For healthcare professionals and leaders who are ready to think clearly, lead steadily, and reconnect with what matters.
You're capable, thoughtful, and often the one others rely on. But something has quietly shifted. The work has begun to feel heavier than it once did, internally costly in ways that are hard to name.
Burnout is not a sign that something is broken. It is a signal that something is ready to change.
This is a space to slow down, reflect, and make sense of what you've been carrying.
Many people reach out while still functioning well. They notice that decision-making feels heavier, clarity comes less easily, or something essential has begun to feel off. Harder to access. Harder to trust.
Who I Work With
I work with thoughtful, capable people who carry significant responsibility and have spent years being reliable for others.
My practice centers on healthcare professionals and leaders: physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, mental health therapists, healthcare executives, and clinical managers and directors.
Many clients sense their work has begun to carry an internal cost. They are deeply committed to their patients, teams, and organizations, and to the standards and values that brought them into this work in the first place.
The people who find this work most helpful are often continuing to meet their responsibilities while noticing shifts in clarity, identity, or self-trust. They may find that reactions feel unfamiliar, decisions feel heavier, or the standards they have always held themselves to and still believe in no longer feel sustainable to carry alone.
And often they have no intention of leaving the work they built their lives around.
If something here feels familiar, even if you cannot fully name it yet, it may be worth a conversation.
The Pattern Healthcare Professionals Rarely Name
You're still performing. Still delivering. Still holding the standard.
But something has shifted internally. Decision-making feels heavier. Clarity comes less easily. The work that once felt aligned now carries an internal cost that's hard to articulate.
This is not conventional burnout. You haven't hit a wall. You're functioning, often functioning well. This is the pattern that comes BEFORE the wall: sustained high performance with diminishing internal resources.
Most people don't have language for this yet. They wonder if they're "burned out enough" or if they should just push through.
But this isn't about severity. It's about recognizing a pattern and choosing to engage it consciously rather than waiting for a crisis.
If you're noticing this pattern, that's the signal. Not the breaking point.
How Therapy Works
Many healthcare professionals and leaders arrive having spent years adapting to ongoing demand, performing, managing, delivering, while slowly losing the thread back to themselves.
Therapy with me creates space to set that down. Treatment is tailored to each person's goals and may include structured, evidence-based approaches such as ACT and CBT alongside reflective and somatic work.
This work goes beyond problem-solving. It is reflective, deliberate, and grounded in the belief that burnout is not a sign that something is broken. It is a signal that something is ready to change.
This work is not about stepping away from healthcare. It is about finding a way to remain fully in it without losing yourself in the process.
The work centers on one movement: from performance to presence. Reconnecting with your values, your body, your sense of self. The parts that were there before the role.
My approach holds complexity rather than simplifying it. I listen deeply to what is said, what is left unspoken, and what the body is carrying that has not yet found words. This integrates psychological insight, mindfulness practice, and research on identity development under pressure and within the context of cultural values.
As the work unfolds, what was fragmented begins to integrate. Thoughts, emotions, bodily responses, and values can be held together rather than kept separate. Clients often describe feeling more grounded in what matters and more able to move through their lives with steadiness and clarity.
This work moves at a sustainable pace. Clarity rarely arrives all at once. But it does arrive.
Services
Individual Therapy
I offer individual psychotherapy for healthcare professionals and leaders who are ready to engage in sustained, reflective work.
Rather than managing distress, this work creates space to understand what sustained responsibility has cost you and what it means to lead and care for others from a more grounded place. Therapy invites inquiry into what has been carried over time, allowing clarity, coherence, and self-trust to emerge.
Session Details
50-minute sessions
Telehealth only
Available to clients located in California
Initial consultation: 20-minute video call to assess fit, no charge
Fit
This work is most helpful for people who are willing to engage consistently in reflective psychotherapy and who value depth and integration over quick solutions. Many clients come to this work while continuing to meet significant professional and personal responsibilities.
Scope
This practice focuses on outpatient psychotherapy. When a different level or type of support would be more appropriate, I work collaboratively to help identify additional resources or referrals that align with your needs.
Investment & Scheduling
This work is an investment in reclaiming the clarity, steadiness, and self-trust that sustained responsibility has quietly cost you.
Individual sessions are $300 per 50-minute session.
This is a private-pay practice. I do not bill insurance directly. Superbills are available upon request.
Appointments canceled with less than 24 hours’ notice are charged the full session fee.
A limited number of sliding scale spots are available at my discretion and discussed during the initial consultation, based on both financial need and clinical fit.
Good Faith Estimate
Under the No Surprises Act, healthcare providers are required to provide a Good Faith Estimate of expected charges to clients who are self-pay or not using insurance. You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the cost of services. This estimate is available upon request and can be discussed during your initial consultation.
About Me
I am a licensed psychologist with over 17 years of experience working in healthcare as both a clinician and a leader. My clinical background spans outpatient behavioral health, chronic pain, intensive outpatient care, and inpatient medical-psychiatric care. I also led a testing assessment team conducting neuropsychological, ADHD and ASD evaluations—work that required diagnostic precision and sustained judgment across complex presentations.
In leadership roles, I managed triage, crisis, and assessment teams, served as adult team manager within a psychiatry department, and was interim behavioral health manager on a medical-psychiatric unit—environments where complex clinical decisions, ethical responsibility, and competing demands converge daily.
I know these environments from the inside—not as an observer, but as someone who built a career navigating the same terrain my clients bring to therapy. Over time, I kept asking a quiet question: How do I reconnect with myself after years of being who the work needed?
My doctoral research explored how people navigate competing expectations, develop identity under pressure, and make meaning within the context of their cultural values. I am also a certified mindfulness meditation teacher. Together, these experiences inform how I work: holding complexity, listening deeply, and supporting a return to embodied presence.
I help healthcare professionals and clinical leaders reconnect with their sense of purpose, sustain resilience, and navigate the demands of high-stakes healthcare environments. Whether you are a physician, nurse, psychologist, or clinical leader, my goal is to create a confidential, supportive space where you can reflect, restore, and move forward with clarity and confidence.
Contact
If something on this page felt familiar, this is where that recognition becomes a conversation.
I offer a complimentary 20-minute video consultation to discuss what you're experiencing and explore whether this approach feels like a good match.
You may schedule a consultation below, or send a message if you prefer to inquire first.
