All of us have experienced loss, anger, loss of control, impulsiveness, and communication problems. If these experiences are discussed in a safe environment with a competent therapist, they can be used to mature and create the life we want. If ignored with distractions such as overwork, alcoholdrugs, food, sex, and internetTV, unresolved issues can remain stuck in our bodies and minds, wreaking havoc at unexpected times (for example, a sudden panic attack). Clients need a therapist who has done a significant amount of their own inner worktherapy. As Carl Jung once stated, "It's not what you know that heals your clients, it's who you are." Authenticity cannot be faked....most people can sense this quickly. I am committed to being real, as well as actively involved in my clients' growth process. I have also done my own personal psychotherapy as I believe this is necessary to be effective in counseling. How can you help clients if you haven't experienced your own individual counseling? Many clients have commented on their preference for my ability to balance talking with listening. I don't "just sit there and listen, nodding my head occasionally." I am fully engaged, providing honest feedback and support.

In a safe, confidential environment I help you examine those aspects of life that are not working for you and assists you in developing your own solutions to those problems. I have listened to clients over 45.000 hour since I started my private practice and I am known for my ability to uncover core issues rapidly and help you generate breakthroughs with sustainable results. My direct approach allows you to make the necessary changes in your life within a short period of time. I am very interactive and I share my thoughts with you as we work together. I will point to books, podcasts and videos that may speed up your self discovery process.

Psychotherapy offers a time and place where the past and present converge to create a self for a desired future. If you are not feeling like yourself or are not meeting your personal standards in life, I encourage you to reach out. My style could be described as empathic, collaborative, investigative, and down-to-earth.

Licensed and trained as a clinical psychologist and a Marriage Family Therapist, I have worked with both individuals and couples for over forty years. My approach is collaborative, helping develop insight into unconsciously held beliefs as well as generating strategies to cope with the stresses and challenges of life. I have an interest in both long and brief psychotherapy, depression, the anxiety spectrum, graduate student population, and relationship issues.

I offer therapy that can be a turning point, whether you are moving through difficult struggles or the everyday challenges of life—navigating relationships, questions of who you are and where you’re going, new pressures and demands, or whatever is getting in your way of achieving your goals. My evidence-based approach uncovers what drives the patterns at the root, so you can create lasting change, and a clear way forward. My training as a therapist was at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology, repeatedly ranked a top U.S. program by the National Center for Education Statistics, and noted for its research-informed training. As a former National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) scholar-athlete, I know firsthand the dynamics of ambition, resilience, and interactions between the mind and body. My own queer identity informs my deep commitment to supporting clients in exploring their identities and navigating relationships with family and community. I love my profession as a therapist. It would be a privilege to have the opportunity to walk alongside you to navigate complexity and growth. I work at Archive, a company dedicated to raising standards in therapy. We bring together rigorously trained professionals and provide therapy that is thoughtful, structured, and focused on lasting impact. Based on the idea that “you can only help someone as far as you have gone yourself,” my colleagues and I seek to be on our own journey of growth, learning from great psychologists and great literature to bring perspective to our clients. At Archive, we believe that therapy is one of the most meaningful investments you can make in yourself.

Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Eating issues and addiction, especially for queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC), often begin as a survival strategy. Your addiction and/or disordered eating may have been your first coping mechanism against racism, homophobia, classism, sexism, or other forms of trauma or abuse. Do you feel disconnected from your body or yourself? Do you feel incapable of facing life without the "help" of these behaviors, or have they helped you escape and/or become your safe place? We explore what's hidden beneath your addiction, eating issues, and/or eating issues. Using somatic practices and parts work, we safely dive deep into the issues that may have caused your eating behaviors and addictions to occur in the first place. We use tools like breathwork and tapping to regulate the body, while holding space for your lived experience to be felt and expressed. During the process of working through what may have created the dependence on substances, food, or lack of food, we learn how to map our nervous system's survival responses and patterns. What survival response do you most live in when faced with life stressors or past or present traumas? Your world might feel scary right now, but you don't have to bear it alone. It takes courage to reach out for support and declare, "I've had enough!" Despite how challenging it might feel right now, I believe you can grow, change, and evolve. Together, we will find practical and/or creative solutions to those persistent issues. I'm not just saying this because it sounds nice. I've lived it myself. I come to this work with professional and personal experience. I struggled with addiction and an eating issue during my 20s and early 30s. Point of Information: I'm 44 now. I've spent years in therapy addressing the traumas that led to my eating issue and addiction challenges. I know it seems impossible now, but there is freedom on the other side of these behaviors, and you don't have to go it alone. We heal in community. I believe people can move past deep attachment wounding and trauma. I believe this because I've seen it in myself, the folks I work with, colleagues, and friends.

