I identify as a first generation Filipinx immigrant with a multicultural background. I specialize in helping my patients recover from chronic stress and difficult childhood experiences. My therapeutic style is warm, thoughtful, direct and unhurried.

In my practice, I honor and center the spiritual tradition of the indigenous Pilipinx Babaylan who are the original psychotherapists, healers, sages and priestesses of my people. 

I earned my Master’s degree at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco where I trained in Integral Counseling Psychology - a holistic mind, body and relational approach to psychology and wellbeing. The foundation of my clinical training is in mindfulness and existential therapy from Church Street Integral Counseling Center.

To support and care for my work and process, I engage in ongoing supervision, case consultation, trainings, advocacy and my own personal psychotherapy. In addition to my full-time private practice, I serve as a school-based counselor at a public elementary school in Oakland.

Prior to becoming a therapist, I was involved in the arts and non-profit sectors for ten years where I worked closely with visual artists, creatives and Asian women-identified professionals & entrepreneurs.