Supervisor: Emily Brems, LMFT

Have you ever sensed that there is a truer, fuller version of your life just waiting to be lived and that unfinished stories from your past are quietly holding you back from it? That is the kind of work I am here for.

I enjoy working with individual, adults, and couples navigating life transitions, identity questions, burnout, and the weight of high expectations. I am especially drawn to AAPI and immigrant clients, LGBTQ+ individuals, and career-focused professionals.

My approach is integrative and depth-oriented, drawing on existential and psychodynamic frameworks, attachment theory, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). I also weave in motivational interviewing and mindfulness techniques. For couples work, I draw on foundational Gottman principles with a deep interest in how family history shapes communication and intimacy.

Before counseling, I earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018, studying how stress and trauma shape the brain, then spent years in nonprofit mental health policy work. My path to counseling has been anything but straightforward, and I think that is part of what allows me to sit with clients in the messier, harder to name parts of their own journeys.