I am a licensed Marriage and Family therapist (CA #103605). In my private practice, I enjoy working with a wide range of people and issues and welcome individuals, couples, and fellow therapists. I am also a transman of mixed descent (Portuguese, Hawaiian, and German). I have spent a great deal of time in the “in between” both in my gender and in my cultural identities. This has allowed me the ability to hold a great deal of complexity, and a rather unique perspective on how we hold ourselves, and others in mind.

I enjoy working with people  grappling with life transitions, identity, attachment wounds, complex trauma, existential concerns, and those in search of a spiritual and psychological home. 

I also provide supervision/consultation for licensed and unlicensed therapists.  I have a particular interest in how trauma saturates organizations and the people working in them as well as how to collectively metabolize these effects. 

In addition to private practice,  I have been providing mental health services throughout the bay area, Maui, and Oregon since 1993 working in many community mental health settings including but not limited to: Walden House Adolescent Boys Facility, Catholic Charities, Larkin Street Youth Center, and Westcoast Children’s Clinic.

A good portion of my experience and training in community mental health has been working with transition aged youth exiting the foster care system, transitioning out of  inpatient psychiatric facilities, and youth experiencing homelessness due to caregiver rejection as a result of youth’s identity (gender, sexuality). I have also provided family therapy to a good portion of these youth and their caregivers/families. 

I received exceptional training from several of these institutions focusing on attachment, trauma, and psychodynamic approaches to community based work.