About Me

Hi, I'm Christina — a therapist based in Los Angeles, California. I offer in person sessions in Pasadena and telehealth to clients throughout California.

I believe that most of what drives our pain, our patterns, and our choices is happening beneath the surface, in the parts of ourselves we haven't fully seen yet. My job is to help you see them. Not to judge them, not to fix them from the outside, but to understand them from the inside, in a way that actually changes things.

I became a therapist because of my acute attunement to people, the ability to read a room, understand motivations, and sense what wasn't being said long before anyone said it.

The people I work with leave with more than insight. They come to understand ways in which they have always been worthy and enough. They become more whole versions of themselves, closer to who they actually are underneath everything they've been carrying. That is the work. And it is everything.

If I didn't have to work another day in my life, I would still choose to do this. What happens in this room is the most meaningful work I know of, and my clients feel that from the first session.

My Approach

I'm depth-oriented, which means I'm less interested in managing symptoms and more interested in understanding where they come from. Anxiety, depression, relationship patterns that keep repeating, grief that won't lift, a life that looks fine but feels hollow — these aren't random. They have roots. And when we find the roots, real change becomes possible.

Think of it as detective work for your inner world.

At the same time, I meet every client where they are. Some people need immediate, practical relief first — and I bring that too, drawing on EMDR, CBT, and somatic approaches depending on what you need and when you're ready. There's no rigid script, no one size fits all method. Everything is tailored to you — your pace, your history, your life.

My Background

I hold a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from UC San Diego and a Master's in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles, a program deeply rooted in humanistic and relational traditions. I stay current with evidence-based research because the work we do together deserves both soul and rigor.

What It's Like to Work With Me

People often tell me they appreciate that sessions don't feel like a performance. You don't have to arrive with the right words or have it figured out beforehand. You can show up exactly as you are and we'll work from there.

I care about the relationship we build as much as the techniques we use, because the research is clear: the therapeutic relationship itself is one of the most powerful drivers of change. You'll have a genuinely safe, judgment-free space — not as a platitude, but as a real commitment.

Outside the Office

I present as someone who has it all together. In many ways, I do. But I also know what it's like to carry something heavy quietly, while life continues on the outside looking exactly as it should.

For the past ten years, I have been caring for my mother, who has Parkinson's disease. It has been one of the most humbling experiences of my life — equal parts love, grief, helplessness, and showing up anyway. It has taught me things about endurance, about loss that arrives slowly, and about the particular exhaustion of loving someone through something you cannot fix.

That experience lives in the room with me. When clients sit across from me carrying something heavy quietly, while their own life looks exactly as it should from the outside — I am not guessing at what that feels like. I know. I've lived it too.