Are you looking for an experienced, non-judgmental therapist who will respect and genuinely seek to understand your perspective? Someone who will help you work safely through significant challenges, gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your life circumstances, and resolve those emotions and behaviors that get in your way?

With a warm and empathic style, I provide individual and couples/family therapy to adults and adolescents dealing with a wide range of life stressors and mental health concerns including:

• Anxiety and depression

• Alcohol and drug use, whether your goal is abstinence or moderation

• Stress, restlessness, or "feeling stuck" in your life

• Relationship problems

• Cultural adjustment and identity conflicts

• Domestic violence and sexual assault

• Difficulty managing the confusion around sexual orientation and cultural, family and religious expectations

• Unresolved impact of histories of sexual/physical abuse, neglect, violence, torture, war, trauma

• Family abandonment or rejection

My treatment philosophy emphasizes the use of empirically validated approaches that have been shown to be effective in randomized clinical trials, including trauma-informed cognitive-behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing, integrated with a psychodynamic, attachment-based approach.