Who I Work With

The people who actually end up in this room.

I could list depression and anxiety here. But a diagnosis tells you what you're carrying. It doesn't tell you who you should carry it with.

So here are five kinds of people who tend to find me, and what I actually know about their particular terrain. Read for recognition, not description.

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Ten years in private practice LMFT #99274 Online anywhere in California

01 · Artists & Makers

The well you make things from is also the one that floods.

I didn't come to this work through a textbook. I came through touring in hardcore bands out of the back of a van, selling 7-inch records and handmade zines, and a stint as a ceramicist that paid for my first philosophy classes. I know what it's like when your worth gets soldered to your output, and when the thing you love making turns into the thing you're afraid to touch.

Writers, musicians, designers, founders, anyone whose work draws from a well that occasionally runs dry, floods without warning, or gets dammed up by something you can't quite name. This is you if you've built a real body of work and still feel like a fraud standing next to it, or if the "block" isn't actually a block. It's grief, or fear, or an old story about what you're allowed to want.

Men, Later in Life

Most men don't come in and say the actual thing. They say they're stressed, or the marriage feels flat, or they can't sleep. Underneath it is usually something more specific: a body that stopped feeling like theirs, a confidence that used to be automatic and now has to be manufactured, a version of masculinity they were handed and never got to question.

I built a structured program for men in their forties and beyond working through exactly this, moving from anxiety-driven performance to something more grounded and embodied. Breath, belief, nervous system, body. This is you if you're done managing the symptom and ready to look at what's underneath it.

Humans in Transition

Coming out, transitioning, or quietly unsure which box you're supposed to check. None of it arrives with instructions. The people around you usually mean well and still ask the wrong questions, or worse, go carefully silent instead.

I work with gay, trans, and gender- and sexuality-questioning clients at every stage of that, including the long stretch before you have language for it. This is you if you're tired of managing everyone else's comfort with your process, and want a room where the process itself is the point.

If you've read this far and something landed, that's usually the signal. The call is free and it goes both ways.

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"Plenty of therapists will tell you that you don't have to do this alone. That's comforting, and it's empty. What actually helps is finding someone who already knows the terrain you're standing in."

Teens Becoming Someone

Most teenagers who end up in a therapist's office got sent there by an adult who ran out of ideas. I don't run that kind of session. I meet teens as whole people already in the middle of becoming someone, not as problems for the grown-ups to manage or feelings to medicate into silence.

This is you, or your kid, if the usual approach, sit still, talk about your feelings, already failed once.

Couples Tired of the Same Fight

Every couple has one fight. It just changes clothes each time. I'm less interested in refereeing the argument than in what it's actually about, the unmet want sitting underneath the complaint.

This is you if you're exhausted by round eleven of a fight you've had ten times before, and you're ready to understand it instead of just surviving it.

Everyone is welcome here. I work with people of all races, faiths, body sizes, abilities, gender identities, and sexual orientations. LGBTQ+, kink, poly, and non-traditional relationships are affirmed here. If your situation doesn't fit neatly into any of the five above, that doesn't rule you out. Say so on the call.

Fit

I'd rather you know now.

It would be easy to write this page so it sounds agreeable to everyone who lands on it. That's how people end up six sessions into the wrong room. Here's the honest version instead.

Worth your time if

You've already done the reading. You know your patterns. You're not looking to have them explained to you, you're looking to finally move them.
You want a therapist with a point of view. I'll tell you what I actually think. You'll always know where you stand with me.
You're willing to be uncomfortable for a while. The useful part is usually sitting right next to the part you'd rather skip.

Probably not, if

You want someone neutral. I'm not, and I won't pretend to be.
You want a standing hour to vent. That has its uses. It isn't what I do, and I'll keep asking what you intend to do about it.
You need to use insurance. I'm out-of-network. I provide superbills for reimbursement, but the fee comes out of pocket first.

Why me

You're the kind of person who checks.

Ten years in private practice. I supervise and train associate therapists toward licensure, and I've led workshops teaching other clinicians how to work with psychedelics. Before any of that: a philosophy degree, a nonprofit built on experiential learning, and a scholarly podcast.

I've also been writing about this work publicly for years. Essays, poems, arguments with myself. You can read a decade of how I actually think before you ever pick up the phone, which is a fairer test than any testimonial I could put on this page.

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What the twenty minutes actually is

You tell me what's going on. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person for it, and if I'm not, I'll usually know who is.

No intake paperwork, no obligation. We talk about the fee on that call, or you can look at it first and save us both the suspense.

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Recognize yourself in more than one of these?

Most people do. Twenty minutes, free, no obligation. If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.

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