My clinical training was completed at Smith College School for Social Work where I received my M.S.W. in Clinical Social Work, and at Stanford University’s Vaden Health Center’s Counseling and Psychological Services where I completed a post-graduate Fellowship. Additionally, I was awarded a year-long Fellowship with the American Psychoanalytic Association. To further deepen my practice, I am currently completing a two-year Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (PPTP) at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Informed by psychodynamic theory, I explore underlying emotions and beliefs that affect a client's mood and behavior. With a focus in treating anxiety, depression and interpersonal challenges, I also implement interventions informed by empirically-supported, cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavioral therapy. In addition to my private practice, I am a staff clinician at Kaiser Permanente’s Eating Disorder Intensive Outpatient Program (Redwood City). There, I work with individuals and families to understand and treat disordered eating.

Prior to joining Kaiser, I completed a rotation as a psychiatric social worker at the University of California, San Francisco’s (UCSF) Department of Psychiatry. There, I provided psychiatric assessments, solution-focused treatment, and discharge planning to adult clients on six, cultural-focus inpatient psychiatry units.

Clinical Training Sites

Kaiser Permanente, Department of Psychiatry, Redwood City

Population:	Individuals and couples (ages 22 – 70)
Areas of Focus:	Relationship difficulties, mood disorders, gender and sexual identity exploration, life changes/career transitions.
Responsibilities:	Solution-focused and long-term outpatient psychotherapy. Psychosocial assessments for individuals and couples and collaborated with medical doctors in and out of the Kaiser system as needed. Additionally, I completed a 3-month rotation in the Intensive Outpatient Program, a patient stabilization program.

San Mateo County Mental Health, School-Based Mental Health Team

Population:	Children (ages 4-18) and families
Areas of Focus:	ADHD, Pervasive Developmental Spectrum Disorders , Social Anxiety, Childhood Mood disorders, Developmental difficulties.
Responsibilities:	As part of a school-based country mental health team, I provided psychosocial assessments and individual, group and family therapy for identified at-risk children in public elementary, middle and high school settings throughout San Mateo County. I developed individualized treatment plans with special education teachers, child psychiatrists, and school psychologists, and licensed mental health providers.

Post-graduate Fellowships

Vaden Health Center Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS), Stanford University, CA

Population:	Stanford University undergraduate and graduate students (ages 17 – 45)
Areas of Focus:	LGBTQ concerns: coming out, sexual and gender identity exploration, mood disorders, eating disorders, career planning, stage of life transitions, perfectionism, procrastination, academic struggles. Provided brief and long-term therapy to undergraduate and graduate students. Offered individual, couples and group therapy.
Responsibilities:	Provided brief and long-term therapy to Stanford University undergraduate and graduate students. Offered individual, couples, and group therapy.

American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY

Areas of Focus:	Psychoanalytic principles, psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Responsibilities:	Under the mentorship of two trained psychoanalysts (M.D. and PhD/LCSW) I studied and explored the practical application of psychoanalytic principles to my therapeutic work with clients.