Therapy

serving ADULTS and TEENS anywhere in CALIFORNIA

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I work with…

  • Teens & Emerging Adults

    Life is changing fast for teens, college students, and young adults. Anxiety about school or first jobs is intense, relationships are confusing, emotions run high, and self-criticism is loud — all while their emotion-regulation and decision-making skills are still under development. (The prefrontal cortex is not fully developed until the late 20s.) These years are also when many mental health challenges tend to emerge, such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, and others. Many teens, families, and young adults find me to help support them with a specific issue or with the sheer overwhelm of this season of life.

  • Adults

    The middle decades of life can be a mental and emotional pressure cooker. You may be pouring yourself into a career, caring for a family, trying to stay afloat, trying to move forward. Perhaps you’re weighed down by the heavy load of your past or struggling to envision your future. Stressors, uncertainties, disappointments, and fears often pile up during this phase of life, usually with little time or space to tend to them. Therapy is a time and a space where you can breathe and be, and the support of a therapist can make all the difference in your ability to move through these demanding days with more ease.

  • Older Adults

    I don’t define when older adulthood begins — that’s up to you. This is because the later decades of life look different now than for past generations: you may be retired, or not; you may be dealing with health issues, or not; you may be losing loved ones and facing big transitions, or you may be carefree for the first time in your life. With so many life changes and identity shifts, this season is filled with both loss and possibility. I work with many older adults in therapy to help them navigate the inevitable changes that time brings and to support them as they continue growing, healing, and discovering themselves.

Healing is at the center of my approach to therapy. Freedom is at the heart.

You may feel stuck, trapped, weighed down, or helpless, but I believe in your immense capacity to heal, grow, and free yourself.

MY APPROACH

Trusting and Safe

We always begin our work in therapy by building a trusting relationship where you feel safe to share, feel, and explore. As we progress, we will weave together tools and techniques from a range of modalities — all designed to meet you where you are and open up possibilities for healing, change, and growth. This is an integrative, iterative process, and together we will focus on what is most resonant and effective for you.

Integrative and Skillful

The breadth of my training allows me to meet the moment with each client. One of your needs might be exploring how the past is showing up in your present, then healing and releasing the old wounds and inner scripts that prevent you from moving forward. Or it might be accepting a difficult reality together, then focusing on the strengths and agency you have to face it. Or it might be identifying where a new skill is needed, then learning and practicing it in session. Each of these calls for a different therapeutic lens, and my approach combines caring attunement with skillful practice in order to best support you on your path.

Trauma-Informed

My approach has also been shaped by years of providing therapy to hospice patients and their loved ones through the process of death and grieving. Through community outreach services, I also regularly served individuals reeling from sudden and traumatic losses. This work deepened my ability to provide trauma-sensitive care and to help clients face some of life’s most devastating and transformative seasons.

Clients come to me for support with…

  • ADHD

    Overwhelm or chaos in your life

    Emotional dysregulation

    Understanding an old or new ADHD diagnosis

    Healing negative stories about yourself

    Developing tools and skills for living with ADHD

  • Aging

    Identity transitions

    Changes in family roles and relationships

    Physical changes

    Grief and loss

    Healing old wounds and releasing old beliefs

    Purpose and meaning

  • Anxiety

    Frequent worrying or “overthinking”

    Racing thoughts

    Overwhelm

    Tension in the body

    Difficulty sleeping

  • Body Challenges

    Body image

    Chronic pain

    Disconnection from the body

    Eating struggles

    Coping with medical issues

  • Childhood Wounding

    Negative beliefs about yourself

    Patterns that don’t serve you anymore

    Difficult or traumatic childhood experiences

    Struggles in close relationships

    Outdated coping habits

  • Death & Dying

    Death of a loved one

    Preparing for death

    Invisible loss

    Stigmatized grief

    End-of-life caregiving

  • Depression

    Withdrawal from relationships and activities

    Sadness

    Irritability

    Physical pain or fatigue

    Hopelessness

  • Life Transitions

    Career evolution

    Empty nesting

    Family changes

    Identity shifts

    Losses

    Relationship transitions

  • Teens

    Identity exploration

    Academic pressure

    Social and friendship dynamics

    Family relationships

    Mental health struggles

  • Trauma, including C-PTSD

    Difficulty focusing

    Hypervigilance

    Irritability

    Emotional dysregulation or numbness

    Sleep issues

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I welcome an initial conversation to see if we are a good fit.

Please reach out to schedule a 30-minute consultation at no cost.

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