"I provide warm, accepting, and engaged psychotherapy. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Berkeley, I work with individuals, teens, young adults, couples, and families who are seeking to improve the quality of their relationships and lives. Whether you are working to ease the symptoms of depression or anxiety, healing from grief and loss issues, resolving trauma, or seeking deeper a relationship with yourself and others, I can help you move forward."

"Through co-creating a supportive environment that offers you opportunities for self reflection and gentle challenge, I will work with you to recognize the ways that painful and/or traumatic experiences have shaped your sense of value and impact your ways of relating to yourself and others. I support and stand alongside all who are survivors of emotional, sexual and/or physical violence and strive to create space for increased self love and resilience. I look forward to meeting you and discovering how we can address patterns that no longer serve you as we build awareness and skills to support you in gaining the life you want to live."

"Every day I meet with individuals and couples who are in the process of overcoming worry, depression, conflict and dissatisfaction to find greater joy, fulfillment and meaning in their lives. Therapy works. If and when you decide to take that first step, I think you will find me to be an insightful, responsive and non-judgmental individual with an extensive therapy "tool kit." My approach is interactive and personal. Together, we will engage in a process of exploration to clarify your concerns, access deeper layers of understanding, and find more effective answers to new or recurring life issues."

"Developing a trusting relationship is the most important element in successful psychotherapy. We will create a unique relationship that encourages your expression of inner feelings and learning to know what is true for you. I appreciate depth work, and although weekly sessions are beneficial, up to three sessions per week deepens the process. I frequently work with the following issues: depression, anxiety, relationship problems, disabilities and chronic illness, self-esteem and LGBTQ issues."

"Telehealth/videochat counseling available for residents of Massachusetts and California, I am located in California. Reactions to life changes and negative self talk can leave us feeling disempowered. Finding a therapist that will work well for you is the first step towards discovering skills to improve your overall quality of life. Through a supportive, holistic approach I empower individuals with the ability to decrease the impact of anxiety or depression. I am compassionate, straight-forward, and encourage collaboration."

"With mindfulness and compassion, I help my clients transform their limiting beliefs, access their strengths and move toward a greater sense of wholeness and ease. Couples describe my work as insight-oriented, relational, and free from blame or guilt. Colleagues and clients have called my style authentic, direct, and compassionate. I always try to provide warmth and a quick sense of humor."

"All of us grapple at times with thoughts and feelings that are too much to bear alone and that generate suffering in body and mind. Creating an emotionally safe yet challenging therapeutic space, one that respects your timing, lies at the heart of my approach. I offer both short term treatment and long term intensive treatment for couples and individuals, depending on your needs and circumstances. Many clients find that their symptoms diminish, their suffering decreases, and their development proceeds as a result of talking with someone who listens deeply and is emotionally available."

"My specialties include working with adolescents, transitional-age youth and adults. I am particularly interested in working with those adjusting to major life transitions such as leaving home, attending college, building careers, beginning or ending relationships, parenthood, infertility, pregnancy loss, empty-nest and retirement."

"Do you feel isolated and out of place? And even wonder if maybe there's something fundamentally wrong with you? Do you feel anxious in social settings? And end up feeling bad about yourself afterwards? I can show you a way out of this. Attachment-based therapy can create inner shifts that result in a profoundly transformed experience of living, so you can feel more at ease, love who you are, and feel deeply connected to those around you."

"I am interested in knowing who you are, the parts of you that you like and know a lot about as well as the parts of you who you keep hidden and may know less about. I am interested in all of the experiences that have shaped and continue to shape you, including your many socio-cultural identities that surround and intersect with all of your life experiences. I am interested in thinking and feeling together with you in order to find new ways of being that lead to more ease and satisfaction in your relationships with yourself and others."

"All life is a relationship. From our very first moments and onward, what happens in relationship teaches us about how to be in the world. We continually form certain core beliefs, ways of thinking, patterns of tension, and ways of moving our body that can be both healthy and limiting. Trauma, abuse, neglect, and other wounding contribute to how we form our relationship with the world and with ourselves. All of our past experiences have an impact on our present experience. Our day to day life can then be full of a sense of meaninglessness, emotional and physical pain, chronic anxiety, mistrust, or general unease."

