Offerings
Individual Therapy
Discover a path toward personal growth and healing. My approach is designed to guide adults and teens through life's challenges, help you build a stronger sense of self, while highlighting your inherent strengths.
Couples Therapy
Strengthen your relationship and improve communication with your partner. I’ll promote a brave space for couples to explore their emotions, resolve conflicts, and create a more fulfilling partnership.
Online Therapy
I offer online therapy sessions for clients residing in California via a HIPAA compliant video platform. Online therapy offers the convenience of saving time, eliminating the need for commuting.
My Approach
Our past has a significant impact on how we experience our present moment. We will explore early childhood experiences as well as current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In our sessions, I will approach with empathy, seeking to understand your innermost thoughts and feelings. I value bringing my authentic self into sessions and offer a space that is non-judgmental and accepting.
I blend cognitive and behavioral strategies with mindfulness and acceptance techniques. This includes enhancing psychological flexibility, fostering openness and adaptibility, practicing cognitive diffusion to detach from unhelpful thoughts, and discovering personal values. Additionally, I’ll help you challenge your negative thinking patterns to guide you toward more rational thought processes.
Complementing talk therapy, I integrate somatic tools. Our bodies hold immense wisdom when we listen closely. Together, we may engage in mindfulness exercises, embodied presence practices, breathwork, body awareness, resourcing, and grounding exercises—all aimed at creating awareness and safety within your body. If you are interested in books or podcasts related to mental health, click here.
"There is no greater source of joy and meaning in our lives than our relationships with others.” - Esther Perel
I use an emotionally-focused approach when working with couples. Together, we will identify negative interaction patterns in your relationship. My aim is to foster emotional awareness, faciliate open communication, and guide the restructuring of your relationship dynamics to cultivate a more secure and fulfilling bond. Rooted in attachment theory, emotionally-focused therapy emphasizes the significance of secure emotional connections in promoting mental health and well-being.
In addition to my primary approach, I also teach practical conflict management strategies that lead to resolving disagreements and fostering deeper understanding between partners. Using the Gottman Method, I highlight specific behaviors, known as “The Four Horsemen” (criticsm, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling), that can predict relationship distress. I will help to guide couples in replacing these negative patterns with healthier communication methods.
At times, we may all experience dysregulation that lead to a fight, flight, or freeze response. Managing emotions during conflict might seem overwhelming, yet there are ways to expand our window of tolerance and return to a regulated state. When dysregulated, our prefrontal cortex, responsible for rational thinking, goes offline, making it challenging to control emotions in the moment. During our sessions, we’ll practice techniques to shift our nervous system from a sympathetic (fight or flight) to a parasympathetic state (rest and digest). This shift will empower more effective communication, leading to feeling respected, heard, and supported by your partner.