Therapy for Adults
in-person in Oakland and Berkeley; online in California
Maybe you cry easily—almost too easily, where you're never sure when it might hit, how everyone else will react, and you're not quite sure how to make it stop. Or maybe you experience the opposite, where you have a hard time noticing your feelings until they come out sideways as frustration or anger you didn't see coming. Maybe you're carrying stuff from years or decades ago that still runs the show more than you'd like. Or maybe you're exhausted from constant people pleasing.
You might also be starting to question (or already know) whether you’re autistic, ADHD, or both. The world feels like it wasn't built for you, you're tired of constantly feeling like you have to wear a mask—even in therapy.
You don’t have to be neurodivergent for me to be a good fit for you. Either way, chances are you've already spent a lot of time trying to make sense of this—of yourself, of why you react the way you do, of why the people around you don't seem to be working as hard at it as you are. You're not looking for someone to tell you something's wrong with you. You're looking for some relief.
how I work
I specialize in longer-term, depth therapy. In practice, trauma-informed, relational, and somatic aren't three separate things I do—they're one way of paying attention. We do go back into old material, but from a place where your nervous system has enough support to actually integrate it instead of just re-living it. And a lot happens in the relationship between us too, because that's often where old patterns show up first and most clearly. (For example, noticing how I authentically respond to you when you express a need, feeling how our relationship holds steady—regardless of whether or not I can give you what you've asked for.)
For neurodivergent adults, that same attention goes toward something else, too. When the world around you constantly makes you feel on edge or overwhelmed, therapy is often more about counteracting that and giving you a space to feel something other than "bad." We're finding what actually feels good or neutral and sustainable for your particular nervous system, especially when "positive" itself can be its own kind of overwhelming.
Reach out for a 15-minute consultation call.
what I’m like in session
Sometimes in session, I'll notice you feel a little floaty to me—not fully here, somewhere just slightly out of reach. I'll usually name it. "I'm feeling a little floaty right now—are you?" And then we do something really simple to bring you back: feel your feet on the floor, name five blue things in the room, notice the texture of whatever's in your hands. It's not a detour from the real work. It is the real work—your nervous system learning, in real time, that it can come back.
Other times, as you’re experiencing grief or pain or even joy, I’ll tear up a little. This is one of the things that makes me different as a therapist. You are not alone in your emotions—I feel them right alongside you.
Ready to see if we're a good fit?
I offer free 15-minute consultations.