I hold a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University and earned my Bachelor’s degree with honors from UCLA. My clinical training includes serving as a Mental Health Counselor at Southern California Counseling Center, where I supported adults with a wide range of concerns within a non-pathologizing, strength-based, and culturally responsive framework.

I work with individuals and couples who want to better understand themselves, their relationships, and the patterns that shape how they move through the world. I bring together my clinical training, lived experience, and more than a decade of teaching yoga to support this work. My approach is relational, attachment-focused, and body-aware, grounded in the belief that meaningful healing can happen through safe, attuned connection.

I’m especially interested in how early relationships, chronic stress, and anxiety can shape the ways we learn to relate to ourselves and others. Patterns like hypervigilance, over-functioning, people-pleasing, shutting down, or avoiding conflict may have made sense in earlier contexts, yet become difficult to shift later in life. Therapy offers a space to understand these patterns with curiosity rather than judgment and explore new ways of responding.

As a first-generation immigrant, I moved to the United States from Russia at age three, and I hold particular care for the layered experiences of immigration, cultural identity, and intergenerational expectations. Navigating family traditions alongside the culture around you can shape how you understand belonging, responsibility, relationships, and your own needs. These experiences can carry both challenges and strengths, and I believe they deserve space in the therapy room.

In our work together, we attend to both inner experience and relational patterns—how emotions show up in the body, how connection is sought or avoided, and how past experiences may influence present-day relationships. Whether working individually or as a couple, therapy becomes a place to slow down, feel supported, and practice new ways of relating to yourself and the people you care about.