What inspired me to devote my professional life to this field was its hopeful, vital, valid message and powerful healing that brings about people's sense of gentleness, strength, and humanity. My formal education was significantly enriched by personal experiences that have humbled and graced me as a friend, mother, wife, and grandmother. All these encounters and their inherent dynamics made it clear that each of us seek the story of our life that makes sense and helps us live. As a psychotherapist, I wanted to empower my clients and give them a fresh opportunity to bring previously unknown aspects of themselves and their experiences and turn them into a story with the purpose to change.

My formal training prepared to me to turn psychotherapeutic relationships into powerful safe grounds where countless old, tired personal narratives have become resonant, grounded self-evident truths, opening the door to more meaningful lives. My approach is integrative allowing the inclusion of elements personalized for the client respecting the complexity of human behavior, and the impact of culture and social context on individual experience. It incorporates and emphasizes elements of emotional exploration, neurobiological mental processes, a disposition to identification and empathy, valuing of subjectivity and affect, appreciation of attachment, and a capacity for faith.