Depth-Oriented Therapist for Black Women in Los Angeles

I am a cisgendered Black woman with ancestral roots in the southern United States and Central America. I carry that lineage into every room I enter, including this one.

I am also a self-identified recovering perfectionist with lived experience as a classical Russian ballet dancer and four-year NCAA Division I varsity athlete. I know what it is to offer your body, your discipline, your relentless capacity as proof of your worth. I know what it costs. And I know what becomes possible when you stop paying that particular debt.

I hold a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California, with a concentration in Social Change and Innovation. My training is inseparable from my politics: I work from frameworks rooted in abolitionism, anti-capitalism, decolonialism, and womanism — not as academic accessories, but as lenses that tell the truth about why so many of us are exhausted, and what healing actually requires.

Over the past 10+ years, I have worked alongside individuals, families, and communities in schools, residential treatment, and at the federal level of government — from crisis stabilization to self-actualization. I currently maintain a caseload through NEST Harm Reduction's group psychotherapy practice.

I believe that self-devotion is not selfishness. It is the work.

I believe that overfunctioning (the relentless giving, managing, producing, performing) is not a character flaw. I see it as an adaptation. As a collection of decisions that made sense once. And it is costing you something you cannot afford to keep paying.

I believe that joy is not a reward for your productivity. That your unique expression — your strangeness, your glory, your fullness — is not something to be managed or minimized but something to be inhabited, celebrated, and if necessary, defended.

I believe that when we each build a life worth living, we are doing our part to build the world we want to be living in. That the personal and the political are not separate projects. That your healing is, quietly and insistently, an act of resistance.

I am not here to help you cope better within a life that was never built for your full self. I am here to help you imagine, and then inhabit, something truer.