My work centers on trauma — the childhood experiences that quietly organize an adult life, and the relational injuries that keep repeating.
I practice in Kearny Mesa and North Park, San Diego, and by telehealth throughout California. Most of the people I see are functioning well by any outside measure and privately exhausted by how much effort it takes.
I am not a neutral, silent presence. I ask direct questions, I say what I notice, and I'll tell you when I think we're circling something. But the pace is set by your nervous system, not a protocol — and never by my curiosity.
Approach
Trauma-focused · attachment-informed · EMDR-trained
How I work
I integrate EMDR where it serves the work, alongside relational and somatically aware methods — which in plain terms means we pay as much attention to what your body is doing as to what you're saying about it.
Trauma is a nervous-system problem before it is a story problem. Understanding your history matters, but understanding alone rarely settles a body.
Insight and relief are not the same thing. We aim for both, and I'll say so plainly if we're only getting one.
Nothing in your history disqualifies you from a good life. Coping that once kept you safe is not evidence of something broken in you.
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Getting started
What the first few sessions are like
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01
We start where you want to start
No intake ritual to survive and no questionnaire to fill out. You talk about what brought you in; I ask about what seems to matter.
02
We map the terrain together
Within a session or two you'll have a plain-language picture of what we're working with and what the work would actually involve — no jargon, no mystery.
03
We agree a direction, and revisit it
Nothing is set in stone. If something isn't working, that's useful information rather than a failure — and we say so out loud.
Two clinical minds on your care — every case reviewed with Dr. Jason N. Linder, PsyD.
Oversight
Supervision as a strength
As an associate I practice under the formal clinical supervision of Dr. Jason N. Linder, PsyD. Practically, that means every case I carry is reviewed and supported by a seasoned doctoral-level clinician — a structural layer of quality you don't get in solo licensed practice.
Some people see "associate" and read it as inexperience. I'd invite you to read it as oversight: two clinicians thinking carefully about your care instead of one.
Credentials
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, California BBS — AMFT #159580
Supervised by Dr. Jason N. Linder, PsyD
EMDR basic training complete (EMDR-trained)
In-person in Kearny Mesa & North Park; telehealth for California residents
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