I am a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with over 12 years of professional experience coming alongside clients on their journey towards change and wholeness. I believe that you are the expert of your story and that you have many strengths that will assist you in overcoming things that challenge you. It takes courage to seek out a more fulfilling and satisfying life.
On a professional level, my experience encompasses working with adults and college-age young adults with stress, relational conflict, anxiety, trauma, and grief/loss. I pay attention to how client's past experiences may present themselves in the client's present realities and assist clients gain greater awareness of these dynamics. I also incorporate a culturally competent approach to therapy that can include a client’s faith tradition or spirituality, ethnic and cultural background, disability identity, and/or sexual and gender identity.
I am here to support and empower you through your journey.
Additional areas of focus: Abandonment, Aging and geriatric issues, Attachment issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Blended family issues, Body image, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Communication problems, Divorce and separation, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Hearing impaired, Immigration issues, Intellectual disability, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Multicultural concerns, Prejudice and discrimination, Self-love, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Gottman Method, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
CA LMFT 135033