"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain"-Anonymous. My therapy style is warm and compassionate as I work with clients that desire to cope and thrive in the midst of anxiety, depression, and stress. I specialize in working with unresolved issues and trauma that result in anxiety, depression, and grief. I am certified in EMDR by EMDRIA. Integrating therapy with spirituality when appropriate is also a special area of focus.

I am a therapist in the Bay Area providing individual psychotherapy, couples and marriage counseling, and child/adolescent therapy. In the current climate, all of my work is being done through online therapy. I enjoy working via gestalt, somatic (body), anger, trauma, dreamwork, and relational modalities.

Is an important relationship causing you pain? Do you want to make changes, but aren't sure how to begin? Call me. From our first session, I will listen carefully to you, ask timely questions and support you to find the tools you need and the motivation to use them. You don't have to do it all alone! Call me to day to see if we might work well together. Just the act of picking up the phone or sending an email can change the way you feel.

Expansive Therapy is a bicoastal psychotherapy practice with locations in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. We have a diverse team of therapists offering a wide variety of modalities and specialties, and we match you with the therapist who best meets your needs. Our mission at Expansive Therapy is to create a safe space to heal and grow, to expand the things that are working, and to encourage personal freedom. Our website is expansivetherapy.com and you can reach our office manager Maria at info@expansivetherapy.com.

The key to emotional health and happiness is nurturing the authentic self, the source of one's primary needs and feelings. When we neglect this essential task, our ability to love and work is compromised. Depression, anxiety, and compulsive behaviors are often signs of alienation from the self. In my work, I integrate psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness, and experiential techniques to help each client's real self emerge and develop. In this way, therapy can serve as a catalyst for personal transformation. It can help you overcome adversity and create a productive, satisfying life, in alignment with your deepest values.

Feeling anxious, depressed, stuck in your life? I offer individual therapy to help you identify your strengths, work through your unresolved issues and find greater pleasure and success in everyday life. If you are struggling with romantic relationships, I can assist you in developing romantic intelligence skills. Dealing with communication problems and conflict in your relationship? I offer Psycho-biological Attachment Couples Therapy to expand your loving connection and build trust and safety.

I'm curious about people: how our unique histories have shaped us, how we relate to each other & what motivates our behavior in relationships. I specialize in processing relationships with couples & individuals struggling with codependency, communication, anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem & identity. We often get stuck in repetitive behavioral/thinking patterns that block us from living the lives we yearn for. We may feel misunderstood or disconnected in our relationships. We may avoid intimacy because we don’t want to get hurt again. We may have a harsh inner critic & lack self-love. Do you experience this in your life?

I believe in closely tailoring a therapeutic approach so that it fully honors each person's individual personality and life circumstance. I work with adolescents on issues including: depression, anxiety, self-esteem, school performance, improving relationships, eating disorders, sexual identity and orientation, and substance abuse. I work with adults including the following: depression, anxiety, parenting challenges, improving relationships, work-life balance, pregnancy and post-partum issues, career concerns, loss or grief, sexual identity and orientation, and substance abuse.

Looking for a therapist who is down to earth, honest and real? I will help you find relief in the short term, so we can work on the underlying issues over the long term. Learn practical skills that will help you improve your relationships. You can end the old conflicts, and start feeling better. As a relationship and career expert, I have devoted my professional life to helping individuals & couples to live with more joy, peace and, ultimately...bliss.

I am a warm, direct, open-minded, and multicultural licensed psychologist, who can help you to understand and work on the source of unhappiness/dissatisfaction in your life. I meet you where you are, work at a pace you're comfortable with, and focus on creating an approach that fits you and helps you to transform your life and relationships. Depending upon your goals and readiness, we can address core issues (e.g., core beliefs such as "I am not good enough") and/or manage current and daily stressors (e.g., work or dating anxiety).

Stress wearing you down? I am certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an empirically validated model for helping couples and families to turn conflicts into opportunities for connection. I also employ both EMDR and IFS (Internal Family Systems) with individuals, have worked extensively with cultural differences at home and professionally, and am a custody evaluator. I specialize in working with interracial, interfaith or LGBT families, as well as parenting and services for children ages 1-7. My practice is poly-friendly and has a social justice orientation.

