From Filmmaking to Therapy

I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) offering online therapy for creatives, caretakers, and high-functioning adults in California and Oregon who are navigating anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, and relationship challenges.

Before becoming a therapist, I worked in the film industry, where storytelling became a way to explore meaning, identity, and transformation. Over time, I became increasingly interested in the emotional lives behind stories, not just the stories themselves. That curiosity eventually led me to psychotherapy.

Through my own creative work, I saw how the stories we absorb early in life continue to shape our inner worlds, emotional patterns, and relationships. Therapy became a natural extension of that curiosity, a way of working more directly with lived experience rather than narrative alone.

In therapy, I offer a collaborative space where we slow down and explore what lives beneath long-standing patterns, especially the ones that feel hard to think or talk your way out of. I’m less interested in fixing you and more interested in understanding you. Meaningful change often happens when people feel deeply seen, understood, and met with curiosity and compassion.

Many of the people I work with are thoughtful and capable on the outside, yet internally experience anxiety, emotional overwhelm, self-doubt, or difficulty trusting themselves and others. Together, we gently explore these patterns and what they might be protecting or asking for, with the aim of building more self-trust, steadiness, and choice in how you relate to yourself and others.

If you’re curious whether this work might be a good fit, I invite you to schedule a free 20-minute consultation.

Looking for reflections on therapy, creativity, and personal growth? My blog explores the inner challenges of being human, especially for creatives, caretakers, and people trying to live with more honesty and self-understanding.