Newport Beach · Online Therapy Across California
Therapy for the patterns you’re ready to understand, not just manage.
Psychodynamic therapy for teens, young adults, and adults in Newport Beach and online across California. Support for anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, life transitions, and the deeper patterns beneath them.
If you’ve been feeling anxious, stuck, disconnected, or caught in patterns you don’t fully understand, therapy can help you make sense of what’s happening beneath the surface.
You landed here for a reason.
I'm glad you did.
Maybe you’ve been holding it together on the outside while feeling overwhelmed underneath.
Maybe your teen seems withdrawn, anxious, reactive, or harder to reach than they used to be.
Maybe you’re tired of repeating the same relationship patterns, spiraling through the same thoughts, or wondering why things feel harder than they “should.”
You don’t need to have the perfect words for what’s going on. We can start there.
Therapy with me is warm, collaborative, and depth-oriented. Together, we’ll look beyond surface-level symptoms and begin understanding the patterns, emotions, and experiences shaping how you relate to yourself and others.
“You don’t need to have the perfect words for what’s going on. We can start there.”
Therapy for Teens, Young Adults, and Adults
For people who want more than a quick fix.
Some therapy focuses mostly on symptom management. That can be helpful — but sometimes you want to understand why the symptoms keep showing up in the first place.
Psychodynamic therapy helps you explore the deeper patterns beneath anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, life transitions, and emotional pain.
This work can support you in understanding:
Why certain emotions feel so intense or hard to access
Why the same relationship dynamics keep repeating
Why transitions can stir up anxiety, sadness, or uncertainty
Why you may feel stuck even when you’re trying hard to move forward
How past experiences may still shape your present life
You don’t need to perform in therapy or arrive with a clear problem statement. You just need a place to begin.
Here's how it goes.
Teen Therapy
Support for teens who may not have the words yet.
Teenagers are often carrying more than they know how to explain. Anxiety, depression, school stress, identity questions, friendship struggles, family conflict, or emotional overwhelm can all show up in ways that feel confusing from the outside.
Some teens shut down. Some explode. Some seem “fine” until they’re very clearly not fine.
In therapy, I offer a supportive space where teens can begin to understand what they’re feeling, build more self-awareness, and develop a stronger sense of who they are.
My approach is not about forcing insight or rushing change. It’s about creating enough trust and connection for real growth to happen.
Young Adult Therapy
For the season where everything is changing and somehow you’re supposed to know who you are.
Young adulthood can bring big questions about identity, relationships, independence, work, school, family expectations, and the future.
Even when life looks “on track,” you may feel anxious, uncertain, disconnected, or overwhelmed by decisions that seem to carry too much weight.
Therapy can help you slow down, understand yourself more deeply, and begin making choices from a place of clarity rather than pressure.
This can be especially supportive if you’re navigating anxiety, depression, relationship patterns, life transitions, self-doubt, or the feeling that you’re not quite where you thought you’d be.
Child Therapy
Currently offered on a limited basis.
I have specialized training in psychodynamic psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and young adults, and my work with children is grounded in connection, play, creativity, and emotional understanding.
At this time, my practice is primarily focused on virtual therapy for teens, young adults, and adults across California. Child therapy may be available on a limited basis or revisited more fully in a future season of the practice.
Here's how it goes.
STEP 1:
We have a free 20-minute call
You tell me a little about what’s going on. I’ll share more about how I work, and we’ll get a feel for whether this might be a good fit — no pressure, no obligation.
STEP 2:
We meet for a first session
You don’t need to arrive with the perfect words or a tidy summary of your life. We’ll begin wherever you are and start making sense of what feels important.
STEP 3:
We begin at your pace
We’ll move collaboratively, paying attention to the patterns, emotions, and experiences that shape your life.
How I work
Warm. Curious. Depth-first.
My approach is grounded in psychodynamic therapy, which means we don’t only focus on what you’re feeling; we also explore why certain feelings, patterns, and relationship dynamics may keep returning.
Therapy with me is collaborative and human. I pay attention to what’s spoken and unspoken, what feels clear and what feels harder to name.
Whether I’m working with a teen navigating emotional overwhelm or an adult trying to understand long-standing relationship patterns, genuine connection is always at the center of the work.