About Me

My Story

Before becoming a therapist, I spent nearly two decades in law, institutional finance, technology, and entrepreneurship.

I began my career in structured finance and investment banking, with senior roles at Goldman Sachs and the Royal Bank of Scotland. I later went into technology, serving as General Counsel and Head of Product at start-ups, including Figure and RoofStock, that grew rapidly and reached unicorn valuations. I also had the privilege of co-founding FinDox and serving as its President. The company was later acquired.

Those years gave me experience with businesses at very different stages, complex financial and legal problems, leadership, risk, and decisions with significant consequences. I worked alongside founders, investors, attorneys, bankers, engineers, and executives, and had the opportunity to build companies, manage people, negotiate, take risks, make mistakes, and learn from all of it.

By the time I left that career, I had achieved the professional and financial success I had worked toward. More importantly, I had the freedom to ask myself how I wanted to spend the next part of my life.

When I had the freedom to do anything, I chose psychotherapy.

I returned to graduate school and earned my M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University, followed by Ph.D. coursework in Clinical Sexology. I immersed myself in clinical training in relationships, trauma, intimacy, attachment, and the ways people change.

Before private practice, I trained at Exodus Recovery, a residential crisis facility working with clients in acute psychiatric and addiction crises. That experience gave me clinical experience with serious mental health concerns, substance use, trauma, and people under significant stress.

I love being a therapist. I am deeply interested in how people become who they are, what drives us, how we make decisions, why we repeat patterns we understand perfectly well, what happens between people who love each other, and how our priorities change over the course of a life.

The people I work with learn to understand what they feel, ask for what they need, and recognize the patterns that keep repeating in their relationships and their own lives. They become better partners, better parents, and more honest versions of themselves.

My first career also gives me context for the lives many of my clients lead. I understand businesses, demanding careers, financial complexity, leadership, risk, and consequential decisions. Clients rarely need to translate that world for me. I understand the context. I still want to understand the person.