Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with an extraordinarily wide range of people, relationships and families.

My clients have included individuals, couples and families; parents of young children and parents navigating relationships with adult children; people preparing for marriage, building families, questioning relationships, navigating divorce and rebuilding afterward.

I work across different cultures, identities, sexual orientations and relationship structures, including heterosexual and LGBTQ+ clients, monogamous couples, and people in consensually non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships.

Professionally, I have worked with people early in their careers as well as technology professionals, physicians, executives, entrepreneurs, founders, business owners, influencers, public figures and highly visible professionals. I also work with plenty of people who would simply describe themselves as the person next door who wants better relationships, greater confidence, clearer direction or a more satisfying life.

I have supported clients through marriage, parenthood, divorce, career changes, professional growth, major life transitions, identity shifts and significant decisions. I also work with entrepreneurs at the beginning of an idea and established business owners navigating growth, leadership, staffing and the increasingly complex decisions that come with success.

The circumstances vary, but the work often comes back to the same things: understanding yourself, communicating effectively, regulating emotion, making thoughtful decisions, strengthening relationships and developing the skills to handle what comes next.

My clinical training began with practicum and early professional experience at LifeWorks in Austin, where I developed experience within a community-based setting and deepened the systemic and relational perspective that continues to shape my work.

I have been in private practice since 2015, working with individuals, couples, families, and organizations across a broad range of concerns and stages.

My work frequently includes communication and relationship patterns, emotional regulation, anxiety and stress, life transitions, family dynamics, parenting, identity, conflict, intimacy, divorce and separation, professional pressures and the patterns that keep people from moving forward.

I tend to work actively and collaboratively. Understanding where something came from can be important, and insight is only part of the work. We also identify what needs to change, build the skills to change it and determine what you can actually do differently in real life.

EDUCATION, CREDENTIALS & SPECIALIZED TRAINING

B.A. Psychology
Eastern Connecticut State University
Concentration in Children & Adolescence

M.A. Marriage & Family Therapy

M.A. Professional Counseling

M.A. International Law & Human Rights

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Positive Discipline Parenting Certified Coach

Advanced Training in Cultural Competence

Ongoing Training in Neuroscience & Human Behavior

My education and training allow me to understand human behavior through multiple lenses—including individual psychology, child and adolescent development, mental health, relationships, family systems, culture and larger social systems.

Neuroscience has become an important foundation for my work, particularly in understanding emotional regulation, stress, recurring behavioral patterns, relationships and sustainable change. Combined with advanced cultural competence and systemic training, it helps me look beyond symptoms to understand the person, their environment and the patterns influencing what happens next.

Much of my consulting work is confidential, so I do not identify clients or organizations publicly. What I can share is the range of problems I have been brought in to help solve.

My consulting experience has included work with small businesses, startups, established organizations, entrepreneurs, leadership teams and political campaigns. Depending on the situation, my role may involve organizational strategy, leadership dynamics, staff development, communication, conflict resolution, business structure, brand clarity or helping someone turn a strong idea into something workable.

I have trained employees and managers in professional skills including communication, interpersonal effectiveness, conflict management and navigating difficult workplace dynamics. I have also worked inside organizations undergoing significant change—evaluating how people, roles and responsibilities fit together, redesigning workflows and organizational structures, and helping leadership teams prepare for growth.

In one startup engagement, I developed a comprehensive organizational flow and restructuring plan while also mediating conflict within the C-suite. The goal was not simply to resolve interpersonal tension, but to create a leadership structure capable of supporting the company's next stage of growth. The company ultimately grew and was successfully sold.

I have also worked with entrepreneurs who needed to step back from the day-to-day noise and clarify what they were actually building, why it mattered and how they wanted to position it. That work can involve refining a brand, defining mission and vision, identifying priorities and helping founders make decisions that align the business with the larger direction they want to create.

Not every consulting engagement happens inside a traditional company. I have advised creative professionals as well—including consulting with an author during the development of her first novel, helping her accurately develop a therapist character and coaching her through the process of completing and publishing the book. She is now writing her second.

I have also served as a strategic consultant within a political campaign, working in a fast-moving environment where communication, competing priorities, leadership, public messaging, personalities and high-stakes decision-making all intersect.

The industries and presenting problems vary considerably. The common thread is usually the same: something important needs to work better.

My job is to understand the people, the structure and the larger system; identify where things are getting stuck; and help create a practical strategy for what comes next.

