Warm Hearted Listener.
Insightful Guide.
Healing Partner.
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I have always connected to the world through my listening. Listening is much more than attending to sounds, words, and body movements. Fully embodied listening engages all the senses with awakened intuition, empathy, and presence. Like surrendering into a favorite piece of music, embodied listening can elicit profound movement in the mind/body/spirit, which together make up the psyche.
My clinical training has allowed me to develop this. I earned my degree in Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. I was trained in clinical practice at The Maple Counseling Center, The New Visions Foundation, and Counseling Partners of Los Angeles. Post-licensure, I completed certificate training in Hakomi, a somatic method that utilizes mindfulness to access deep listening in the body. |
But my reverence and curiosity for the human experience in all its beauty, suffering, and questioning started much earlier in life. Music was my first inspiration. Music awakened my senses, my spirit, and my intellect.
I grew up playing the piano, singing in school choruses, and listening to all manner of folk-rock and classical music. I felt most connected to life when the thrum of the piano strings vibrated against the soundboard of my chest. I felt most enlivened when immersed in an ocean of choral harmony. I felt most understood when song lyrics spoke to my unspoken and unheard longings and dreams. And then there was the exquisite language of music theory to give it shape and meaning. The study of music theory inspired my intellect and revealed the essential connection between structure and artistry.
This translates into my therapeutic practice.
I believe that theoretical structure is essential to deep insight and understanding in the therapeutic process. I also believe that such knowledge can remain disembodied in the realm of ideas without lived experience to vest the knowledge with its true healing potency.
My therapeutic practice is informed by theoretical knowledge of attachment, object relations, depth psychology, psychodynamic, person-centered, somatic, and cognitive-behavioral frameworks. The artistry comes through the spontaneous improvisation of deep, heartfelt, resonant listening. The invitation to open a dialogue with the parts of one’s self that have been buried, denied, injured—and with the parts of one’s self that are releasing, evolving, and emerging.
I continually enact this process in my own life. I believe this is essential.
The content of my story is not important. What I deem most important for you to know about me is that I live an examined life. This has been a lifelong calling—to untangle myself, find inner peace, and live a life commensurate with my authentic truths.
To come home to my real Self.
I am inspired to help you come home to yours.
I grew up playing the piano, singing in school choruses, and listening to all manner of folk-rock and classical music. I felt most connected to life when the thrum of the piano strings vibrated against the soundboard of my chest. I felt most enlivened when immersed in an ocean of choral harmony. I felt most understood when song lyrics spoke to my unspoken and unheard longings and dreams. And then there was the exquisite language of music theory to give it shape and meaning. The study of music theory inspired my intellect and revealed the essential connection between structure and artistry.
This translates into my therapeutic practice.
I believe that theoretical structure is essential to deep insight and understanding in the therapeutic process. I also believe that such knowledge can remain disembodied in the realm of ideas without lived experience to vest the knowledge with its true healing potency.
My therapeutic practice is informed by theoretical knowledge of attachment, object relations, depth psychology, psychodynamic, person-centered, somatic, and cognitive-behavioral frameworks. The artistry comes through the spontaneous improvisation of deep, heartfelt, resonant listening. The invitation to open a dialogue with the parts of one’s self that have been buried, denied, injured—and with the parts of one’s self that are releasing, evolving, and emerging.
I continually enact this process in my own life. I believe this is essential.
The content of my story is not important. What I deem most important for you to know about me is that I live an examined life. This has been a lifelong calling—to untangle myself, find inner peace, and live a life commensurate with my authentic truths.
To come home to my real Self.
I am inspired to help you come home to yours.