Where is your office located?

I work in person Tuesdays in Hollywood and Fridays in Pasadena. I also work virtually the rest of the week.

Hollywood office:

627 N Larchmont Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90004

Pasadena Office :

30 N Raymond Ave

Pasadena, CA, 91103

WHAT IS THE FEE?

Participating in therapy or coaching is a choice to invest in yourself. It requires your participation and commitment to experience progress. Unlike material gains, therapy and coaching help you gain insights, awareness, consciousness and wisdom that will benefit you, your relationships and quality of life for a lifetime.

At this time I am active provider under Aetna and Kaiser Permanente of Northern CA insurance.

Paying out of pocket for services ensures more privacy of your therapy records given that using insurance means the insurance will have access to your records.

60 min Individual Therapy- $175

60 min Coaching Session- $175

60 min Couples Therapy- $225

I offer 4 sliding fee openings, but at this time they are fully occupied. If you wish to join the wait list for sliding scale, please contact me and I’d be happy to provide you with more information.

What can you expect from our work together?

I adapt services to the unique needs of each individual. I intend to start sessions by allowing you to choose what you would like to focus on and process. You can choose the goal or goals you want to set for yourself and I will support you in the process of attaining them.

During sessions I guide you to target your emotional experiences, bodily sensations and engage you in various mindfulness tools to help release stagnant emotions from your body and to support the regulation of your nervous system. I encourage you to practice tools from our sessions in your day to day life for you to regularly experience the benefits of regulating your nervous system. By doing this, you will also increase your capacity to explore your unique triggers, attached memories and potential trauma. Thus, helping you to develop increased awareness and slowly being guided to release the intense emotions or strongholds from the past that are no longer serving you. Then we follow by learning to offer full acceptance, compassion and love to all parts of you that served the purpose of getting you to this point in life and helping pave the way for positive shifts in perception and actions that will help strengthen the quality of relationship you have with yourself, others and the world. 

I ask questions that help you explore yourself with more depth. I guide you to become intimate with your light and shadow self, to gain understanding of your experiences, unconscious mind and begin amplifying the voice of your intuition that will guide you to bring peace and balance to your mind body and soul, and eventually freeing you to align with embodying your authentic self.

Is this work challenging?

Commitment to your healing journey is hard work, and at first symptoms might worsen before they get better since we are increasing awareness and slowly challenging old habits of thinking, feeling and behaving to create space for new beliefs, feelings and behaviors that support your wellbeing. However, when progress becomes evident and in the long term, you realize it was all worth it! 

Am I being judged in the process?

I care to provide a nonjudgmental space for you to explore the deepest parts of yourself. I embrace the perfect imperfections of our humanity as I also embrace the perfect imperfections in myself. I welcome your honest feedback all through our work together. If it’s your first time giving therapy or coaching a chance, it is normal to feel uncomfortable sharing about yourself out loud, but in time and as we build a connection, you will become more comfortable with sharing.

What is your experience and education?

I graduated from Cal State Northridge in 2012 with a BS in Psychology. I started gaining experience in Applied Behavioral Analysis and Play Therapy from 2012- 2017. From 2015-2020 I worked closely with and under the supervision of a renowned Psychiatrist learning about mental health symptoms, crisis management, quality of care and building meaningful relationships with patients, while also collaborating with physicians, social workers and psychologists. In 2016 I started my Masters program in Marriage and Family Therapy at Mount Saint Mary's University, where I started gaining field experience in 2017 as a marriage and family therapist trainee in a community mental health free clinic. After graduating in 2018 I worked in community mental health providing my service to underserved populations from 2018-2020, followed by gaining experience in private practice and coaching from 2020-2024.

Is WHAT I SHARE confidential?

Yes, everything you share is confidential. However, for therapy services, the disclosure of abuse toward a child, dependent adult (someone with a disability and unable to care for themselves) or an elderly person (above the age of 60), must be reported. If someone is in immediate danger of hurting themselves with the intention of ending their own life or in immediate danger of harming a specific person, then that is also a reportable matter to help ensure safety. Thinking of suicide alone is not reportable and I aim to create a safe space to help explore these thoughts with you, if they become present. 

If you choose to participate in coaching services, everything you share will remain confidential and the requirement is for you to not be at risk of self harm or harm to others, given that coaching is a nonclinical approach.