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I understand what it means to belong to more than one world.

I came to the Bay Area as an immigrant, and I have spent the last 33 years building a life here, across languages, cultures, and contexts. I grew up in Germany, originally from Romania, I am raising a multiracial daughter in the East Bay.

I understand, personally and not just professionally, what it means to belong to more than one world and not feel fully at home in neither.

I work with many clients who are carrying that particular weight: the pressure of being a first generation professional, the grief of dislocation, the complexity of family systems that don’t map onto American norms, the experience of being unseen or misread in space that were never build with you in mind.

If your family history, cultural context, immigration experience, or racial identity is part of what brings you to therapy, it belongs in this room. This isn’t a policy statement, it’s the orientation that shapes how Iisten.

My therapeutic approach is eclectic and informed by my experience:

• I use a strengths-based approach, working with everyone's unique abilities to help them express and discover themselves. 

• Based on individual and situational needs, I vary my approach from brief solution-focused therapy to a more humanistic/Gestalt oriented therapy. 

• My clients appreciate my transparent and interactive style, my warmth and compassionate approach.

Credentials
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) California Board of Behavioral Sciences, LCS 86189
Masters of Social Work – Gerontology
University of California, at Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts – Psychology
University of California, at Berkeley

Memberships & Education
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

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