Empathic, person-centered clinical therapist grounded in a positive, strengths-based approach. I work with early adolescents, teenagers, adults, and individuals 50 plus. Scope of practice includes individual therapy, couples counseling, relationship therapy, and family counseling.
I specialize in trauma, anxiety, panic, addiction, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar, PTSD, and other unwelcome, unexpected life changes.
My therapeutic philosophy is rooted in cultural competence, informed by ethnic and racial identification, sexual understanding, and religion or spiritual traditions, to build coping skills and tools to process painful emotions, and develop acceptance of life’s realities.
Therapy works best with genuine connection and trust. I will meet you where you are, listen without judgment, and walk with you toward meaningful change, to ‘live your best life.’
Additional areas of focus: Abandonment, Aging and geriatric issues, Antisocial personality, Attachment issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Avoidant personality, Body image, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dependent personality, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Guilt and shame, HIV / AIDS, Hoarding, Immigration issues, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Intellectual disability, Isolation / loneliness, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Mood disorders, Narcissism, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Paranoia, Personality disorders, Phobias, Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships, Post-traumatic stress, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Self-harm, Self-love, Sexuality, Social anxiety and phobia, Traumatic brain injury, Women's issues, Young adult issues
CA LPCC 23311