FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Who is a good fit to work with you?

I work with people who are insightful, capable, and often already “good at therapy,” but still find themselves over-functioning, losing their voice, or stuck in the same relational patterns. As a San Francisco therapist, many of my clients are navigating high-pressure environments while also wanting something more honest and aligned in their relationships and lives.

Many people come at a turning point—when something is no longer working, and they know they can’t think their way through it. Our work asks for a willingness to slow down, stay present, and meet yourself more directly, especially in the moments where you would usually accommodate, perform, or stay small.

What results can I expect from therapy?

Therapy supports you in becoming more connected to yourself in real time—so you can recognize your patterns, stay with your emotions, and respond rather than react. Over time, this leads to more authentic relationships, clearer decision-making, and a stronger sense of direction.

The goal is not insight alone, but a lived shift—where you feel more grounded, more expressed, and more able to stay with yourself in situations that used to pull you out of your center.

As a therapist in the San Francisco Bay Area, I often work with clients who are used to performing at a high level externally but feel disconnected internally. Many people find therapy helps them access more love, joy, vitality and purpose within themselves, with family and friendships, and in their work lives—to become more evolved humans and leaders.

What makes your approach different from other therapists?

My work is relational, active, and grounded in real-time experience rather than talking about your life from a distance. I track the subtle moments where you leave yourself—through over-efforting, dissociating, or shaping yourself to maintain connection—and we work directly with those patterns as they happen.

I also integrate body-based awareness and psychedelic integration therapy as part of my work in California. Although understanding your patterns is helpful, our focus is on shifting them through direct experience so change becomes something lived and sustainable.

How do you work?

Therapy is a collaborative, engaged process where we track what is happening in your thoughts, emotions, and body in real time. Sessions are active—whether in-person in San Francisco or virtual across California—you are met with presence, reflection, and enough challenge to help you grow.

Our work develops your capacity to stay with your experience, expand your emotional range, and remain in contact with yourself and others—even in moments that would normally feel overwhelming, uncertain, or destabilizing.

Do you offer psychedelic integration therapy in San Francisco?

Yes. I offer psychedelic preparation, integration, and guided personal retreats in San Francisco and Petaluma, and work with clients throughout California who are seeking support before or after psychedelic experiences. Integration work can help you process emotional insights, relationship patterns, spiritual experiences, grief, major life transitions, and changes that emerge through expanded state work. My approach combines relational therapy, embodiment, nervous system awareness, and depth-oriented exploration.

What is psychedelic integration therapy?

Psychedelic integration therapy helps you process, understand, and apply insights that emerge through psychedelic or expanded state experiences. Integration is about helping meaningful experiences become real and sustainable changes in your life, relationships, body, and sense of self.

People often seek psychedelic integration therapy after experiences with psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT, cannabis, or other expanded states of consciousness. Integration therapy can support emotional processing, relationship patterns, grief, spiritual experiences, nervous system regulation, identity shifts, creativity, and major life transitions such as breakup, divorce or career change.

My approach to psychedelic integration therapy combines relational therapy, somatic awareness, embodiment, and nervous system work. Rather than focusing only on insight, we explore how these experiences live in the body, in relationships, and in everyday life. I offer psychedelic integration therapy in San Francisco and Petaluma and work with clients throughout California.

What is the commitment for 1:1 therapy?

Therapy begins with weekly 50-minute sessions, as consistency is essential for our work to be a change process. Meeting weekly allows us to stay close to the work and track patterns as they unfold in real time.

The overall length of therapy varies depending on your goals and I will always respect your decision about when to end.

For people seeking a different structure, I offer personal retreats, workshops, small group ceremonies, and support groups, in-person, in San Francisco and Petaluma, California.

What’s the difference between therapy and a support group?

Individual therapy is a focused, one-on-one process that centers on your internal experience, patterns, and relationships. It allows for depth, safety, attunement, and direct relational work as it unfolds in real time.

Group experiences, like support groups or workshops, offer a shared space where you connect with others navigating similar struggles or goals. Listening to other’s experiences can be validating, help you feel less alone, and help you make new social connections. However, group work can also evoke your personal material in a way that is sometimes helpful and sometimes triggering, which requires a high capacity for self awareness.

Both types of work can be helpful, and often people switch between them, depending on their goals and readiness.

How is somatic therapy different from talk therapy?

Talk therapy focuses primarily on thoughts, emotions, insight, and understanding your experiences through conversation. Somatic therapy also includes tracking the body and nervous system as part of the healing process. In somatic therapy, we pay attention to physical sensations, tension, emotional activation, impulses, breath, grounding, and the ways your fight-flight system responds in relationships and stressful situations.

Many people are highly insightful and self-aware but still feel stuck in the same emotional or relational patterns. Somatic therapy helps create change through new embodied experiences of safety, contact, boundaries, emotion, and connection. My approach integrates relational therapy, somatic awareness, and nervous system work to support deeper and more lasting change.

How do I know if I’m ready for a personal retreat?

A personal retreat is a good fit when you’re ready for a significant change. You may feel that you’re at the limit of what talk therapy can offer, have significant insight into your patterns but are frustrated that they’re not changing, feel lost or unsure of who you are after a major life transition, or have a sense that something in your life is asking to shift now.

You do not need to feel fully “ready,” but you do need a willingness to stay present and engage honestly with what emerges. Retreats are best supported by ongoing therapy before and after, so the experience can be integrated into lasting change.

How do I get started?

The first step is to reach out through my contact form to schedule a free 20-minute consultation. I’ll reply to you within 24 hours with my available consult times. This is a chance to briefly talk through what you are looking for and determine whether working together feels like a good fit.

What does therapy cost and do you accept insurance?

Individual therapy is $250 per 50-minute session. I am an out-of-network provider and do not bill insurance directly, but many clients receive partial reimbursement through PPO plans after their deductible is met.

I can provide you with a superbill for reimbursement whether you’re working with me in-person in San Francisco or virtually within California.

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