Services Provided
I specialize in individual therapy for adults and couples. I also provide coaching for individuals located outside of California. I have significant expertise working with people navigating general anxiety, social anxiety, emotion dysregulation, interpersonal conflict, establishing boundaries, identity formation, trauma, grief, assertiveness training, Borderline Personality Disorder, and depressive disorders.
Working With Adults Clients
My approach to each adult client is different and tailored to their specific needs and preferred style of interaction, utilizing evidence-based practices to achieve progress in treatment. I tend to stray away from giving clients therapy-related worksheets, however from time to time I will offer you thoughts to consider in between sessions and possible mental exercises to address current goals in therapy. An example would be: “Recognize the next time you are feeling impatient and try to sit in the discomfort rather than escape it.”
I believe our thoughts and beliefs are byproducts of past experiences that shaped our worldview - however sometimes those beliefs no longer are serving a function in our present lives. Understanding what those beliefs are and how they are informing our perception of the present is the first step in changing our current experience. At the end of the day, investigating the past is only helpful if it is hindering your present. Therapy should not be indefinite but rather a catalyst to living a more effective life. You can’t be a prophet in your own land, let me help!
Working With couples
My approach to working with couples is similar to individual therapy - I am direct and radically authentic. Couples therapy is unavoidably draining and often people tend to seek it out only after resentment has built up in the relationship. My job is to tease out that resentment and understand why conflict was not resolved in the past and how it can be resolved in the future. I prefer a less structured approach to couples therapy and tend to move fast. You will walk away from each session with exercises to apply throughout the week, however my goal is not to change who you are to fit the mold of the other person, but rather find a way to integrate who you are into the relationship for the sake of connection with your partner.