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Individual Therapy
Anxiety, burnout, and disconnection are real. And, they are also often symptoms of a deeper misalignment between how someone is living and what they actually need. That very gap is usually where the most important work happens. Together, we address the immediate challenges while working toward feeling less fragmented and more like oneself.
I tend to work with adults navigating high-functioning anxiety, burnout, grief, life transitions, and challenges with attention and focus. I also have several clients who are actively exploring various dimensions of their identity in the pursuit of greater alignment. Some of my clients are immigrants or children of immigrants — people for whom cultural context is inseparable from how they understand themselves and the world. I work in a way that holds that context central.
I partner best with people who are interested in doing deep work.Here are more examples of who I work with:
Professionals, executives, and founders navigating the particular pressures of leading through rapid technological and economic change, including the isolation that can come with it
Women at critical junctures — in their career, their experiences within various relationships, or their sense of self — who are high-functioning but privately exhausted, and ready to do something about it
People who manage chronic overwhelm through overworking, distraction, procrastination, avoidance, substances, or disconnection
People with neurodiversity navigating challenges with attention, organization, and social connection
Creatives seeking structure and process to deepen their understanding of themselves, their work, and their unique place in society
Individuals reckoning with the paradoxical pulls of a multicultural identity
Those drawn to a deeper examination of who they are
Helping people make meaning of profound experiences — spiritual, entheogenic, or otherwise — and integrating what has emerged into their daily lives
Read about my approach here.
In-person in Oakland & telehealth across California
Relationship Therapy
I work with partners to strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and deepen intimacy. In my relationship therapy work, the client is the relationship between the partners, rather than any individual. My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive. I am particularly attuned toward to the friction that arises between different cultural frameworks, socioeconomic differences, family systems, and intergenerational expectations. Whether you are in crisis or simply ready to build more intentionally, therapy offers a structure for understanding what is actually happening between you.
I do not work with relationships with components of physical abuse.
Some of my clients include:
Partners at critical junctures — fertility and family planning and associated challenges, the transition into parenthood, career transitions, health challenges, and shifts in relationship agreements
Partners navigating relationship and extended family dynamics across cultures, including the friction between Eastern, community-focused values and Western, individualistic ideals
Partners preparing for a shared life together and wanting to get the foundation right
Partners re-examining their commitment and updating systems and agreements that actually work for them
Partners experiencing ruptures of trust who are willing to do the hard work of repair
Partners who have been living parallel lives and want to find their way back to genuine connection
Partners exploring and deepening intimacy in a shame-free space — including desire discrepancy, the lasting impact of relational and sexual histories, and the ways early attachment patterns show up in adult relationships
Partners with pursuer-withdrawer dynamics — where one person is pushing for closeness, change, or attachment, and the other is uncertain, ambivalent, or resistant
Partners exploring separation or divorce
Partners across the gender spectrum and in expansive relationship structures
Read about my approach here.
In-person in Oakland & telehealth across California
Teen Therapy
Adolescence is neurologically, psychologically, and developmentally unlike any other period of life. Teenagers are beginning to discover who they are as individuals — within the context of their families, their peers, and the wider world they are inheriting.
Today's teenagers are contending with something particularly complex. Many came of age during COVID, weathering a period of isolation at precisely the moment when peer connection was most developmentally critical. Teenagers report feeling that the paths that once felt straightforward — perhaps college, career, a predictable future — feel increasingly uncertain. They are inheriting a world shaped by environmental anxiety, economic instability, and a digital landscape that amplifies social pressure in ways previous generations never had to navigate.
Some of the teens I work with are South Asian and multicultural teens for whom adolescence carries a distinct additional weight. Often in these households, identity formation happens against the backdrop of implicit and explicit family expectation and the ongoing negotiation between different cultural orientations. This often produces a powerful tension between the pull toward individuality and the need to belong.
Therapy offers teenagers something they rarely have elsewhere: a confidential space for self-exploration and emergence of being an individual, supported by a trained clinician. Who are they, when they are outside of the influence of others? What are some of their observations, findings, concerns, future goals? Teenagers who have space to know themselves tend to become adults who can navigate life with greater clarity and intention.
Here are more examples of teens I work with:
Teens whose engagement in school or familial/peer relationships has noticeably declined
Teens whose parents are going through divorce
Teens dealing with a loss of a loved one
Teens who might be neurodiverse struggling with increasing demands
Teens with low self-esteem or motivation
In-person in Oakland & telehealth across California
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