If you’re feeling sadness, searching for meaning in your life, feeling lost, or conflicted between what you feel and what life demands of you, you’re not alone. I work with individuals, couples, first responders, military personnel, veterans, and their families in Fresno and across California who are actively grieving a person, role, or relationship that once gave their life shape.

My clients often carry emotional depth, complexity, and ambivalence, and they’re looking for a therapist who is comfortable sitting with pain without rushing to fix it, explain it away, or force it into positivity. They want someone who will help them understand themselves more clearly and find their way forward with honesty and compassion.

In our work together, you’ll find a space where you’re truly understood, especially if you serve others in your work. I’m an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT), California Registration #141376, with a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fresno Pacific University. I specialize in working with first responders, military personnel, veterans, and their families, understanding the unique stressors you face both on the job and at home. I’m EMDR-trained, Gottman Method-trained for couples, and a Trauma-Informed Care Specialist.

I am attuned and curiously reflective, helping you feel seen and understood before supporting you in moving into your chosen path of change. My approach is both empathetic and honest, helping you name your truth while building insight and confidence in making decisions and meaning that is true to yourself.

I work deeply with individuals, couples, first responders, veterans, and families navigating grief processing, relationship conflict, boundary building, identity and values exploration, and depressive symptoms. Whether you’re processing painful life experiences or PTSD, working through relationship challenges as a couple, managing career burnout, or seeking meaning after loss, I help you understand the patterns beneath the surface. I work well with emotional depth, complexity, and ambivalence. There is a season for everything, and we already carry the strengths we need to move through each one.

My approach is warm, curious, gentle, insightful, and calm. I’m curious, reflective, and exploratory, and I prefer open-ended and depth-oriented work rather than protocol-heavy approaches. Change tends to happen when you’re open to question and accept your truths, rather than avoid or silence pieces of yourself.

Change happens when you view yourself holistically and honor each part of yourself without judgment, developing greater self-compassion and healing. You’ll work collaboratively to celebrate progress and adjust as needed. This is your process, and I walk alongside you with skill and genuine care.

What I consistently help people move toward is keener self-direction, with a better understanding of self, emotional clarity, and deeper grounding in personal values, structure, goals, and life decisions. You’ll feel more grounded in yourself and your decisions and what really matters in your life.

You’ll feel confident in managing and understanding your pain, rather than running from it, and you’ll recognize more meaning, strive confidently toward personal goals, and become more intentional about the quality of relationships in your life. You’ll feel more aligned and confident moving forward.

Serving Fresno, Clovis, Madera, and the Central Valley, with online therapy available throughout California. Supervised by Constance Leger, LCSW (California License #76698) at Relationship Counseling Center of California.