About me

I'm a Lost Coast off-gridder turned city gal and a political activist turned psychotherapist.

I'm mixed Chinese and Russian Jewish, second-generation, and from a working-class background. I've spent much of my life navigating multiple worlds, negotiating the tension between belonging and being myself, and questioning the expectations we're asked to live by.

These experiences have shaped my curiosity about who we become through our families, cultures, relationships, and the worlds we inhabit – and who we might be beyond the roles we've learned to play.

Lived experience

The deaths of my mother and brother have been among the most formative experiences of my life. They've brought me into an ongoing relationship with grief, mortality, and the underworld of being human: the places where our familiar ways of understanding the world fall apart, and where we have to find our way without a map.

My own life has also brought me into questions of identity, belonging, perfectionism, embodiment, and intimacy. I've spent a lot of time thinking about the tension between adapting to others and learning to trust myself, and about what it means to build a life that feels genuinely our own.

I bring these experiences into my work with humility, alongside my professional training, ongoing learning, and supervision. I know that each person's story is their own.

My background & training

I earned my master's degree in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, after graduating cum laude from UC Berkeley in 2013, where I studied environmental justice.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent a decade working at the intersections of technology and social change, including social justice, organizing, and leadership. That chapter of my life continues to shape my interest in how our inner lives are influenced by the systems and communities we live within.

My clinical training includes Gestalt psychotherapy, depth-oriented traditions, transpersonal explorations, and somatics. I practice with the Center for Mindful Psychotherapy and work under the supervision of Gieve Patel, LMFT.

Beyond the therapy room

I'm sensitive, love to laugh, nibble on chocolate chips, read and write, walk with my partner and dog, and nerd out on astrology. I have a soft spot for questions that don't have easy answers, conversations that wander somewhere unexpected, and the small, ordinary things that make a life.

Come as you are

You don't need to know exactly what you're looking for before we talk. Maybe you're navigating a loss, feeling caught between different versions of yourself, struggling to meet everyone's expectations, or sensing that something about your life needs to change.

We can start wherever you are.

I offer a free 15-minute consultation so we can get a sense of whether working together might be a good fit. There's room for your questions, too.