Individual therapy focuses on your own emotional, relational, and behavioral patterns, including experiences from the past that may still shape how you respond in the present.

Couples therapy focuses on the relationship between romantic partners, including communication, conflict, attachment, trust, and recurring relational patterns.

Partnerships work is designed for business partners, founders, leadership teams, family businesses, and other high-stakes partnerships. The work may address relational strain as well as roles, authority, expectations, and decision-making.

Coaching is generally more future-focused and may center on leadership, transitions, decision-making, boundaries, or professional and relational effectiveness. It is not psychotherapy and does not involve diagnosing or treating mental health conditions.

The Maduro Method is my integrative framework for understanding patterns through three interconnected dimensions: Mind, Body, and Story.

Mind includes the thoughts, meanings, expectations, and beliefs that shape how you interpret experience. Body includes the physical and emotional responses that can begin before you have consciously decided how to respond. Story includes the relationships, experiences, culture, and identities that have shaped what you learned about yourself and other people.

The work is less about finding one explanation for a pattern and more about understanding how these dimensions interact. Insight matters, but understanding a pattern and being able to respond differently in the moment are not always the same thing.

Many people I work with have already done significant self-reflection or therapy. They may understand where a pattern came from and still find that the same reaction takes over in the moment.

Our work pays attention not only to what you understand intellectually, but also to what happens in your body, in relationships, and in the stories and expectations that have developed over time. The goal is not simply more insight. It is creating more room for something different to become possible.

I provide individual and couples therapy using an integrative, trauma-informed approach. Depending on what brings you to therapy, our work may draw from somatic therapy, EMDR, attachment-focused work, narrative therapy, and other relational and experiential approaches.

I do not assume that every client needs the same modality. We decide together what is most useful based on what you are experiencing, what you have already tried, and how the work develops over time.

Yes. I offer small, structured therapy groups for adults in California and Utah. Groups currently gathering interest include:

Between Cultures is an 8-week therapy group for Filipino American adults exploring family, culture, identity, belonging, and what we choose to carry forward. Learn more about Between Cultures →

Burnout Therapy Group is for adults navigating chronic responsibility, overfunctioning, perfectionism, and the difficulty of slowing down even when they know they need to. Learn more about the Burnout Therapy Group →

Both groups are currently gathering interest. Visit the group pages to learn more and join the interest list.

Partnerships work supports people whose ability to build, lead, or make decisions together depends on the relationship functioning well. This may include founders, business partners, leadership teams, family businesses, spouses working together, or other high-stakes partnerships.

Sometimes the relationship itself has become strained. Other times, the relationship is relatively strong but roles, authority, expectations, or decision-making have never been clearly defined. We identify where the partnership is actually getting stuck and work on the relational or structural issues that are contributing to it.

Coaching may focus on leadership, professional transitions, boundaries, decision-making, identity, or relational dynamics. It is particularly useful when the primary question is not about treating a mental health concern, but about how you want to lead, work, relate, or make decisions going forward.

The consultation can help us determine whether what you are looking for is better suited to therapy, coaching, or partnerships work.

Trauma-informed therapy recognizes that present-day reactions can be shaped by experiences that taught us what to expect, what to protect against, or what we needed to do to stay connected or safe.

It also means paying attention to pacing, choice, context, and the therapeutic relationship. You do not have to tell every detail of what happened, and the goal is not to push you into experiences before you are ready to work with them.

Experiences do not have to remain vivid memories to continue shaping us. They can influence what we expect from other people, what feels threatening or familiar, how quickly we react, and the meanings we make about ourselves.

You may notice this as anxiety, tension, avoidance, overthinking, difficulty trusting, strong reactions in relationships, or patterns that make sense intellectually but remain difficult to change in the moment.

Somatic therapy brings attention to what is happening in the body alongside thoughts, emotions, and relationships. That might include noticing tension, impulses, shifts in breathing, changes in energy, or other physical signals as they emerge.

EMDR is a structured approach that can help people work with experiences that continue to feel emotionally or physically present even when they know the event is over.

Neither approach is used automatically. We consider what fits your goals, history, preferences, and readiness as the work develops.

Narrative Therapy is a form of talk therapy that pays particular attention to the stories and meanings through which we understand ourselves.

Rather than treating a problem as the definition of who you are, we can examine how relationships, family, culture, experiences, and larger systems have shaped the story you carry about yourself, and whether that story still fits.

Learn more about Narrative Therapy →

Somatic work may be useful when you understand something intellectually but notice that your body still responds differently: you tense, shut down, become activated, pull away, or feel an urge to act before you have had time to think.

It can also be helpful when emotions are difficult to put into words or when stress and relational experiences have a strong physical component. Somatic therapy does not replace talking. It expands what we pay attention to in the room.

Yes. Culture and identity can shape how we understand family, belonging, responsibility, achievement, relationships, emotion, and what is expected of us.

Therapy can provide room to examine what you inherited, what has helped you, what feels constraining now, and what you want to choose for yourself. The goal is not to separate you from your culture or history, but to make more room for complexity and choice.

I approach therapy with the understanding that people are shaped not only by individual psychology, but also by family, culture, community, migration, gender, race, sexuality, socioeconomic context, and other lived experiences.

I do not assume that I already understand what any part of your identity means to you. Those meanings are something we can explore together when they are relevant to the work.

No. I work with adults and couples from many different backgrounds. You do not need to identify with a particular culture, community, profession, or life experience to work with me.

What matters more is whether the way I work feels aligned with what you are looking for in therapy.

Change is not always dramatic. Often, it begins with noticing something sooner: recognizing a familiar reaction while it is happening, recovering more quickly after a difficult moment, responding differently in a relationship, or having more room between what you feel and what you do next.

We can also talk directly about how therapy is going, what feels useful, what does not, and whether the work is moving toward the changes that matter to you.

Individual and couples therapy sessions are typically 50 minutes. Many clients begin weekly, although frequency depends on your needs, goals, and the kind of work we are doing together.

Partnerships engagements use a different structure: six 90-minute sessions held approximately every other week, with the option to continue if additional work would be useful.

Yes. I offer virtual therapy for clients located in California and Utah, as permitted by my licenses and registrations.

In-person appointments are also available in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Availability varies, so we can discuss location and scheduling during your consultation.

I am a self-pay provider and do not bill insurance directly. I can provide a monthly superbill that you may submit to your insurance company for possible out-of-network reimbursement.

Coverage varies by plan, so I recommend contacting your insurance company directly to ask about your out-of-network mental health benefits.

Partnership work is priced by group size and begins with a minimum engagement of six 90-minute sessions. Six sessions is a starting point rather than a guaranteed endpoint. Exact pricing is confirmed during your consultation. Limited sliding-scale spots may be available for individual and couples therapy.

If you need to cancel or reschedule an appointment, please provide at least 24 hours' notice by email or text. Cancellations made with less than 24 hours' notice are charged the full session fee.

Missed appointments without notice are also charged the full session fee. I understand that emergencies and other extenuating circumstances can arise, and those situations will be considered individually.

Therapy is generally the better fit when the work involves mental health symptoms, trauma, attachment patterns, grief, emotional distress, or experiences from the past that continue to affect your life and relationships.

Coaching is generally more appropriate when you are functioning relatively well and want focused support around leadership, decisions, transitions, boundaries, or future-oriented goals.

You do not need to determine this on your own before contacting me. We can talk about what brings you in during the consultation and decide which kind of work makes the most sense.

The first step is a free 15-minute consultation. We can briefly talk about what brings you in, what you are looking for, and whether working together feels like a good fit.

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