Are you struggling in your relationships or personal connections? Suffering from depression or anxieties? Experiencing loss, grief or sadness? Work/life balance? You don't need to struggle alone. I'm a psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience, and I'm here to help. Individuals, couples and families call me when they're ready to tackle the problems that make life difficult.

Therapy is a unique opportunity to explore your truest self. It is a space with no right or wrong. I am available for you to discover and be with various parts of yourself. Together, we will explore these pieces and the experiences that cause pain and discomfort; through this, there will be space for healing, understanding, and acceptance. My goal as a therapist is to accompany you on your journey: To guide you in understanding your authentic self as you foster self-love and acceptance for all the parts of yourself.

I look forward to meeting with individuals, couples, and families who are interested in personal growth and change. During the different stages of our life, our relationships, and the family life cycle, we can get stuck in certain places. This is often due to how we live out familiar patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving or relating with others. I find fulfillment in helping people move through these stuck points by bringing about clarity on core issues and exploring possible alternatives for change. I'm best suited to treat relationship problems, depression, father wounds, men with sexual addiction, and grief/loss issues.

Trying to resolve issues in our life can be difficult and serious work but usually worth all the effort and time. These changes may come from sustained effort, learning from past failure, exploring detours, walking in faith, fostering patience to allow change to happen to us, addressing chemical imbalances, and many other factors. Many, perhaps most times in our lives, we can make these changes through our own efforts or help from our friends or family. Sometimes we may need help from professional guidance to help make sense of or add to all of these efforts.

Your Hero's Journey ~ Cultivate Your Inner Compass ~ Feel Seen & Heard. I know what it can feel like to live with emotional turmoil, uncertainty, and confusion. Frustration at wanting to live up to your potential, but feeling stymied? Seeking out therapy is courageous & momentum-building, a step which demonstrates commitment to loving oneself- through self-determination, nurturance & compassion! An invitation to transform & heal via 'wise mind,' the overlap of intuition & intellect. Techniques: mindfulness-based cognitive-behaviorism, somatics, Ericksonian trance, shamanic journey. With regard for your innate sovereignty & dignity.

This defines my view of being a therapist: "One of the greatest privileges of the human being is to become a midwife to the birth of the soul of another person. This is what therapy is about: helping people retrieve what has been lost to them, wakening and bringing home their fundamental wholesomeness” (from Plato's Symposium). John O’Donohue continues: “Therapists are like poets: they draw on the power of words in the profoundly creative work of bringing people fully alive to themselves, awakening in them the human capacity for divine imagination that ‘dreams our completion’.”

I am a clinical psychologist who provides individual and family therapy for youth and adults, and parenting support. I have experience with mood disorders (depression, anxiety), trauma, managing learning challenges, adoption, grief, and loss. My approach varies, drawing from one’s strengths in helping address their unique struggles. I integrate socioeconomic, cultural, gender, and sexual identity issues into therapeutic work. One of my specialities is reflecting on one’s challenges in the context of intergenerational trauma. A person’s family history can shape our relationships with others in both resilient and challenging ways.

Do you have “sticky” self-defeating thoughts that won’t leave you alone? Do you “know” you’re good enough but don’t “feel” it? Have you suffered the loss of a pet or loved one and struggling to find someone who “gets it”? I am here to help with these and more. We have all been faced with major changes and sacrifices in 2020. Some of these changes have left scares and holes in us. I truly believe we all have the power to grow and heal within us; sometimes we just need a little guidance and specialized tools to get started. I can help you gain strength, motivation, resiliency, and a deeper compassion for yourself and your journey.

What matters to you? Being curious makes a significant difference when you are thinking of making changes because now you are interested in yourself - in what you think and feel and want- and want to become. Are relationships your core concern? - wondering what is working and what is not, what is missing, and what is disappointing?Losses or fear of loss makes us anxious, ashamed, often traumatized by our own feelings. I am committed to working with your personal needs in a trusting, creative, dynamic, caring process and will help you achieve what you desire. Real changes take real time.