As someone who was diagnosed with a lifelong illness at 23 and has experienced chronic pain for twenty years, I can say that it is often through my greatest suffering that I have come to know also as well the ecstatic joys of aliveness.  In my experience, it is in facing our challenges and limitations that we often find our deepest sense of resilience, purpose, and wholeness.  Through this connection with our own and each other's heartaches (and mind-aches and body-aches) we can tap into the wellspring of life-force that allows us to create rich and meaningful lives. 

Raised in the family context of both artist and engineer - spiritualist and atheist – my journey has been one of integrating opposite and seemingly contradictory realities into a more cohesive, empowered sense of myself and the world.  I am an ongoing student in learning to navigate my shadows as well as gifts, and continually getting schooled on how to co-create with reality based on its own terms (hint: not without a sense of humor!).  

I am passionate about the business of waking up and being of service - together - in a world that desperately needs us to do so.  Before entering the field of psychotherapy, my studies and work have taken me from arts school in New York City, to non-profit, social justice and activism work in Southern California, Southern Arizona, and Ecuador, to mountaineering, bilingual tour guiding, and teaching English as a Foreign language in Argentina.  Following, I spent years studying Eastern and earth-based wisdom traditions, and teaching Anusara yoga, through which I learned and shared practices in how to come home to oneself through embodied inquiry. 

Through my graduate studies in Integral Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and subsequent clinical work and training I have developed a solid (and ever-evolving) theoretical framework and range of skills that support me in being of service to you as your therapist and guide.

I look forward to collaborating with you in cultivating a life in which you thrive.