I’m a licensed psychotherapist (LMFT 160254) with a multicultural background. I have a particular interest in helping my patients recover from chronic stress, family dysfunction and difficult experiences in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood. My therapeutic style is warm, thoughtful, capacious and unhurried.

I obtained my Master’s degree at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco where I studied Integral Counseling Psychology - a holistic, mind-body-relational approach to psychology and wellbeing. The foundation of my clinical training is in existential therapy and mindfulness from Church Street Integral Counseling Center. I carry and honor the spiritual tradition of the indigenous Pilipinx Babaylan who are the original psychotherapists - healers, sages and priestesses - of my people. 

Since 2021, I have treated adults, adolescents, and children in schools, community clinics and independent practice. To support and care for my work and process, I engage in ongoing case consultation, reading groups, training, advocacy and my own long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

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, painters, creatives and Asian professionals & entrepreneurs.