About Me

My Story

I wanted to be a therapist long before anyone in my life thought that was a serious ambition. So I went to law school instead.

For 19 years, I worked in law and finance. My career began as a structured finance lawyer and moved into investment banking, with senior leadership roles at Goldman Sachs and The Royal Bank of Scotland, followed by work as a co-founder and executive in the technology sector at companies including FinDox, Figure, and RoofStock.

The work was complex and demanding, and I was good at it. What made me good at it was the same quality that had always set me apart: an acute attunement to people, the ability to read a room, understand motivations, and notice what wasn’t being said.

I also experienced the gap between having a life that looked successful and having a life that felt complete. When I had the freedom to do anything, I chose this. What happens in this room is the most meaningful work I know, and my clients feel that from the first session.

The people I work with learn to understand what they feel, ask for what they need, and recognize the patterns that keep repeating in their relationships and their own lives. They become better partners, better parents, and more honest versions of themselves. That is the work. And I find it endlessly worth doing.

My Approach

I am deeply relational in how I understand people. I want to know how you experience yourself, the people you love, your work, and the decisions you make. I am interested in what you think, what you feel, what you do with those feelings, and what happens between you and the people around you.

My clients describe me as warm, direct, present, and engaged. I share what I observe, name patterns as they emerge, and offer perspective based on my clinical training and my own experience with demanding careers, family, and relationships.

My approach is psychodynamic and depth-focused. We look beneath the presenting problem to understand the patterns and experiences behind it. I am also a trained mediator, which informs how I work with couples and families when conflict has become difficult to resolve.

Before private practice, I trained at Exodus Recovery, a residential crisis facility working with clients in acute psychiatric and addiction crises. That experience taught me how important it is to understand what is happening beneath the immediate problem and how differently people can respond when they are under serious stress.

Outside the Office

I am a parent to two kids, one in college and one in high school. They have given me a close-up education in adolescence, young adulthood, and the ways parenting changes as children become increasingly independent. They also remain firmly unconvinced that I am as funny as I think I am.

I have navigated divorce, co-parenting, and the complexity of building a blended family. I understand that family life rarely fits neatly into the plans you make for it. There are former spouses, new partners, children with different needs, competing loyalties, changing expectations, and decisions that affect everyone involved. Even when the adults are trying to do the right thing, there can be no perfect solution.

I know what it is like to make difficult decisions while still having to live with the consequences of those decisions, and to find a way to move forward without losing sight of the relationships that matter. That experience informs how I work with parents, couples, and families navigating their own complicated circumstances.

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

-Viktor Frankl
This practice serves executives, founders, lawyers, and high-achieving professionals and couples in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, and across California via telehealth. If you are ready to do serious work with someone who understands your world, I would like to hear from you.