I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the state of Maryland (license #LC7605). I received my Bachelor’s Degree from New York University in Linguistics and Languages. I received my Master’s Degree from The University of the District of Columbia in Mental Health Counseling. I worked in community mental health settings before opening my therapy practice in Takoma Park in 2018. I have been happily serving the Takoma Park and surrounding communities since then.
I continue to grow as a therapist through ongoing trainings, a dedicated personal meditation practice, and implementing the very skills and tools I share with my clients.
Areas of Practice
My job is to make myself obsolete! I help my clients figure out what’s going on, help them make the profound and sustainable changes they want to make, and teach them the tools to maintain those changes over time on their own. I have worked with a diverse array of clients over the course of close to 15 years in the field, through individual, family, couples, and group counseling.
I have had extensive training in mindfulness, CBT, and more broadly in meditation. I have an ongoing personal practice that includes mindfulness and meditation and informs my work with clients. My years of experience and training translates into valuable expertise in leveraging evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help my clients reach their therapy goals.
I provide compassionate, culturally- sensitive support for a range of mental health concerns, including:
- Stress and overwhelm
- Mood disorders – depression and bipolar disorder
- Anxiety
- Anger management
- Difficult life transitions
- Trauma
- Addiction
- Grief and loss
Over the course of my career, I have also built an expertise in helping therapy clients do one important thing:
Strengthen their relationship with themselves!
Through learning how to implement therapeutic tools and skills, you will finally be able to productively manage your relationship to your feelings, thoughts, impulses, compulsions, and addictions – simply, to be a better friend to yourself.
Life is hard and everything is easier when you have a friend beside you.
Can you honestly say that you are a friend to yourself?
If the answer is no, then let me use my expertise to help you change that answer to a yes. The friendship with yourself is the most crucial one in your life because it’s the one that will open you up to all the other healthy and satisfying relationships that you crave but may be having difficulty starting or sustaining. And it is the one that will allow you to meet the goals and dreams that you have for yourself, whatever those may be.