Professional Experience:

Welcome to my profile! I started my counseling career working at the Glendale Police Department with teens and their families in trouble with the law. During that time, I have also facilitated numerous women’s groups to help young women feel empowered, take charge of their life and gain confidence.

My compassion and people-centered nature are assets that help my clients build trust and feel safe in the therapeutic relationship. With 20+ years of experience as an educator and therapist, and a Mom of a gifted and special needs child, my life’s journey lead me to becoming a specialist in working with gifted and special needs children and teenagers. My life’s work has been in service of special needs kids, children, and adolescents with learning disabilities, social/emotional needs, and behavioral challenges.

I work with divorcing families, struggling with navigating the muddy waters of this difficult time and work with blending families who face the challenges of trying to merge two different family dynamics into one.

As a practicing EMDR clinician, there is no greater joy for me, than to see my clients work through what they decided, learned and understood to be traumatic experiences in their lives. It is my honor and privilege to be that bridge who holds my clients’ hands with care, compassion and supports them in crossing over from their past self into welcoming their newly developed present and future sense of self. My mission is to help my clients to fully embrace their own journey of self-discovery where they believe in their potential and see a world of possibilities opening for them.

I believe everyone has infinite potential to become their best self through growth, insight, and self-awareness. In life the most important relationship we will always have, is the relationship with our felt sense of self as development happens and as we interact with family, friends, loved ones and professional relationships. In an ever-evolving world of relationships, it is my mission to support my clients towards personal growth by improving the quality of the important relationships in their lives beginning with their relationship with themselves.