Looking for a therapist who is warm, honest and real? I never check my humor at the door. I want to help you build strong relationships and feel confident and joyful. Isn't that what life's about? You deserve to feel like your best self. I believe humans have incredible strength, resilience and creativity. We just lose track of it at times. This is when therapy can be a lifesaver. With over a decade of experience, I combine Eastern philosophy with cutting edge techniques. I specialize in assisting individuals and couples during challenging transitions. It's incredibly painful to feel scared and alone. You need tools to help you thrive. I am here to support you in creating change, and living with passion. Your program is tailor-made, assisting you in developing better understanding of self, changing negative frameworks, and moving towards a life that fills you with joy. Contact me for a complimentary 15 minute phone session or schedule an appointment to meet for a session. It is my belief that this work can be a life-changing step towards your transformation and personal growth.

I am a clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of clinical experience working with adults on issues of vital importance in their daily lives. I am deeply committed to helping people create the most fulfilling lives possible, as they move through and beyond challenges such as anxiety, depression, personal effectiveness, stress and worklife balance, grief reactions, relationships and self-esteem issues. When "life" has thrown you off our path, I work with you to restore your natural capacity for self esteem and healing, and provide unwavering emotional support as you create an enriching life with healthier relationships.

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.

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 a compassionate, non-judgmental, honest, and down-to-earth therapist who has more than 20 years of experience in the mental health field. I have worked with families, couples, and individuals throughout my career, and I am genuinely interested in helping you with your concerns. I provide a secure, comfortable setting where you may explore your issues, express yourself freely, and reach your therapeutic goals. I offer effective treatment for a wide range of adverse issues such as anxiety, depression, postpartum depression, anger issues, relational challenges, and parenting issues. I am also very comfortable working with people from different age groups and ethnicities. A key component of successful therapy is finding a therapist who is a good match for you. I offer a FREE 15 minute telephone consultation. This will allow us to discuss your concerns, and find out how well we work together.

Whatever has brought you here, I've no doubt it's an opportunity to create something better. I can help you release old, painful patterns that go nowhere, so you can find the freedom to move forward with what matters most to you. You will find me to be an enthusiastic catalyst for you to be a game changer in your own life! You can rely on my 35 plus years of experience and my genuine, playful, compassionate and generous presence. You will get gentle and clear, inspiring feedback. Your concerns will be heard as you experience me actively engaged with what is most in your mind and heart. Whatever you bring, however broken you might feel, I see you as whole, no matter what you are dealing with. Our collaboration will invite new, enlivening choices for you. We'll work as collaborators for your best evolution.

I work with individuals across the life span using a relational, intersubjective and non-judgmental approach. Working collaboratively, I help clients to grow beyond dysfunctional relational patterns, to recognize behaviors that are no longer working and to explore new options for living. As relational trust deepens in a safe therapeutic environment, your own healing process will begin, and creative energy will be released. My approach, while informed by attachment and psychodynamic theories, is fundamentally client centered and respects your own innate growth process. I also utilize expressive arts and sand tray when appropriate to facilitate your process. My hope is to empower you to feel more in control of your own life and to make positive choices.

At Sierra Sunrise Wellness Group, we approach each person as a unique human being with their own set of circumstances, whatever those might be, and we hope to collaborate with you to determine our best course forward. We greatly admire the courage that it takes to reach out and ask for help. We are grateful to be able to care for and sit with those who might be in one of the darkest or most confusing moments of their life. We see creative opportunities to make beneficial changes in the world around us that will carry on for generations to come, long after we have gone. We like to work towards integration of the mind, body, and soul in order for people to become more whole and able to FEEL happiness and joy emanating through their very finger tips. We love working with the whole age range, and many and varied issues such as trauma, depression, anxiety, grief, life transitions, and suicidal ideation. Sierra Sunrise Wellness Group is a collection of wellness providers of many varieties who aim to support our community to learn how to feel better, inside and out. We have many approaches including existentialism, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Brainspotting, play therapy, yogameditation classes, wellness workshops, support groups, and more. There is also a fully-certified therapy dog, Rollo, on staff and he is a wonderful comfort!

My clients report they got into therapy because they wanted relief from suffering. They wanted to stop their minds from racing all the time. They say the had trouble sleeping, concentrating, functioning or just being present in life. They say they felt guilty for not being able to stop overthinking. They say they felt like they were just existing but not really living, let alone thriving. If this sounds familiar to you, I can help! A lot of these symptoms are anxiety or depression based and can be linked to trauma. My treatment could be a good fit for you because I specialize in the treatment of anxiety, depression and trauma. You don’t have to suffer in silence anymore. There are ways to get relief & healing that can profoundly change your life. Please know that, with some work, thriving in life is a very real possibility. About me: I am a collaborative strength-based therapist, meaning we will work as a team to elicit your strengths so you can use them to your advantage. I use attachment-based compassion focused interpersonal therapy. I also specialize in a somatic (mind and body) trauma treatment model where you will have an opportunity to reparent your wounded inner child and subsequently heal your relationship with yourself. My style is caring, empathetic and supportive. My clients describe me as down-to-Earth , knowledgeable, engaging, with a good sense of humor they find therapeutic. I’d love to see if my services are a good match for you, so contact me so we can book a free consultation to discuss the possibility of working together.

I have been working as a therapist for over 30 years. Much of my work has been with couples, families, and groups, but I have more recently begun seeing individuals as well. I have been influenced by gestalt therapy, family systems, and relational psychoanalysis. To me, what is most healing for people is to find a "relational home", wherein they can feel safe to explore the most vulnerable aspects of themselves in a trusting, non-judgmental environment. This is true for couples and families, as well as for individuals. I am a growth-oriented therapist who is "difference-friendly", and I love to work with people who are on a path of personal and or spiritual growth.

Welcome, I am a licensed psychotherapist with professional and clinical experience working with individuals, families, couples, and groups from various types of backgrounds and facing different challenges, each unique as the individual(s) in front of me. I specialize in deep psychological work, looking for the root causes, using the presenting symptoms as guides to what is originating and causing your ailment. We will tend to the immediate distress while developing tools to manage future distress and keeping it within a tolerable level of discomfort. I believe we are whole beings who have become fragmented by life occurrences and are finding our way back to that wholeness. I am here to assist you in your process. Whether you are looking for your next step, wanting to step into your full potential, heal past personal/generational wounds, better your relationship with yourself and with others, find peace in your day-to-day life, or having deep questions about who you are and what you like, I offer you my training, presence, and deep compassion in support of your growth, development, and transformation.

You: look great on paper, but inside it's a struggle and you're ashamed to admit it - especially when others have it worse. You're hardworking, passionate, strong, with a lot to give. But you're having trouble focusing and getting motivated. You're not connecting with your work the way you want toused to, and your co-working relationships are "fine," but not great. It feels like something's missing. You don't know what it is or where to find it. Under the surface, you feel scared, sad, lonely, insecure, anxious, depressed and may be losing hope. I help people build motivation & self-esteem, connect more deeply in relationships, and find satisfaction in work. I'm uniquely qualified to provide you with the support you need and deserve, while you pursue fulfillment and self-actualization. Bright as you are, I know how dark it can get. I know you show the world you're fine, even while hurting inside. I promise, you can heal and thrive. We'll start by building a foundation of trust, though you can expect to feel fairly comfortable with me right away. You'll get the sense you can say almost anything without me judging you - and you're right. We'll begin with the end in mind, and I'll probably ask, "How will we know when we're done?" Our work together will be collaborative, insightful and designed to suit your needs.