Specialties
A focused practice for high-functioning adults navigating anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, and the relationship patterns that quietly run underneath.
In-person in Los Angeles. Virtual across California, Nevada, and Oregon.
My practice is intentionally focused.
I don't try to treat everyone or everything. The work I do well—the work I've built years of clinical experience around—is depth-oriented therapy for capable, driven, anxious overthinkers and the couples and relationships they're in.
If you're looking for a generalist who treats every condition under the sun, that isn't me. If you're looking for a therapist who has thought specifically about what it's like to be high-functioning, internally exhausted, and ready for something more than coping skills—keep reading.
Below are the areas I specialize in, with links to deeper pages on each.
Anxiety & Chronic Worry
The kind of anxiety I work with most isn't dramatic. It's quiet, persistent, and largely invisible to the people around you.
It's the 2 a.m. wake-ups. The over-rehearsing. The mind that won't shut off. The persistent feeling that something is about to go wrong, even when nothing is. It hides behind achievement, competence, and a strong reputation for "having it together."
I treat:
High functioning anxiety
Generalized anxiety
Anticipatory anxiety and overthinking
Anxious perfectionism
Panic and panic attacks
Social anxiety
Relationship anxiety
Work-related anxiety and chronic stress
Burnout
Burnout doesn't always look like collapse. Sometimes it looks like still showing up, still producing, still handling everything—while feeling increasingly disconnected from the life you're inside.
I work with the kind of burnout that's been building for years and the kind that arrived recently after a major demand period. Either way, the work isn't about lowering your stress level for a week. It's about understanding the patterns that produced the burnout and updating them, so the same trajectory doesn't repeat.
I treat:
Emotional and physical exhaustion
Chronic stress and depletion
Workplace and professional burnout
Compassion fatigue (in helpers, therapists, healthcare, parents)
Burnout-related anxiety
The patterns underneath burnout—perfectionism, overfunctioning, difficulty with limits
Perfectionism & High-Achiever Patterns
Perfectionism has a marketing problem. It's the flaw people are most willing to admit, the trait we secretly consider a strength.
Clinically, it looks different. Perfectionism is one of the most consistent drivers of anxiety I see in my practice—because the underlying engine of perfectionism is anxiety. The standards are the visible part. What's underneath is what's actually running the system.
The work isn't to make you less ambitious. It's to separate your competence from your compulsion.
I work with:
Perfectionism and "good enough" intolerance
Procrastination rooted in perfectionism
Self-criticism and the inner critic
Difficulty resting, receiving, or feeling proud
Identity tied tightly to output
The disorienting experience of having achieved what you wanted and feeling somehow worse
Relationships & Couples
The relationships in your life—romantic, familial, professional—are usually where the deepest patterns show up. They're also where the deepest work can happen.
I work with individuals navigating relationship patterns and with couples doing the work of staying close. Whether you're in the relationship you want to be in but feel stuck inside a recurring dynamic, or you're trying to understand why you keep ending up in the same kind of partnership across different partners, this is workable.
I treat:
Relationship anxiety
Recurring relationship patterns
Communication breakdowns and recurring conflict
Trust ruptures and repair
Attachment patterns (anxious, avoidant, mixed)
Couples in life transitions (cohabitation, marriage, parenthood)
Pre-marital therapy
Long-term relationship re-ignition or re-alignment
Overfunctioning & "The Strong One"
If you've been the dependable one for as long as you can remember—the one who handles it, the one others lean on, the one whose own needs are quiet because everyone else's are louder—this is the work for you.
Emotional overfunctioning is one of the most common patterns I see in my Los Angeles practice. It's not a personality trait. It's an adaptation that worked—usually starting young—and quietly cost more than you realized.
I work with:
Chronic overfunctioning in relationships and work
"The strong one" role and its hidden costs
Caretaking patterns and difficulty receiving
Hyper-independence and difficulty asking for help
Resentment, exhaustion, and the slow erosion of self
Updating these patterns without losing your competence
Life Transitions & Identity
Some of the most meaningful therapy work happens during the moments your life is shifting—when something is ending, beginning, or quietly reshaping itself.
Career changes. Relationship transitions. Becoming a parent. Loss. The disorienting in-between of one chapter closing and the next not yet visible.
I work with:
Career transitions and identity shifts
Major life changes (moves, breakups, marriages, becoming a parent)
Grief—including the kind that hasn't been named as grief
Self-worth work, particularly when success hasn't translated to feeling okay
The "now what" experience after achieving what you thought you wanted
Existential questions about purpose, direction, and what's next
How I Work
My approach is depth-oriented without being meandering. Clinical without being cold. Modern without being trendy. I integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodynamic therapy, attachment-based work, cognitive tools, and nervous-system-informed practice—chosen and combined based on what each client actually needs.
The work isn't about giving you a longer list of coping skills. It's about reaching the level patterns are actually held—and giving the system new information.
Ready to start?
If your specialty or experience is on this page—or you're not sure where what you're working with fits—the next step is simple. A 15-minute consultation is the easiest way to find out if we're the right fit. No pressure, no commitment, just a focused conversation about what's been going on and whether this work might help.