About Me
I'm a licensed psychologist whose primary passion is helping young adults navigate their intersecting identities, career paths, relationships, core values, and life purpose.
I believe that self-knowledge is the key to freedom and power. I can help you identify, challenge, and replace self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors, and shed internalized prejudiced messages.
I provide continuing and comprehensive mental and behavioral health care for individuals and consultation to agencies & communities; training, education, and supervision in research-based practice. I also host a variety of workshops addressing topics of imposter phenomenon, procrastination, perfectionism, burnout, cross-cultural communication, and resiliency.
Specializing in Treating Perfectionism, Imposter Phenomenon, Burnout
and Procrastination
Perfectionism
A lot of perfectionists have no idea they are perfectionists. They associate perfectionism with overworking, overthinking, or being hyper-focused on a goal, a task, or an idea.
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Although overworking, overthinking, and hyper-focusing are signs of perfectionism, so is avoidance, giving up quickly, and purposefully putting in a low effort on things that matter to you. Procrastination is another indicator.
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Perfectionism is not a mental illness. However, being a perfectionist can leave you vulnerable to a host of mental health illnesses including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and even suicidality.
Burnout
“Burnout” describes the feeling people have when they lack motivation or incentive.
People who are burnt out often say that they have nothing left. They have no energy or no desire to go to work or engage in other activities—even those things they used to love doing.
Where these individuals once felt a sense of curiosity and excitement, they now have feelings of dread. And these feelings do not go away, even after taking a weekend off or going on vacation.
Imposter Phenomenon
​Imposter phenomenon is really about what happens when a person has impossible standards of intelligence or competence such that they rarely or ever meet their own standards. As a result, they attribute their success to luck, to timing, or to making an extraordinary effort to fool others into believing that they are more intelligent than they believe themselves to be.
Imposter phenomenon can express itself as discomfort in sharing thoughts or ideas. Sometimes people go to great lengths to avoid detection, which means never share their ideas, and they avoid—even sabotage—opportunities that come their way.
Procrastination
Procrastination is a conscious decision to delay or not complete a task you were planning to do. Instead, a procrastinator will do something of lesser importance despite the presence of negative consequences of not following through on the original task or goal.