WELCOME
I provide psychotherapy services to adults and couples, specializing in issues of depression, anxiety, and relationship. Therapy can help you to gain insight, shift habits or patterns that are no longer serving you, and perhaps most importantly, therapy can be a dedicated place and time to focus on you and what you need. I believe that we all have the capacity to continue to heal and grow throughout our lives and to achieve our creative potentials. I hope that our work together can help you to move toward whatever unique creation that is for you. I utilize a variety of modalities including EMDR and somatic techniques, and we can work together to figure out what style is the best fit for you. I offer sessions at my office on Piedmont Ave in Oakland as well virtual/video sessions.
EMDR and Individual Therapy
Many of us struggle with issues of anxiety, feeling stuck, a lack of connection, or a sense of overwhelm. Therapy can help. It is a way to better understand ourselves, what we do that supports our happiness, and what we might do or believe that perhaps served us in the past, but no longer does. It can help you to gain insight, self-compassion, and tools to help you feel a greater sense of peace, agency, and freedom in your life. Among other modalities, I offer EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a structured and highly effective form of therapy that is used to treat trauma and adverse experiences that continue to affect us.
Many of us struggle with issues of anxiety, feeling stuck, a lack of connection, or a sense of overwhelm. Therapy can help. It is a way to better understand ourselves, what we do that supports our happiness, and what we might do or believe that perhaps served us in the past, but no longer does. It can help you to gain insight, self-compassion, and tools to help you feel a greater sense of peace, agency, and freedom in your life. Among other modalities, I offer EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a structured and highly effective form of therapy that is used to treat trauma and adverse experiences that continue to affect us.
Couples Therapy
Relationships can be incredibly fulfilling. They can also be very hard. We often fall in love with people who have different strengths and growing edges than we do. It is a natural way to learn from and support our partner(s) and enrich our experiences. However, this can also be a source of conflict, difficulty understanding one another, and varied communication styles and needs. In longer term relationships especially, a big challenge can be falling into entrenched roles or patterns that can begin to occur almost automatically. In our work, I will help you to identify these roles and patterns, improve communication, as well as gain tools and insight around how to slow them down, and get "underneath" your most common arguments and stuck points. LGBTQI affirmative.
Relationships can be incredibly fulfilling. They can also be very hard. We often fall in love with people who have different strengths and growing edges than we do. It is a natural way to learn from and support our partner(s) and enrich our experiences. However, this can also be a source of conflict, difficulty understanding one another, and varied communication styles and needs. In longer term relationships especially, a big challenge can be falling into entrenched roles or patterns that can begin to occur almost automatically. In our work, I will help you to identify these roles and patterns, improve communication, as well as gain tools and insight around how to slow them down, and get "underneath" your most common arguments and stuck points. LGBTQI affirmative.
About Me
I received my Masters in Counseling from SF State in 2013, and have been practicing psychotherapy ever since. I have extensive experience in working with issues of anxiety, depression, relationship, parenting, communication challenges, and self-esteem. I believe that we all have our unique creative potentials and a natural desire to move toward these. I can help you to get out of your own way, and meet a deeper sense of self and overall life satisfaction. I incorporate many modalities into my work, including somatic awareness, mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and motivational interviewing.
I received my Masters in Counseling from SF State in 2013, and have been practicing psychotherapy ever since. I have extensive experience in working with issues of anxiety, depression, relationship, parenting, communication challenges, and self-esteem. I believe that we all have our unique creative potentials and a natural desire to move toward these. I can help you to get out of your own way, and meet a deeper sense of self and overall life satisfaction. I incorporate many modalities into my work, including somatic awareness, mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and motivational interviewing.