How will we work together?

My role as a psychotherapist is to help clients acknowledge and harness their innate strengths and to attain and sustain the well-being they are searching for. What holds us back? What keeps us returning to habitual patterns that limit us? How can we heal from past experiences or learn to cope with current life challenges? While working together, we will examine your life from many vantage points, with compassion and curiosity. By expanding how you view yourself, how you relate to others, and how you are able to respond to difficult circumstances, new possibilities will emerge.

How can I help? 

My areas of expertise include:

• Cultivating self-compassion to combat shame, self-criticism and threats to self-worth
• Advocating for unique issues LGBTQIA individuals face
• Understanding and managing depression and anxiety
• Examining the causes and harmful cycles of addiction and codependency
• Exploring intimacy concerns (for both individuals and couples)
• Supporting clients coping with grief and loss
• Building resilience while navigating life transitions
• Embracing cross-cultural differences and attachment patterns in couples
• Working through childhood trauma​

I actively cultivate an atmosphere that welcomes and celebrates diversity of all kinds (race, sexual orientation, gender, class, age, ability, religion, spirituality). I am passionate about gently questioning unspoken norms and expectations, whether learned from family or society, that can limit our ability to connect with our most authentic selves. I empower clients to take supported risks, guiding the therapy with empathy, honesty, humor, and a belief in the transformative power of relationships.

I work with both couples and individuals in a dynamic, therapeutic process. 
 

Do you want to embark on this healing journey together? Reach out: 415-255-3305