, identity, relationships, grief, creative blocks, and the larger question of what a meaningful life even looks like.

Credentials & background

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in the State of California. I supervise a small team of associate therapists so that good care stays accessible. Outside the office you'll find me in record stores, on long walks, and deep in books that have no business being as comforting as they are.