I provide telehealth counseling services for adults, teens, children, and sometimes families in California. I work hard to break down the barriers people often feel towards therapy by using relatable language, humor, casual rapport, customized packages, telehealth sessions, parent coaching, and more. I make sure you feel safe and supported. By including humor and other non-traditional approaches in my work, I am a good fit for those looking for someone who is not very 'therapist' like but still has all the experience, therapeutic skills, and insight to help create positive change. I am often able to connect with kids, teens, and adults who have previously not enjoyed or benefited from counseling. I am primarily a relational therapist, meaning that I hold the relationship between you and me as the most important aspect of therapy. In the session, I offer a warm and inviting space to safely discuss struggles, fears, or future hopes. I truly believe there is nothing too severe, dark, weird, or hard to talk about and I am deeply committed to creating a non-judgmental space where all topics are open for exploration. So whether you are looking for some brief solution-focused help or some gentle inquiry, you get to decide how we work together. I have a real passion for Neuroscience, Eastern approaches, and educating others on all the ways we are wired and all the ways that we can ‘rewire’ ourselves with the help of mindfulness and self-compassion. I incorporate a lot of cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, emotionally focused therapy, and more. I believe sharing one's story is the first step toward creating meaningful and lasting change. In therapy, I respect you, and your story and endeavor to listen thoughtfully while supporting your experience. I see therapy as an opportunity to work with people to make sense of situations, help articulate feelings, learn new skills, develop new coping mechanisms, create healthier relationships, and improve general well-being. I am committed to the well-being of all my clients, often going above and beyond to address their needs or advocate for them. I truly care and I'm forever curious about people.

I am very approachable, informal, careful with people's feelings and work well with those who are new or hesitant to come to psychotherapy because they are unaccustomed to the "culture" of psychotherapy, fearful of being judged or not "doing it right" (i.e. ethnic minority, working class background, new immigrant, men whose wives are "making them go" or alternative lifestyle). I work well with people who might feel that their problems will be too much to disclose, to handle, be resolved, feeling vulnerable/fragile. I am very patient and kind but I will not let you off the hook if I think you can do it. I do a kind of therapy that helps people understand and resolve deep seated long standing problems that get in the way of feeling good about yourself and feeling satisfied with your close relationships. For many years, I have worked with "high conflict" families (of divorce) and when I see people in conflicted relationships, I work hard to understand everyone's point of view (and their pain) and strive for everyone to feel heard and for people to be able to be as comfortable as possible in situations that are very uncomfortable and may appear unresolvable. I do not shy away from strong emotional states (i.e. anger, terror, trauma) and am highly trained to assist patients in going inward as deeply as they want and need to go. I also have a way of making people laugh in the midst of all this pain, hopefully without feeling that I am making light of their pain. Patients often tell me that I am funny (and sometimes they are too) and that I have a heart.

As an empath, intuitive, or highly sensitive person, you experience this world in a deeper, more complex, and intuitive way. You feel the joys and pains of other beings as if they were your very own. You feel and absorb everything around you within your own body – other people’s feelings, the energy of nature, the quality of events going on in the world. This can bring experiences of tremendous joy and love, as well as overwhelm, sacrifice, and suffering. With so much pain in the world, it's hard to discover what you need, or believe you deserve it. As an empath, intuitive, and highly sensitive person - I understand. I designed my practice to support people just like you - to help you create a life joyfully centered in your own sacred needs, gifts, and ways of being. You deserve joy. I support Queer and Trans magic makers, empaths, intuitives, and highly sensitive people to move from suffering and sacrifice to a life centered in joy. Using a holistic blend of somatic, ecospiritual, and expressive arts therapy, we will work together to understand your unique gifts and ways of being, and support you in cultivating everything you need to create your joyful life. We have a lot of ways to work together, from guided journaling to listening to music together to body awareness. Exploring in this way allows us to create healing on every level. Your way of being is sacred, and you deserve all the care, love, and support you so freely give to others. If you are ready to step off the path of self-sacrifice, and explore the path of self-love, self-healing, and joyful embodiment - please reach out! Let's create your new path together.

