We can all benefit from therapy and seeking therapy takes courage, bravery and the ability to be vulnerable. I offer a calm, safe, down-to-earth, and empathetic space. Together we'll explore who you are and where you've been so that you can gain insight into how to become who you want to be. With sufficient motivation, you really can change. I will support you as you abandon unwanted behaviors. Together we can work on achieving your therapy goals whether you are wanting to understand yourself and relationships better, are adjusting to a life transition, or have experienced a crisis and need support.

On the outside, it looks like you’re living the dream of success, but on the inside, you feel held back by your fears and anxieties about life and all of it's changes. Very few people know that internally, your mind is constantly racing and overthinking. Against all of your wise logic and the previous experiences that have gone well, your fear of worst-case scenarios, judgment, failure, and abandonment persists, and no amount of ‘mindset shift' seems to create long-lasting change or relief for you. Most of all, you feel frustrated and unable to enjoy the beautiful life that you’ve worked so hard to create. The art of relaxing feels so unfamiliar to your body. You're so tired of being tired and are now ready for lasting change. You've noticed how lonely it's been trying to manage life and heal all on your own. Great; that's where I come in. You can expect me to have your back and to be deeply committed to helping you be present in the life you’ve always wanted for yourself. Very few anxious high-achievers know that talk therapy cannot support the healing of their survival brain or the regulation of their nervous system. You need something different, and effective. As an EMDR Certified Therapist & Certified Integral & Enneagram Coach, I personally know what it takes to get past stuck places like your well-being depends on it. You can expect me to be warm, attentive, and direct. I offer online video and phone sessions. Just visit my website or text to schedule!

Hello and Welcome to my page! I am a highly trained licensed psychologist, certified in the following: sexology, yoga therapy, psychedelic integration (therapies and research), and executive and holistic coaching. I have a straightforward and friendly approach to working together to assist individuals and couples and groups to live a life and lives that generate satisfaction and manifests authenticity. I aim to help create a space that is high in curiosity and non-judgemental. Psychotherapeutic and coaching work is personal in nature and needs to be treated as such. The intake session (first meeting) includes a full evaluation of course of treatment, plan, program and recommendations.

I support people to connect with their innate capacities for satisfying relationships and fulfilling lives. Healing and growth occurs optimally in caring and inspiring relationships. I collaborate with each person, couple and family to establish such a relationship, first and foremost. From this secure relational base, symptoms, conflicts and issues can be gently explored with curiosity, compassion and a welcoming awareness. This dynamic inquiry process naturally invites emotional growth, creative solutions, genuine personal relating and life affirming actions.

I want to know what brings a smile to your face as you realize there is life to be lived. Our relationship is in the service of real, lasting change that will come from collaboration based on trust. There is a part in you, that know exactly why it came here and what is the task at hand. I like to ask my clients early in our work? "How will you know that you received what you came for?" We re-visit this question until one day we both know the work is done. While I will be keenly interested in how your past has brought you here, we will not dwell there. I am much more interested in what's present for you now and how the best in you can unfold. The change that will revitalize your life will not come from insight alone. We will engage in dialogue, storytelling, relaxation, imagery, dream exploration, and pay attention to body sensation, the seat of the soul. I am multifaceted by nature. A trained musician and composer, a highly regarded software designer, an experienced sailor, a resident and student of many international cultures, a life-long and committed spiritual practitioner, and a loving, happy father and husband. I am an associate of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of the Bay Area and a member of CAMFT.

I offer clear communication in a down-to-earth environment. My goal is to secure your strengths while identifying and reducing patterns that are holding you back. I've helped people address loneliness, grief, self-limiting beliefs, and a desire to get past the feeling of being stuck in their lives. Individuals, couples, and friendships have found fresh perspectives on relationships with themselves and one another. My orientation has grown out of somatic work and attachment theory. I am trained in Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS) and Hakomi, in addition to psychodynamic therapy and CBT. If your best efforts to address your situation aren't working for you, let's look at some new approaches. Call for a free 15-30 minute phone consultation. We'll talk about your concern, and discuss how working together can point you in a direction best suited for you. I'm happy to answer your questions about my style of work, what sets me apart from other psychotherapists, or about therapy in general.

My clinical approach is multi-disciplinary and rooted in psychodynamic theory, attachment theory, and humanistic psychology. I also have a background and training in integrative health and wellness, which can contribute to a more in-depth perspective on treatment. My style is genuine, collaborative, interpersonal, direct, and non-judgemental, and I encourage clients to be true to themselves and transparent. Although treatment is based on an individual's needs and goals, primary objectives in treatment are to help clients (re)connect to their confidence and curiosity and to reinforce their capacity and resiliency. Couples therapy can be some of the hardest yet most profound work ones does. I understand and revere the gravity, complexity, and reward of the process. Often, the primary focus of couples therapy is on “fixing the problem,” and when the underlying causes are not addressed, couples can become entrenched in the same cycle, the same pattern indefinitely. The more one understands a partner’s triggers and the history behind them, the more opportunity there is for vulnerability and empathy, followed by deeper connection.