Sometimes that means developing people. Sometimes it means changing the process. Sometimes it means restructuring the system itself. Usually, it involves some combination of all three.

My work with professionals and executives is focused on the person carrying the responsibility—not just the role they perform.

I work with leaders, physicians, attorneys, technology professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners and other high-performing professionals who want thoughtful, confidential support for navigating the demands of work and life with greater clarity and less strain.

The work can be highly practical. We may prepare for an important conversation, role-play a difficult meeting, think through a major decision, work on communication or leadership style, navigate a career transition, or develop better ways to manage stress, conflict and responsibility.

But this is also a place to decompress.

Many people in demanding roles spend most of their time being the person everyone else relies on. It can be difficult to find a space where you do not have to lead, solve, perform or protect anyone else from what you are really thinking.

Our work can provide that space—a confidential sounding board where you can talk openly, sort through what is happening, vent when you need to, test an idea, question a decision, regain perspective or simply put some of what you are carrying down for a while.

Sometimes we are strategizing. Sometimes we are working on a skill. Sometimes you need someone intelligent and objective to help you think something through. And sometimes you simply need a place to process life before taking all of it home.

My background in psychology, relationships, neuroscience and human systems allows us to move easily between the professional and personal pieces of your life. Work affects relationships. Relationships affect work. Stress changes how we communicate and make decisions. Very little happens in isolation.

The goal is not simply to perform better. It is to have a place where you can think clearly, feel supported and become more effective and intentional across your life as a whole.

I bring the perspective of someone who has built businesses as well as advised the people running them.

In addition to developing my own private practice, I helped open and build Freedom Eye Care with Soroush, a business that continues to operate successfully today.

That experience gave me firsthand exposure to the realities behind entrepreneurship: building something from the ground up, customer experience, operations, staffing, leadership, growth, decision-making and the challenge of creating a healthy culture while also creating a successful business.

It is one reason my work with entrepreneurs and business owners tends to be highly practical. A solution has to make sense psychologically, relationally and operationally.

Teaching and speaking have been an important part of my work throughout my career—and I genuinely enjoy it.

I have spoken at conferences and events, worked with professional groups and leadership teams, and spent approximately four years providing training and professional development for staff and management across City of Austin departments.

My topics have included effective communication, navigating difficult personalities, conflict management, emotional intelligence, leadership, interpersonal effectiveness, stress management, workplace relationships and professional skill development, along with a much broader range of topics related to psychology, relationships, human behavior, personal growth and the way people function together.

I do not believe learning something new has to feel like homework.

My goal is to make training engaging, intelligent, practical and enjoyable. I like humor. I like interaction. I like helping people recognize themselves in what we are talking about, understand why something happens, and leave with ideas or skills they can actually use rather than a notebook full of information they will never look at again.

Depending on the audience, the work can be educational, highly interactive, skills-based or a combination of all three. I can tailor presentations and trainings around the needs of a particular organization, team or event rather than forcing every audience into the same presentation.

Whether I am speaking to a small leadership group or a room of several hundred people, the goal is the same: make complex ideas about people understandable, memorable and useful—and have some fun while we are learning them.

Learning works better when people actually want to be in the room.

I provide clinical supervision for LMFT Associates, as well as professional consultation and advanced skill development for non-supervisee clinicians who want to strengthen the way they think and work beyond the supervision process itself.

Supervision is an opportunity to strengthen clinical judgment, deepen systemic thinking, build confidence and learn to manage the very human realities of sitting across from another person and working with them.

We look at the client and the therapeutic relationship, the clinician and the larger systems surrounding the work. I also bring in perspectives from neuroscience, coaching, communication, and practical skill-building, which often gives supervisees additional ways to understand clients and create meaningful change.

Supervision with me is interactive, curious and enjoyable. We may talk through a case, role-play a difficult conversation, explore interventions, look at what is happening in the room between therapist and client, or step back and consider the larger systemic picture. There is room to ask questions, experiment, challenge ideas and develop your own point of view.

The process should also evolve over time. Early supervision may involve more teaching, structure and direct support. As your confidence and clinical judgment grow, my role shifts toward helping you sharpen your thinking, trust your instincts and become increasingly independent in your work.

My goal is not to create clinicians who practice exactly the way I do. It is to help you develop your own clinical mind, your own voice and your own way of working—with the judgment, flexibility and confidence to think well and work effectively long after our work together ends.