A steady, relational approach to the patterns that shape your life and relationships.
I am a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist in Los Angeles. My work is relationship-focused, with couples navigating infidelity, recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, and breakdowns in trust, and with individuals working through the relationship patterns, communication struggles, recovery-related concerns, or transitions that brought them here.
How I think about the work
Therapy often begins with the visible problem: the affair, the fight, the silence, the breakup, the relapse, or the decision that suddenly feels urgent. Those problems matter. They also tend to sit inside larger patterns that can be difficult to recognize while you are living through them.
My role is to help slow the pattern down enough that you can see what is happening. From there, the work becomes more honest and useful: naming the hurt, understanding the protective moves, and practicing a different way to respond when the stakes feel high.
Couples therapy focus
I work with thoughtful, motivated couples who are willing to look directly at what is not working. Some couples are trying to repair after a major rupture. Some are stuck in cycles of criticism, defensiveness, withdrawal, or escalation. Some still love each other, but feel alone in the relationship.
The work is not about assigning blame or pretending everything can be fixed quickly. It is about creating enough clarity and emotional traction to make better decisions together.
Individual therapy
I work with individuals who want to understand the relationship patterns, communication habits, or emotional disconnection shaping their lives. Some are navigating separation, dating, parenting, sexuality, recovery, shame, or a major life transition. Others know they keep making the same move under stress, such as shutting down, overfunctioning, appeasing, controlling, or pulling away, and want more choice.
Individual therapy is not simply couples therapy without the partner. It gives us room to explore your history, protective strategies, values, and responsibilities while keeping the work connected to how you actually live and relate.
How I work
Direct, warm, and focused on what happens between people.
I tend to be active in the room. I listen closely, interrupt patterns when needed, and help name what is happening beneath anger, distance, defensiveness, withdrawal, or overexplaining.
My style is grounded, collaborative, and attachment-informed. I care about insight, but I also care about whether the conversation starts to change.
