I’ve spent my career working with people at the moment their old sense of self stops working.

I began my career working with adolescents, supporting them through the work of individuation, separating from their parents and developing an independent sense of self. Over time, I found myself drawn to working more directly with the parents themselves, and I came to see that fertility, pregnancy, and becoming a parent can transform a person as profoundly as adolescence once did.

That transformation is known as matrescence. The process of becoming a mother often brings identity shifts, disorientation, grief, growth, and a reorganization of how we understand ourselves and our place in the world. Today, I specialize in working with individuals navigating infertility, IVF and assisted reproduction, pregnancy loss, reproductive trauma, and the emotional complexities of pregnancy and early parenthood.

I came to this specialty through my own fertility journey and experience with pregnancy loss. I know what it is like to grieve something that most people around you cannot see and to continue showing up to your life while carrying it. That experience informs my work, but it does not define it.

I also know that no two journeys look the same. I will never assume I understand yours. What I bring is a deep familiarity with this terrain and a genuine commitment to understanding your experience of it, at your pace, on your terms.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW 78955) and Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional (PMH-C) based in West Los Angeles. I specialize in fertility, pregnancy loss, perinatal mental health, and trauma, and I provide therapy both in person and virtually throughout California.

I bring more than a decade of clinical experience across community mental health, hospital, school, and private practice settings, including work at the UCLA Rape Treatment Center. I am a Certified EMDR Therapist trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR through the Parnell Institute, with advanced training through Postpartum Support International and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

Meaningful therapy begins with feeling understood. My goal is to create a space where every part of your experience, including the parts that feel difficult to explain to others, has room to be seen, explored, and understood.

Approach

My approach is integrative. I draw from multiple evidence based modalities and tailor the work to what you actually need rather than fitting you into a single framework.

I work at more than one level. Some of what we carry can be understood through conversation and reflection. Some of it lives deeper, in the body, in nervous system responses, in patterns that formed long before you had words for them. Real change often requires working at both levels.

The modalities I draw from include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, Attachment-Focused EMDR, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Together these approaches allow us to work cognitively, relationally, and somatically depending on what the moment calls for.

Above all, the relationship matters. Research consistently shows that the therapeutic relationship is one of the strongest predictors of outcomes in therapy. I take that seriously. The work we do together will be collaborative, honest, and grounded in genuine respect for your experience and your pace.