Psychotherapy in California

About Lilly (she/her/hers):

I graduated from California State University Long Beach with a Bachelors in Human Development and a minor in Sociology. From there, I pursued my Masters in Social Work at Boston University. The social work field aligns with my interest and desire to see the whole individual, taking into account identities, family upbringing, and systems of oppression that can shape a person’s psyche. As a bicultural person growing up in a blended family, I am passionate about people being understood and witnessed in the layered experience of holding multiple identities.

I am dedicated to providing empathetic, trauma-informed, anti-racist, and LGBTQ+ affirming care to my clients. I am a social justice and liberation oriented provider, and am committing to the ongoing learning to ensure that there are sacred spaces of healing for people of marginalized identities. Experiencing the benefits of therapy myself has been vital in influencing how I work. I believe everyone deserves to be treated with compassion and feel more empowered through therapy.

Some of my personal interests include dancing, singing and music, being in nature, writing, photography, travel, social justice, and spiritual practices.

I acknowledge that I work and reside on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Chochenyo Ohlone peoples, who are the original inhabitants of Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area. As a non-Indigenous person occupying this land, I pay Shuumi Land Tax as a small way to support Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and their work to rematriate this land.