About

I am a psychiatrist based in Santa Cruz, California, and work with patients in person and via Telehealth through the San Francisco Bay Area. I am board certified in both adult and child and adolescent psychiatry. I completed my residency and fellowship at Stanford University where I was also chief resident. I have been practicing for over a decade and have worked in both community and university-based settings, including at the University of California, Santa Cruz and as the medical director at The Lotus Collaborative Care.

The way I practice has been influenced by psychoanalytic and developmental thinking, as well as somatic and contemplative traditions. These perspectives inform how I listen, how I think about suffering, and how I approach the process of change.

My work has been shaped by a longstanding interest in how patterns of mind and relationship take form over time, particularly with regards to the impact of attachment, developmental trauma and early life relationships. I am drawn to approaches that attend not only to symptoms, but to the underlying processes that shape a life—developmental, relational, and experiential. I believes that the interventions that are the most effective are those the help us grow.