Love your dance. Love your life.

Do you want to claim your own creative voice? Do you want to enjoy meaningful erotic relationships of equal partners, on your own terms? Would you like to embrace yourself and others with more compassion, more intimacy, and more understanding?

I help clients embrace their own literal and metaphorical dances with curiosity and compassion. I hold a safe space for you to connect with your own journey, your own body, and your own artistic voice. Because we learn best when we play, when we explore, and when we trust ourselves as the authority on what's right for us.

I emphasize active listening, and developing compassionate, clear, and trustworthy communication between partners.

I offer tango therapy and counseling, for individuals and couples, online and in person. It's a whole-intelligence way of learning about our relationships with ourselves and with others, becoming mindful of our patterns, and exploring all the factors that come into play in all relationships. Trust, hope, fear, power, faith, curiosity, control, loss, gain, compassion, joy, vulnerability, social mores, old family stories, communication, need, desire, light and shadow...everything that defines us and everything that defines our relationships shows up when we dance. And many stories that are hard or impossible to reach with words come to light and evolve quickly when we explore them through dance. The mindfully-embodied world of therapeutic tango can transform your life if you choose to invite it in. And I'm here to guide you through it.

I am both a psychotherapist (CA AMFT#146160, CA APCC #16298) and a veteran tango teacher. California-based clients seeking ongoing tango therapy may work with me via the Center for Mindful Psychotherapy. Clients in all locations seeking short-term counseling may work with me privately.

If you are curious and would like to discuss how tango therapy or counseling can transform your life, please message me to schedule a free fifteen-minute phone call today!I help clients embrace their own dances with curiosity and compassion. I hold a safe space for you to connect with your own journey, your own body, and your own artistic voice. Because we learn best when we play, when we explore, and when we trust ourselves as the authority on what's right for us.

Some places I have taught include: Aosta, Berlin, Catania, Chicago, Lausanne, London, Los Angeles, Madison, New Orleans, Portland, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Seattle, and Tarbes.

Primary tango teachers include: Sebastian Arce, Jorge Torres, Virginia Pandolfi, Guillermo García, Samantha Dispari, Nikita Gerdt, Albano Goldenberg, and Ariadna Naveira.

My practice is informed by many cross-disciplinary in-depth practices, including but not limited to: the Alexander Technique, ballet, Feldenkrais, folk dance, Hakomi, martial arts, modern dance, Gyrotonics, structural integration, swimming, yoga, and Zen.

I love dj'ing milongas and private events. I create nights where everyone enjoys dancing to music they love, connects with themselves and with others, and goes home sated. I provide a balanced arc of old favourites and delicious surprises. Let me take your dancers on a journey of play, discovery, and seduction.

Bay Area: The Allegro, Harvey Milonga, North Beach Milonga, Milonga Tukis...and of course my own Milonga el Abrazo.

Elsewhere: Chicago, London, New Orleans, Madison, Valle d'Aosta, and more.