With over 30 years of experience as a Marriage and Family Therapist, she is a licensed professional in California and Massachusetts. Her extensive expertise in relationship dynamics, combined with her compassionate approach, has helped countless individuals and families find peace and resolution in their personal lives. She specializes in family therapy & mediation, couples therapy & mediation, and co-parenting therapy & mediation, including: - Healing from trauma and past relationship issues - Mending and rebuilding relationships through mediation - Managing co-parenting challenges with structured mediation sessions - Premarital counseling to align values and future goals - Child therapy to help kids adjust to divorce - Support for individuals and couples navigating divorce through mediation She offers online support groups, expert-led sessions, and personal coaching to provide practical strategies and empowering support tailored to your needs. Mediation sessions are designed to facilitate constructive communication and fair agreements, helping families navigate transitions smoothly.

Welcome to your opportunity to make a real change in your life! I am here to help support and heal who you are now, while stimulating your growth toward who you are capable of being. Whether you know it or not, you arrive with all the resources you need to heal and thrive deep within you. It's my job to help you access those resources. While working through your challenges, we find and activate your strengths. We heal your hurt places, build your resilience, and expand your capacity. I honor your individuality and tailor my approach to meet you where you are now, and help you get to where you need to go. I work with people who are ready to go beyond willpower-based change; who are ready to do what it takes to genuinely heal and evolve. I am here to co-create a relationship with you that will activate your innate ability to transform and evolve. It is through this kind of deep, foundational work that we are able to help you heal and evolve, and ultimately... relax! Willpower-based change works only as long as you can hold it. When stressors arise in life, most of us fall back into our most familiar patterns in order to try to survive the storm. This is not failure, it is simple, human neurobiology. My supportive, relational approach activates your brain's continuing ability to change (neuroplasticity) so that you can finally relax, knowing that the change you have realized will hold, even when life "hits the fan." While my education, training, and professional experiences are indispensable, what most qualifies me to guide from "the chair" has been forged from my experience healing on "the couch." I offer you the resources I have gained through my own extensive personal work. This means I will never presume to walk you through territory I have not traversed myself. I've developed a powerful compass, which has allowed me the honor of guiding many others through their processes of healing and evolution. What sets me apart from other therapists? First, I am very genuine, connective, active, and personable with my clients. I do not check my sense of humor at the door. Being authentic helps my clients to relax and be more fully themselves, which allows our work to be powerful and effective. Working with me leads to feeling solidly like you have someone who knows you, understands you, connects with you, and is dedicated to helping you create the experience you want to have in life. I have extensive education, experience, and training, as well as an unusually wide breadth of life experience, and am therefore able to have an in-depth understanding of many experiences you might think you could never share or relate with anyone about. Most importantly, I remain actively engaged in my own personal work in order to bring a level of deep, ongoing personal experience you won't find with all therapists. I cannot emphasize enough how vital this is to the effectiveness of a psychotherapist... we learn the most and become better able to help others heal through our own work and healing. Thus, the maxim, "healer, heal thyself."

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.

Over the past 10 years, I have used my clinical training to help individuals, couples, and families untangle the scary, messy, and upsetting parts of their lives. I enjoy empowering individuals to heal from a trauma-informed lens and learn healthy strategies for engaging in relationships with self and others. As an EMDR trained clinician I utilize this approach to assist clients in processing and heal emotional distress associated with traumatic experiences. EMDR utilizes the engagement in bilateral stimulation and particular focus on specific experiences which has been known to engage the brain's healing mechanisms. EMDR has been found to be helpful for individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and developmental traumas. I am currently accepting telehealth-only clients for individuals who reside in the states of California, the District of Columbia, and Maryland. You are welcome to email or call me to schedule your free 15-minute consultation to discuss current needs and explore if therapy with my practice is a good fit.

To start with, somatic psychotherapy can look like traditional talk therapy. We sit in a comfortable room, and together unfold your story and agree upon what to pay attention to first. The first thing that is different are some of the questions of inquiry, which ask about internal states related to your thoughts. In my work with clients we might incorporate gestures, postures, movements, and bodywork, as appropriate. Typically there is a parallel somatic educational process to the unfolding of your experience. The body is brought into the psychotherapeutic process because thinking is not only an abstract function, it is a physical act. The brain is physically continuous with the rest of the body and is influenced by the constant stream of information received through your senses. And so we focus on the regulation of energy in relation to what matters most to you. This often involves your experiences of some or all of the following: grounded-ness, meaning and purpose, connectedness, will and power, communication and expression, and the processing of information.