Services
Deep within each of us lies a wise guide shaped by our experiences, values, and intuition. Trusting this inner voice allows us to face life’s challenges with clarity and resilience.
Who I Work With
I provide online therapy for teens, young adults, adults, and older adults, welcoming clients from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, beliefs, life experiences, and orientations.
Services Offered
Individual Therapy: Dedicated, one-on-one space tailored to your unique personal growth and healing.
Couples Therapy: Collaborative sessions designed to safely reshape communication and rebuild emotional security.
Family Therapy: Systemic support focused on exploring generational patterns and improving connection.
How I Can Help
People seek therapy for many different reasons—from specific emotional struggles to major life transitions. Whatever brings you here, our work together is focused on helping you find a manageable path forward that respects your unique history and goals. Below is a breakdown of how I can help, including my primary areas of focus and my general practice areas.
My Primary Areas of Focus
Trauma & Healing the Past
PTSD & Chronic Trauma Symptoms: Intrusive thoughts, nightmares, insomnia, and constant hyper-vigilance.
Childhood Trauma & Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Early adversity, childhood abuse, and emotional neglect.
Relational & Attachment Trauma: Long-standing emotional wounds from difficult family dynamics or broken trust in close relationships.
Cumulative Stress: Psychological and emotional wear-and-tear of prolonged, compounding life stressors.
Nervous System Dysregulation: A body stuck in chronic survival modes like fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
How I Can Help: We will look at how past trauma lives in your body today. By exploring early relational history, deep-seated emotional patterns, and body-centered awareness, we gently work with your internal parts to safely release stored pain. Together, we will build practical mindfulness tools to ground you in the present and rebuild lasting internal security.
My General Practice Areas
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Common Concerns:
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Depression
Chronic emptiness
Low motivation
Intense anger
Emotion regulation
Perfectionism
How I Can Help: We look beyond surface behavior to explore the deep roots of empty moods, panic, and inner criticism. Our work balances present-moment somatic tracking of your emotions with practical coping strategies to help you regulate intense distress, manage triggers, and find lasting stability.
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Common Concerns:
Repairing relationships
Infidelity
Loneliness
Boundary issues
Caregiver burnout
Chronic caregiver stress
Compassion fatigue from caring for loved ones
How I Can Help: Our therapeutic relationship serves as a live space to explore attachment styles and relational habits. We identify the internal parts that struggle to say no, build clear communication strategies to express your needs, and learn to track physical signs of caregiver exhaustion so you can protect your energy.
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Common Concerns:
Starting college
Transitioning to adulthood
Career changes
Divorce/Separation
Retirement
Role changes
Chronic illness
Changes in physical ability
Loss of normalcy
Grief & loss
Culture shock
Existential questions
How I Can Help: Major life and health shifts split our identity into different parts—who we were versus who we are now. We use mindfulness and present-focused awareness to grieve losses, process cultural or bodily shifts, and use concrete grounding tools to tolerate reality while reconnecting with your core values.
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Common Concerns:
Persistent communication breakdowns
Chronic conflict
Healing from infidelity or broken trust
Navigating major family transitions
Feelings of emotional distance
How I Can Help: I treat the relationship itself as the client, using our sessions to unearth the underlying habits that keep you stuck in repetitive loops.
For couples work, I use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and a Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT). These attachment-based frameworks map the automatic responses carried from infancy into adult bonds, allowing us to reshape communication and rebuild emotional security.
For family work, I use a family systems approach to view the family as an interconnected emotional unit rather than isolated individuals. Together, we map out dynamics and shift away from blame toward collaborative support.
Support Through Life-Altering Events
Sometimes, a devastating event completely upends your life, and you need intensive support just to steady yourself. I have direct experience working with people who have lived through these exact situations. In our sessions, we will focus on helping you process and survive the impact of such events as:
Domestic abuse or intimate partner violence
Sexual assault or rape
A loved one’s terminal illness, incarceration, or sudden or violent death
Pregnancy termination or acute reproductive grief
When you are in the middle of a major upheaval, I can often increase our session frequency or schedule extra time to help you process the shock and regain your footing.
Because I am a sole practitioner, I cannot provide 24/7 emergency availability or on-call crisis response. My care is meant to complement immediate emergency services, not replace them. If you need urgent assistance, you can find a list of crisis lines here.
Where to Find Me
While I split my time between the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Cruz, my practice is entirely virtual.
Because all sessions are conducted via secure, confidential video or phone conferencing, I can support clients living anywhere in the state of California. You can access dedicated, professional care from the comfort and privacy of your own space.