Therapists in 95630

This isn't what you signed up for...It's just not working. You've been strong. You've been able to keep it together for a long time. But now you feel overwhelmed. You don't have to go through this alone. Let me help you get through this tough time...stuck place...lousy situation. Let me help you rediscover your joy. I use compassion, encouragement and humor along with direction in therapy. I have a straight forward approach and I am good at helping people find the right balance of family, career and self.

My philosophy is to encourage individuals and couples to locate and strengthen their mindset, and relationship to develop healthy understanding of your needs and how to begin to meet those needs. My approach is utilizing traditional talk therapy, with mindfulness, and meeting you were you are now. Assisting you in creating the goals of your desires for your life.

Hello and welcome! I am so glad you are here. My goal as your therapist is to support you in your journey to becoming the best you possible by providing a safe, non-judgmental space where you can navigate life’s challenges and find hope. My approach is collaborative and compassionate with a focus on personal strengths and recognition of individual’s unique experiences. I hope that together we can work on developing a deeper personal understanding, address difficulties, and learn ways to manage problems in order to find healing, hope, and comfort in daily life.

My primary purpose is to help my clients the way I have been helped on my own healing journey. I feel a passionate calling to work with clients whose issues mirror the struggles and challenges that I, too, have overcome. The empathy, compassion, and unconditional positive regard that I feel toward my clients allows us to build a foundation of rapport and trust very rapidly. Using Psychodynamic and Trauma-Based Therapies as my foundation, I assist clients with a variety of gentle treatment interventions that take into consideration the individual's Whole Self - Mind, Body, Emotions, & Spirit/Soul.

If you are struggling to move on from previous hurts and struggle with emotional outbursts due to memories from you past, I am here to help you process, grieve, and begin anew. I am happy to listen and guide you through life's twists and turns in a way that is best suited for you while also offering my therapeutic perspective. Therapy is YOUR TIME to be heard without judgment or biases!

I provide online & in-person therapy throughout California. I believe that successful therapy begins with a good relationship with your therapist. My priority is to ensure a safe and comfortable space where my clients feel they can be truly heard while being free from both pressure and judgement. I understand that everyone is unique, and I will tailor treatment accordingly to meet you where you are at on your therapeutic journey. I am excited to help you define your strengths, beliefs, and values while helping you achieve your goals.

I work with individuals, couples, and young adults. By listening with the heart and enhancing emotional communications I can help you find your way through difficult life transitions, relationship issues, parent-child difficulties, trauma, or symptoms of anxiety and depression. Everyone has the power and wisdom within to create a life of joy and success. I provide a caring, comfortable and supportive setting to make it possible for you to connect deeply with the strength of spirit that lies within you to uncover your unique power.

I have been working in the field of psychology for the past 20 years and specifically with teens, adults, and children in therapy as well as psychological evaluations for the past 15 years. I work with individuals experiencing a range of concerns including trauma, anxiety, depression, and anger as well as major life transitions, work, and academic problems. I have a particular focus on issues related to adolescence and young adulthood, relationships, trauma, and parenting.

I offer a free phone consultation before setting up our initial meeting, because I believe that it is important to make sure that clients and therapists are a good match for eachother. Although it may be difficult at times to share our life experiences with one another, I have seen that working through our most challenging life events is what helps us grow the most. I love talking with teens, adults, couples, and athletes about the challenges and changes they want to conquer in their life, and I am motivated to be a part of the new lifestyle that people choose to develop for themselves.

As an experienced therapist, I appreciate the energy it takes to confront problems. I take my role seriously in facilitating healing. From short-term crisis management to longer-term psychotherapy, I strive to help you identify what interferes with your personal aspirations. I care about my clients and do my best to minimize any unpleasant symptoms you are experiencing while we work on strategies that move you towards a more satisfying life. I am authentic, non-judgmental, and direct in my approach. If you are feeling emotionally overwhelmed, stuck, anxious, or have tried to make things better without lasting success, I can help.

There is no time like the present. If you’ve found yourself here on my page, you have done what most can only dream of. You have taken the next step, one giant leap of courage, to do this work that you’ve been called to do. This work is not always easy, in fact it can be downright hard & uncomfortable, but it is necessary & rewarding. And with my guidance, hopefully the process can be more than just barrable, maybe even inspiring. It is scary to look into the abyss of uncertainty, but often my client’s find it was not nearly as bad as those nagging thoughts inside their head said it would be & many wish they had started sooner.

"Everything wrong with you started as compensating behavior in childhood & deserves the utmost respect." - Gabor Mate The way out of pain, is through by engaging with it, asking it what it needs. You just want to be accepted and be who you authentically are. Your authentic self never left you, you have just lost touch with it. It is waiting for you to reconcile with it, thank it for helping you be here and working with it. It doesn't matter how you got to the place of losing the authentic you, I can get you back in touch with each other and get your life moving in the direction you want it to go.

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I built my practice based on a lifetime of experience working with people who have experienced trauma in their lives. My goal is to assist you to understand what trauma causes in the hardwiring of your brain, then teach you life skills you can use to alter negative thoughts and impulsive reactions and become the person you wish to be.

Using an integrated approach, including EMDR, I help my clients navigate and heal from trauma and past pains (including PTSD), OCD, Anxiety (generalized anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, and health anxiety), intrusive thoughts and fears, emotional regulation difficulties, chaotic and challenging relationships, codependency and boundary issues, and grief and loss. I work with my clients to help them better understand themselves, to understand why they feel the way they do, how to deal with it, heal from it, and overcome it.

I enjoy working with a variety of clients and find that therapy works best when an individual is willing to confront perspectives, belief systems, and behaviors that are causing problems in their lives, and trust me to help them discover healthier ways of being in the world.

Anxiety, depression and trauma can be overwhelming. Over time, feelings of doubt, fear, sadness or dread take a painful toll on your life. The sense of confidence, joy and optimism that you felt in the past begins to slip away. This is true of CHILDREN, TEENS and ADULTS. With the right help, however, these problems can be overcome. It's possible to regain a happy, confident and full life. We see it happen all the time. Whether you are weighed down by parenting concerns, relationship struggles, anxiety, depression or PTSD, give us a call. The consultation is free and it requires no commitment. We will be happy to talk with you.