My name is Betel, and I’m a Registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist serving clients remotely in the state of California.

I work under the clinical supervision of Charles Rowell, LMFT 32378. Our collaborative home base is in the beautiful high desert town of Yucca Valley.

I received my MA in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. I also have an interdisciplinary BA in Language, Cognition, and Consciousness from Hunter College at the City University of New York. 



My clinical training began with a year in the Bay Area gestalt community. This existential worldview continues to influence the way I live, work, and relate to others. 



In addition to my ongoing clinical practice, my background also includes professional experience working as an integration coach for individuals engaging in at-home ketamine treatment. I am psychedelics informed and educated.

I am now in my 5th year as a therapist, and in that time have provided care in community, nonprofit, and private settings.

I took a circuitous path toward the field of psychotherapy. On the way to it, I spent formative time in local music and arts scenes, in transition as a traveler and seasonal employee, in the service industry, and in school as a student of psychology, philosophy, and anthropology.

This experiential path revealed to me a connecting thread, for which I am grateful — my enduring interest in other beings and the ways they share the stories of their lives. Deep humanistic curiosity continues as the foundation of my therapeutic work.

As a therapist and as a person, I feel a special kinship with people who create, seek, question, connect, struggle, and laugh.

My shadows have been some of my greatest teachers, and this influences the way I honor the challenges that clients face, too. I believe that relationship is central to existence, and that therapy can be a useful place to safely explore what that actually means in our lives.