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About Me
People often ask me, what was your path to becoming a psychologist?
My Path
Ever since I was a child, I have been drawn to trying to understand how people and relationships work. I am fascinated with internal life, how thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and self-narratives create our experience of ourselves and our perception of reality. I also love to explore how people create meaning and purpose in their lives. In college, I studied psychology and religion abroad at the University of Delhi, India and explored Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, philosophy, and other religions. I earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology with a minor in education at the University of California, Santa Cruz. After college, I started my master's in drama therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies. I loved the expressive art therapies, but soon realized I wanted more academic training, so I pursued my PsyD (psychology doctorate) at PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium. After my doctorate, I did additional training in existential and psychodynamic therapy, a type of therapy that I practice today that involves introspection, reflection, and meaning-making.
Transitions and Becoming
I often work with people who are struggling with their identity during a major life transition. This can be separating from home and going to college, getting a first job, getting married, becoming a parent, experiencing the death of a parent, and aging. Life transitions create a break from who you were, to who you are becoming. It is a fault line in one’s life that can feel quite overwhelming, chaotic, and unstable. There is a grieving of what was, in order to open up to what can be. These fault lines can be an opportunity for growth and the emergence of something new. Although neither of us know where your journey will lead, I am committed to supporting you in becoming fully you.
