My own journey towards becoming a psychotherapist and analyst began in 1998, when I had the privilege of supporting sexual trauma survivors as a volunteer at the Jerusalem Rape Crisis Center. It was at this incredible grassroots organization that I first encountered the profound healing potential that opens up when one person listens to another and witnesses their truth. I learned how rich, difficult and beautiful this healing journey can be, and have felt honored ever since to accompany people of all genders along this path. 

I hold a Masters’ degree in Clinical Psychology with Social-Clinical focus from the New College of California, and a California license as a Marriage and Family Therapist. I am a certified analyst member at the San Francisco Jung Institute. I lecture at Jungian societies and consult to other psychotherapists.

Of the many theories I have learned and that have shaped and informed me, I mostly draw from Jungian, psychoanalytic and relational ways of working, as well as self-psychology, social justice and feminist frameworks. This means that I am deeply interested in the human unconscious as manifest in dreams, fantasies, religious and spiritual feelings, and in the ways our inner lives manifest in our bodies. And, I am equally interested in the interpersonal world, where our ethical calling towards kindness, care, consciousness and justice manifest in the actions we take in the greater community. 

My professional and volunteer work brought me into a variety of community organizations that enriched and inspired my work. My community work focused on working towards responding to and preventing sexual violence, on supporting the empowerment and well being of sex workers, supporting parents in developing cohesive and healthy families, and on supporting women of varying class, social and cultural backgrounds in living empowered and meaningful lives. Some of the organizations I have worked for and grew within have been:

• St. James Infirmary

• Lyon-Martin Health Center

• UCSF Women's HIV Program

• UCSF Infant-Parent Program

• TALK Line Family Support Center

• Blue Oak therapy Center

• Child Trauma Training Institute

In my current work as a Jungian analist in private practice, I continue to uphold my commitment to social justice, to challenging the given structures of power, to peer support networks and to harm reduction.