"Are you grappling with self-doubt, irritation and anxiety at work and in relationships? You know what’s going on intellectually, but the change you seek is not happening on your own. You may already have a supportive community and exercise regularly, but it’s been a struggle lately to keep it together. Maybe you’ve been to therapy before and know it’s time to return before it gets worse. And this time, you’d like a therapist who gets the pain of being different and experiencing microaggressions, and is skilled in working with social and cultural differences. "

"I work to build a warm, empathic relationship with my clients to create an environment where we can think together about the issues that bring you to therapy and how best to resolve them. I am informed by psychodynamic theory and utilize this rich tradition to explore unconscious defenses, maladaptive patterns, and underlying schemas that can cause a person to repeat problematic behaviors despite their best efforts to change. I also draw from Cognitive Behavioral and Mindfullness practices to support clients with acquiring the tools they need to make those changes."

"Sometimes amazing things can grow under pressure. Living with stigma - related to a mind that works differently, a body that's unruly or "too much," or a sexuality that doesn't fit behind a white picket fence - asks us to be creative and fierce. The wisdom that can grow here is astounding. But the burden of stigma is heavy, and sometimes it twists and catches us in painful positions. Whether you're feeling exhausted, sick of yourself, or just don't know quite how to relate to other people, therapy with me can help."

"I am a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in psychological testing with children and adolescents. I have been practicing in this area for over a decade and have trained with experts in child assessment. My evaluations assess the presence of attention challenges, learning struggles, and emotional difficulties. I conduct thorough, comprehensive assessments informed by the Therapeutic/Collaborative Assessment model. In this model, parents and children are team members in the process and we work together to answer the referral questions. At the completion of the process, adolescents receive a feedback letter explaining the testing findings in accessible language and children receive an individualized picture book."

"My intention is to create a safe, compassionate space where I will listen, guide and support you to experience yourself more fully and to awaken more aliveness, creativity, and meaning in your life. Through awareness of body and mind states and habitual patterns of thinking and relating, we will work together to transform limiting beliefs that keep you from a more fulfilled experience of life. We will lay the groundwork to release the pain of old stories, and to create internal resources to allow you to experience an embodied life with more joy, aliveness and meaning."

"Do you find yourself repeating the same self-destructive behavior over and over? Do you find it difficult to find compassion for yourself or others? Do you find that instead of comforting yourself, you judge yourself for the way that you're feeling? Therapy can help you understand the unconscious dynamics at play and pull you out of your repetitive patterns. Finding a therapist who feels like the "right fit" is one of the most important aspects of a successful therapy. I provide a safe, confidential, non-judgmental space that welcomes all aspects of you and your experience."

"Are you ready to find new ways of relating to yourself and others? Therapy can help you understand old patterns of fear and pain that stand in the way of your living a more enlivened life. I am a warm and caring therapist who will work in a collaborative way to help you find new ways of thinking about - and connecting with - yourself and others. I provide a comfortable, inviting, non-judgmental space where you can enjoy the satisfactions of self-discovery while also exploring new ways of interacting with others."

"Working with individual adults, couples and in groups, I am an experienced therapist supporting men and women who want to heal and grow. Stress and anxiety often stem from relationship and workplace concerns. My couples counseling focuses on communication, a key to healthy relationships. To help heal childhood trauma, I have varied perspectives, including EMDR and a body/mind approach. I also specialize in working with adults with addictions, with family members dealing with addicted loved ones, with codependency and ACA issues, and with mid-life and retirement changes. My longterm groups for men and women address deep relationship issues; free interview; ask for flyer."

"Does it feel like you are repeating the same arguments, and unsure how to make progress? Or are you considering a life transition such as engagement or starting a family, and unsure of when your relationship will feel ready? We are 4 licensed therapists and specialize in couples who want help sorting through their topics with a focused approach. We practice research-based therapy on the science of good relationships. "