I am psychologist, licensed in the state of California (PSY 26407).  I specialize in working with trauma and offering psychedelic assisted therapy (as it becomes legal). I create a safe, warm, and nonjudgmental environment in which you can feel comfortable being yourself. I take a holistic approach to my work, with an underlying belief that the mind, emotions, body, and spirit are interconnected. My gentle curiosity and compassionate understanding support you in sorting through confusion, overcoming challenges, improving relationships, and becoming more authentically yourself. I am a meditation practitioner and incorporate mindfulness into my work. I am a therapist for the MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD trials sponsored by MAPS and offer ketamine assisted psychotherapy. I have experience working with people with a wide range of backgrounds and identities and am sensitive to issues of cultural trauma and systemic oppression.

Resulting from my lifelong interest in holistic and equatable healthcare and passion for social justice, I’ve dedicated the past few years to founding Sage Integrative Health and its sister nonprofit organization, Sage Institute.

Sage Integrative Health, located in South Berkeley, is an integrative psychedelic clinic that offers a range of holistic modalities using a collaborative, client-centered approach. Our caring and skilled practitioners work in concert to provide a network of care that supports the body, mind, and spirit, creating a powerful alternative to the fragmented and de-personalized mainstream healthcare system. Our offerings include mental health, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, bodywork, nutrition, herbs, naturopathic medicine, ketamine-assisted therapy, and limited MDMA-assisted therapy through the Expanded Access program. We hold these powerful medicines with integrity, strong ethics and a high standard of care, and a deep respect for the indigenous and pagan traditions who first used entheogenic plants for healing purposes.

Sage Institute was developed as a response to the increasingly glaring need for an accessible model for psychedelic-assisted therapy as it becomes legal and assimilated into the mainstream. The Institute houses a sliding scale clinic and offers rigorous training for psychotherapy interns. The training model is grounded in depth psychotherapy and trauma-informed care. We developed Sage Institute to be in active dialogue with issues of diversity, accessibility, and social justice, offering psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to communities who have been excluded from the psychedelic movement and, through the drug war, targeted and criminalized for involvement with mind-altering substances.

 * Please note that the psychedelic-assisted therapy that is currently legally available is ketamine-assisted therapy, which we offer to those who are approved for treatment by a medical provider. We do not offer treatment with any illegal substances.