As a psychotherapist, I strongly believe in each human being’s ability to overcome obstacles, grow through experience, and realize their full potential. My approach is highly influenced by psychoanalytic, attachment, mindfulness theories, as well as the Logotherapy concepts developed by Viktor Frankl, specifically the search for a life’s meaning as the central human motivational force—these guide me quite a lot personally and professionally. My thoughts, values, meaning-making and seeking, and perspectives as a clinician, supervisor and professor are additionally informed by my own multiple immigration experiences of adaptation along the non-linearity of life itself as well as embodiment of different languages and cultures in my own lived experience.

To elaborate further on how I view the integration of those experiences into my practice: I highly value the depth of one’s subjective experience, knowing there is more than one truth and certainly myriad dimensions to one’s lived experience. I am interested in and honor the variety of identities that people hold at all times, while also recognizing that most of the time we stand between spaces in an interplay between various parts and identities. That process is often not something we even pause to recognize unless we make space for it in therapy or ongoing mindfulness practices.

I am a warm and energetic professor, supervisor, and clinician, prioritizing a strength-oriented and goal-focused approach in everything I do. My expertise comes from over a decade of experience working in community mental health, EAP, private practice, mental health tech and startup environments both as a clinician and a supervisor.