I love my job and feel honored to do this work.

Yes, I’m a highly sensitive person myself, sleeping ten hours a night, crying through most movies, and startling if someone sets a plate on the counter a tiny bit too hard. I’ve always run anxious, so I know what it’s like to watch your child bike away and think of all the ways they could die. I’ve experienced climate distress, obsessing over the environmental impact of every little purchase, but since I found Joanna Macy’s work, and my own role in the movement, I hold it all differently. I’m 48 years old, tumbling through the rapids of peri-menopause, and HRT has brought me back to myself.

I strive to connect with everyone, across difference, with lots of humility. I continue to learn how systems of oppression impact us psychologically, and I seek to understand the specific ways each person is affected.

I have been practicing psychiatry since 2010, learning something new every day. I am grateful to my teachers, friends, colleagues, mentors, and patients from Stanford, UCSF, San Mateo County Behavioral Health, the Institute for Health and Healing, San Francisco Jung Institute, and Baywell Psychiatry Group.