You can’t slow your thoughts down.

Whether it’s replaying something from the past or worrying about what might happen in the future, your thoughts are running at full speed all the time.

 It can be hard to switch gears when your brain gets stuck on an idea. And even harder to quiet your mind at the end of the day.

The way you speak to yourself is unkind.

If something bad happens, it’s your fault. But even when you do something great, you either figure out a way to not take credit for it or find the one flaw and focus on that instead.

You’re positive and supportive to everyone else in your life, but when it comes to your relationship with yourself, you only know how to be critical.

Over time you’ve developed a high tolerance for emotional pain.

Feeling intense anxiety, stress, depression, or pain from a triggered trauma, has become your new normal. Sure, the pandemic may have made things worse, but the truth is you were in distress long before that.

You can tolerate a lot of pain, so you tell yourself that things could always be much worse. And really, you’re not sure you deserve to feel any better.

Let’s retrain that very active brain.

I love your hardworking brain – it’s a beautiful thing. When you work with me in therapy, we explore how to harness that energy towards the meaningful things in your life.

We learn how to retrain your brain to avoid these obsessive loops you get caught in. We find ways for you to treat yourself better, so you can still work hard while learning to appreciate what you do and who you are.

Why I do what I do.

I started Echo Park Creative Psychology, Inc. in 2018 to create a healing community for other therapists who are almost or newly licensed.

Working by myself in private practice was a great experience, but I wanted to empower other therapists to do the same thing. 

If we want to heal our community's broken systems, we must work at it on multiple levels. Working with LGTBTQ+ and/or BIPOC clients is one level of community healing, and providing an affirmative work environment for LGTBTQ+ and/or BIPOC therapists is another level.

Me outside the office.

Where can you find me when I’m not at work? Most afternoons, I’m probably in the backyard with my kids. If it’s baseball season, I’m over at Dodger Stadium.

 I do a lot of thinking at work, so in my free time, I try to move my body (walking, yoga, spin classes) or have some physical self-care like massages.