online throughout California | based in los angeles
Therapy for experiences that are hard to put into words.
Art therapy gives us something outside of talk to notice, organize, and return to together.
Together, we can slow down what feels overwhelming and give it form through words, images, the body, and the therapeutic relationship.
Do you feel pulled between who you are, who others expect you to be, and what you are still trying to understand?
I work with people who have learned to move between worlds — family systems, cultures, identities, roles, or versions of themselves — without always feeling fully at home in any of them. Therapy can offer a carefully paced space to notice what has been carried, what has been protected, and what may be ready to take form.
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The past can shape how we move through the present — in our relationships, bodies, choices, creativity, and sense of belonging.
I am an art therapist, psychotherapist, adopted person, and artist. I specialize in working with adults who want to understand how the past continues to shape the present — especially around adoption, belonging, grief, trauma, identity, creativity, and family complexity.
You do not have to know exactly what to say before you begin. Curiosity, honesty, and a willingness to notice are enough places to start.
In Therapy, We May Make Room For…
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Greater Self-Understanding
Begin to understand how old patterns may still be shaping your relationships, body, creativity, and sense of self.
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A less divided relationship with yourself
Begin to separate what is yours from what others have expected, projected, or placed on you.
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Creative Expression
Give difficult feelings, memories, or patterns a form you can see, move, name, question, and return to.
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Renewed Resilience
Practice noticing what is happening in your body, emotions, and relationships before old patterns take over.
Creative, relational therapy for adults working through adoption, belonging, grief, trauma, family expectations, and the parts of experience that language does not always reach.
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Adoption-competent therapy makes room for the whole picture: adoptive family, biological family, reunion, loss, loyalty, culture, anger, love, and the questions that do not resolve neatly. I bring both clinical training and lived experience as a transracial Latina adoptee to this work. Learn more.
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Art therapy offers another way to work with what you are carrying — through images, materials, metaphor, movement, writing, and reflection. The focus is not on making “good” art. The process gives us something outside of talk to notice, return to, and work with together. Learn more.
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When clinically appropriate, EMDR can be integrated with preparation, resourcing, somatic awareness, and art therapy. Learn more.
How it works
Let’s see whether working together feels like a good fit.
You do not need to know exactly how to explain everything before reaching out. A consultation gives us a starting place.