The Heroine's Journey is not about becoming someone new, but remembering who you were before the world asked you to abandon yourself

Therapy in Santa Barbara, Ojai, and Ventura, and via Telehealth across California.

I offer trauma-informed, integrative psychotherapy that centers attachment and the body as pathways to healing. My work supports clients in developing more secure, attuned relationships—with themselves and others—while gently working with the nervous system to process and shift unconscious patterns. I practice primarily as an attachment-based, somatic therapist, integrating Hakomi mindfulness, EMDR, and Jungian psychology.

I specialize in working with early childhood trauma, anxious attachment patterns, self-worth, highly sensitive person (HSP), women’s issues, and grief and loss, and how these experiences can live in both the nervous system and psyche. These patterns often show up as heightened sensitivity to distance, fear of rejection or loss, difficulty trusting the stability of relationships, and a deep longing for reassurance and connection that can feel hard to settle for.

I approach these responses not as flaws, but as intelligent adaptations shaped by early attachment experiences and reinforced through later relational pain. In our work, we explore how abandonment experiences—both past and present—become reactivated in current relationships, and how the attachment system organizes around proximity, anxiety, protest, and connection-seeking in moments of perceived disconnection.

My Specialties Include:

• Anxious Attachment

• Early Childhood Trauma

• Self-Worth

• Perfectionism

• Recovery from Narcissistic & Emotional Abuse

• Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)

• Grief & Loss

• Divorce & Heartbreak