Services
Therapy and coaching for people who lead, perform, and carry heavy responsibility. Whether you’re navigating burnout, transition, trauma, a shift in performance or leadership strain, my work focuses on helping you regain clarity, resilience, and purpose.
I offer in-person sessions in Pasadena, California, and telehealth appointments in California, Washington, and Indiana.
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Executive Coaching
Leadership requires clarity, composure, and adaptability under pressure. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and experience with executive and special operations, I help clients strengthen insight, resilience, and performance to lead with confidence and purpose.
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Therapy for High Performers
For professionals navigating pressure, burnout, or emotional fatigue. Strategic therapy to restore focus, leadership, and personal balance.
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ADHD & Executive Function Support
For adults managing attention, organization, or task-initiation challenges. Sessions focus on understanding your cognitive patterns and learning practical tools for time management, focus, and self-regulation — helping you channel your drive productively rather than feeling overwhelmed by it.
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Leadership Assessment
Designed for executives and professionals who want deeper self-awareness, my leadership assessment provides insight into how you think, communicate, and lead under pressure.
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Therapy for Student Athletes & High Achievers
Drawing on performance psychology and my experience working with elite military and high-performing professionals, I help young athletes develop the mental skills to perform under pressure, recover from setbacks, and build lifelong resilience.
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Evidence-based Trauma-informed Treatment
I provide trauma-informed therapy that integrates evidence-based approaches like CPT, PE, EMDR, WET, and Narrative Exposure tailored to each client’s pace, goals, and readiness for healing.
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Cognitive Rehab for Memory Loss & Caregiver Therapy
With geriatric and neuropsychology experience from UCLA, I offer cognitive rehab for memory loss and support for caregivers coping with the challenges of aging and cognitive change.
Executive Coaching
My executive coaching combines the precision of clinical psychology with the practical frameworks of leadership development. Certified through the Center for Executive Coaching, I work with corporate executives, physicians, and military leaders to strengthen self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and decision-making under pressure. Together, we examine the patterns that shape your performance — how you lead, communicate, and recover — and use evidence-based tools to build clarity, composure, and adaptability.
Grounded in psychology, neuroscience, and performance science, my approach bridges insight and action. Drawing on years of experience supporting leaders in high-stakes and operational environments, I help clients align personal values with professional goals, enhance communication and influence, and prevent burnout while sustaining excellence. The outcome is more than leadership growth — it’s the ability to lead with confidence, balance, and authenticity in demanding contexts.
Therapy for High Performers
High performers are often the people everyone else relies on — decisive, disciplined, and steady under pressure. Yet the same traits that make you effective can also make it difficult to slow down, ask for help, or recover from stress. Over time, the system that once fueled success can begin to break down, showing up as irritability, fatigue, anxiety, or loss of focus.
Individual therapy provides a private, strategic space to recalibrate. Together, we’ll identify the internal and external pressures driving exhaustion and create practical ways to restore balance and clarity. Drawing on neuroscience, performance psychology, and trauma-informed care, sessions are designed to help you regulate under pressure, manage burnout, and reconnect with the motivation that once came naturally.
This work isn’t about stepping back — it’s about learning to sustain performance without losing yourself in the process.
ADHD & Executive Function Support for Adults
Attention-deficit and executive-function challenges in adulthood often look different than they do in childhood. Many adults with ADHD or related traits are highly capable, creative, and driven—but still struggle with organization, follow-through, time awareness, or managing competing demands. For professionals and high performers, these challenges can quietly erode confidence and lead to chronic stress or burnout.
My work with adults focuses on understanding how your brain processes information, motivation, and emotion so that we can build strategies tailored to your unique strengths. Drawing on evidence-based treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), behavioral activation, and structured time-management frameworks, sessions address skills like planning, prioritization, emotional regulation, and task initiation. Research consistently shows that targeted CBT interventions can improve attention, reduce procrastination, and increase follow-through in adults with ADHD.
In addition to therapy, I integrate ADHD coaching principles that emphasize real-world application. Together, we’ll develop systems for managing deadlines, sustaining focus, and improving productivity while protecting mental energy. The goal is not to “fix” attention, but to work with your brain rather than against it—channeling your natural drive into consistent, effective action.
Because ADHD often co-exists with anxiety or perfectionism, treatment also includes strategies to calm the nervous system and re-establish confidence in your ability to perform. Many clients find that these approaches lead not only to better focus, but also to a renewed sense of control, satisfaction, and creative engagement.
Leadership Assessment
Leadership effectiveness depends as much on self-awareness as it does on skill. Even the most capable leaders develop habits of communication, decision-making, and stress response that shape how others experience them — for better or worse.
Understanding those internal patterns is the first step toward intentional, sustainable leadership.
Drawing from my experience conducting assessment and selection within U.S. military and special operations units, I offer a leadership assessment designed for professionals who want to understand how they operate — and how they impact those around them. This process brings the same depth, structure, and precision once reserved for elite operational settings into the civilian and professional leadership sphere.
A Data-Driven Approach to Self-Awareness
This comprehensive assessment combines psychological measures, performance frameworks, and structured feedback to illuminate the factors that drive your leadership style. We explore how you make decisions, communicate under stress, manage interpersonal dynamics, and sustain effectiveness over time.
Rather than relying on generic personality tests or corporate models, this evaluation is grounded in clinical and performance psychology, drawing from validated methods used in both organizational and operational contexts. The process provides a multi-dimensional profile that examines cognitive style, motivation, interpersonal influence, adaptability, and resilience.
The result is a nuanced understanding of your leadership patterns — where they help you excel, and where they may limit growth or impact collaboration.