Hey there--thanks for checking out my profile and taking a courageous step toward greater well being. I believe that therapeutic change comes from the inside out, helping you to identify, understand, and manage your emotional experience. If you often find yourself feeling out of place or struggling inside—even though other people think you have it all together—I can help. I work with individual adults who are familiar with psychotherapy and want deeper, root-level healing for symptoms related to anxiety and relational trauma. This can include concerns around relationships, life transitions, overthinking, people-pleasing, self-doubt, self-limiting beliefs and thought patterns, boundaries, and self-criticism. My approach blends mindfulness and somatic inquiry with relationalpsychodynamic and Internal Family Systems therapy. With me, you’ll connect the dots between your upbringing and the strategies you took on to cope with it, and you’ll develop new ways of easing the tensions that keep you stuck. I’ve been in the field for 15 years and have a breadth of advanced training in clinical approaches within private practice. I provide group supervision at The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, CA, and I’m a Certified Level 3 IFS Therapist. My style is both active and spacious, with my focus on supporting you in slowing down, tuning into yourself, and guiding you toward the healing wisdom that thrives within you. I welcome motivated, self-reflective clients of any identity to my practice, with a particular affinity with those identifying as empathic, highly sensitive, creative, Black, andor multiracial. I also welcome therapists seeking individual or group consultation in IFS. Contact me for a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation if you’re ready to live with more ease and self-confidence.

I’m trained in psychodynamic therapy, where one seeks the causes and origins of suffering and works through them, healing and letting them go. In session, I use empathy and gentle, kind curiosity to discover and understand the origins of maladaptive behaviors and suffering to create new, adaptive, and rewarding ways of living. This approach results in clients feeling more relaxed and present, and increases their ability to make decisions that are aligned with their values. My style is warm, active, and goal-oriented. When clients first start therapy, I establish a strong relationship and comfortable environment where they feel safe and understood. Many of my clients come in to address life struggles, transitions, relationships, trauma histories, anxiety, and depression. I have advanced training and experience in treating trauma and can help with a variety of issues. I’ve worked with patients struggling with day-to-day life, career issues, relationship issues, healing from childhood physical, sexual and emotional abuse, or neglect, battling inter-generational trauma, parenting without parents, and other issues. Please feel free to give me a call to see if this might be a good fit for you.

When I sit with a client, either an individual or a couple, my primary objective is to fully see and deeply understand them and their experience. Feeling like someone “gets” and accepts you is critical to developing self-worth. Yet many of us have never felt truly appreciated for our unique selves by our families or the others closest to us. That absence and the ache it causes is often underneath the issues that bring clients to therapy. In therapy, feeling seen and accepted is how the healing begins. My goal as a therapist is to build a collaborative relationship with my clients. Together we can peel back the protective layers and gently reveal the sources of the pain beneath. Maybe you’ve done a lot of work on yourself and developed a keen self-awareness, yet you still can’t find love for yourself or build the life you want. These are often the roots driving our habits and the self-defeating patterns we use to prevent ourselves from being hurt again. The fear of vulnerability and the behaviors we employ to keep us safe, may now be preventing us from receiving love from others and creating the types of relationships we desire. Our beliefs about ourselves often keep us rooted in shame, stuck in a world where we are unworthy of the things we want, including love for ourselves. Wouldn’t it be amazing to shed your negative self beliefs and develop new ways of interacting with the world that creates new opportunities for growth and relationships built on trust and acceptance? I can help you write a new narrative focused on the present and the future, not driven by the past. A life with joy and contentment.