A Little More About Me

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Human nature has always fascinated me. Growing up, I remember watching the adults in my life with curiosity. As I became older, my questions became more complex and the adults around me could no longer provide simple answers. Throughout my collegiate years at UC Berkeley, I chose to study human rights in hopes of becoming an attorney primarily to help others in a black and white way. But between politics and parties, my worldview blurred and I began to question my values and sense of personal identity. After surviving a serious car accident, I began to reckon with my own humanity and how I wanted to live this one wild, finite life.

I chose to backpack around Europe by myself for 7 months. Across 23 different countries, I began to appreciate all the nuances of our cultural differences and our shared yet distinct human experiences. Less than a year later, the 2020 Global Pandemic wrecked havoc across the globe on both systemic and interpersonal levels. In concordance with our country's reckoning with racial injustice past and present, I began to understand that the legal system was an incredibly awkward instrument for helping others. 

In my path to becoming a therapist, I worked full-time in community mental health advocacy while also earning my master's from Santa Clara University in Counseling Psychology. During graduate school, I contributed to groundbreaking qualitative research studying how race, culture, and gender influence parenting across generations and associated mental health outcomes. Our work was presented at the APA Annual Conference in Seattle, August 2024.

Throughout my life, I have maintained a passion for gender equality and sexual freedom. Working with members of the LGBTQIA+ community, survivors of sexual trauma, and conflictual relationships of all kinds has taught me that shame and self-judgement have a much more detrimental impact on wellbeing than most people are willing to recognize. My practice prioritizes sex-positivity by inviting conversations around pleasure, fetish, sexual dysfunction, sexual trauma, and whatever else you've been too afraid to talk about.

When I'm not working, traveling, or preaching sex-positivity, I spend my free time enjoying the company of my loved ones (namely my cat, Maeve), cooking delicious and nutritious food, and engaging in wellness practices. All in all, you could describe me as a fun-loving, nerdy, cat-lady with a flair for foreign affairs. I'm a champion for authenticity, advocate of humor, and an apologist for swearing. I invite my clients to bring their full, unfiltered selves to our sessions, knowing that the therapeutic container I provide will be full of warmth, welcoming, and unconditional positive regard.

Seeking therapy is a vulnerable experience and I am so happy you've made it this far. If I sound like the type of mental health provider you've been looking for, please contact me by clicking the link below to set up your free 20-minute phone consultation. I so look forward to connecting with you!

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Supervised by

Cathy Chambliss, LMFT

License #MFC39875

(310) 303-9132