Insight That Becomes Action
You’ll gain a clearer understanding of how you approach challenges, motivate others, manage pressure, and navigate complex environments. Each participant receives a personalized report and one-on-one debrief designed to translate insight into action.
The feedback process highlights core strengths, blind spots, and behavioral tendencies, offering concrete, evidence-based strategies to enhance performance, decision-making, and emotional intelligence.
Whether you lead a clinical team, command a unit, or run an organization, this assessment helps you align your leadership approach with your values, goals, and the realities of your environment.
Who It’s For
This assessment is ideal for:
Executives and organizational leaders seeking deeper insight into their leadership impact
Physicians and healthcare leaders balancing technical excellence with emotional and team leadership
Entrepreneurs and business owners navigating rapid growth or organizational change
Military and public-sector leaders transitioning to or refining civilian leadership roles
Clients often use this assessment as a foundation for executive coaching or leadership development plans, creating a measurable path toward professional growth.
The Takeaway
Leadership isn’t just about authority or achievement — it’s about awareness, adaptability, and alignment. This assessment gives you the tools to understand yourself the way high-performing organizations understand their teams: with precision, honesty, and clarity.
You’ll walk away with a personalized leadership profile, practical recommendations, and a renewed sense of direction — not only in how you lead, but in how you continue to evolve.
Therapy for Student Athletes and High Achievers
For many young athletes, the demands of performance can feel relentless — constant evaluation, high expectations, and little room for error. These pressures can sharpen focus and motivation, but when left unchecked, they may also lead to anxiety, perfectionism, and burnout. Learning to work with these responses — rather than fight them — can transform anxiety into a powerful tool for focus and confidence.
Drawing on my experience supporting elite performers, including members of U.S. special operations units, I help athletes understand and train their mental systems just as they train their physical ones. Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and evidence-based performance psychology, sessions focus on increasing self-awareness, regulating anxiety, and improving focus and recovery.
CBT research shows that how we interpret stress directly shapes performance. Studies demonstrate that athletes who learn to reframe anxiety as readiness — rather than threat — experience greater composure, faster recovery, and more consistent results (Birrer & Morgan, 2010; Turner & Barker, 2014). Through this lens, anxiety becomes information — a cue that the body is preparing to perform — and with the right tools, it can be redirected toward precision and control.
Each session integrates techniques from neuroscience and performance psychology, such as visualization, structured breathing, and cognitive reframing, all tailored to the athlete’s developmental stage and sport. These methods help young performers manage the mental side of competition, maintain composure under pressure, and build lasting resilience.
The goal isn’t just to compete better — it’s to create a mindset that supports both performance and well-being. With the right strategies, athletes can thrive in competition while protecting their confidence, identity, and love of the game.
Parents often reach out when they notice their child’s motivation, confidence, or enjoyment of their sport starting to change. Therapy provides a safe, constructive space for young athletes to regain perspective, develop healthy coping tools, and build the psychological skills that support excellence — in competition and beyond.
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Healing from trauma begins with safety — the sense that you are seen, heard, and in control of the process. My approach to trauma therapy is evidence-based and collaborative. I am trained in the leading trauma treatments, including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Written Exposure Therapy (WET), and Narrative Exposure Therapy. Each of these modalities is supported by extensive clinical research and has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing post-traumatic stress symptoms and improving quality of life.
Rather than following a single formula, I integrate these approaches based on where the person is in their healing process. Some clients benefit from structured cognitive work to challenge beliefs about guilt or responsibility; others begin with techniques that reduce physiological distress before exploring the trauma story in depth. This flexible, evidence-based integration ensures that therapy moves at a pace that feels safe and effective — never forced or premature.
I have extensive experience treating combat trauma, moral injury, and sexual assault, including work with veterans, active-duty military, and survivors of interpersonal and institutional trauma. My background in military psychology has reinforced a simple truth: trauma does not define a person — it reflects what they’ve endured, not who they are. Therapy helps clients reconnect with that distinction, reclaiming agency and rebuilding trust in themselves and others.
In every session, the client drives the direction and intensity of the work. My role is to provide structure, evidence-based tools, and a grounded presence that allows the nervous system to recalibrate and the mind to integrate what has happened. Recovery is not about erasing the past; it’s about reducing its grip so you can live with more freedom, purpose, and peace.
Whether the trauma stems from combat, loss, or violation, healing is possible through compassion, structure, and science. My goal is to help you move from survival to restoration — at your pace, and on your terms.
Cognitive Rehabilitation & Caregiver Therapy
Cognitive changes, whether related to aging, medical conditions, or neurological illness, can affect memory, attention, and problem-solving in ways that impact daily life and relationships. I provide cognitive rehabilitation to help individuals strengthen these abilities, build compensatory strategies, and maintain independence for as long as possible.
Drawing on my experience in neuropsychology and geriatrics at UCLA’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Medical Psychological Assessment Center, I use evidence-based techniques to support clients experiencing mild cognitive impairment, early dementia, or brain injury. Each program is tailored to the individual’s needs and strengths, focusing on practical strategies for attention, organization, and memory retention — skills that can make everyday life more manageable and meaningful.
Equally important, I provide therapy and support for caregivers navigating the emotional, relational, and logistical challenges that come with caring for a loved one. Caregiving can bring exhaustion, grief, and guilt, even as it reflects deep love and commitment. Sessions offer a space to process those feelings, set boundaries, and find realistic strategies for self-care and resilience.
My goal is to help both individuals and families find stability, compassion, and confidence in the face of cognitive change, restoring not only function, but also connection, dignity, and hope.