Body Positivity Therapists in Penn Valley, CA

You have built this persona on the screen to keep the viewers engaged and the subscriptions flowing, but when the camera shuts off and everyone leaves, you feel disconnected, alone in your own body. When you first started making content, everything seemed fine; you were excited to make money. You got to hang out with some fantastic people, collaborate with others you always dreamed about, made new friends, the parties & drugs were fun. You thought this was glamorous; people know you as a great actor, but now, when you wake up every day, you feel less connected to who you are. You never could've anticipated this when you started.

Depression. Anxiety. Anger. Numbness. The difficult symptoms that color experiences are merely the smoke from fires sourced far deeper within the caves of being. Pull up a chair and share your story. Together, we will untangle the knots that bind and restrict, inhibiting you from embracing all this life has to offer. The best You awaits!

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”- Joseph Campbell. Welcome! Servicios en español. Services en français. I’m passionate about helping people achieve transformation and well-being during challenging times in life. Over the years, many of my clients have shared with me that they’ve benefited from my ability to deeply listen, and to hold space for them during their most difficult moments. I’m so honored by this feedback. It serves as my inspiration to continue to assist in facilitating change and relief for my clients.

Our work together is about building trust, creating aliveness and healing in a collaborative and empowering safe space. I offer Brainspotting and other modalities that promote greater awareness, health, presence, and mindfulness. I love to work with individuals and with couples to gain harmony and growth in their lives. Some specialties include conscious parenting skills, pre-marital counseling, soul retrieval, depth psychology, pre-natal and postpartum counseling, recovery from narcissistic and domestic abuse, career counseling, and support for couples and single parents. Co-parenting counseling.

I want to be your sparkle homie (a.k.a. therapist). What does it mean to be a sparkle homie? To me, a sparkle homie is a person who “gets you” where you are at. As a therapist (and sparkle homie), I seek to affirm, understand, and truly see folx. I utilize holistic, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive therapies to be a partner in folxs’ journeys toward wholeness.

Does stress and burnout keep you up at night? Are you feeling irritable, not quite yourself or constantly scrolling on your phone to numb out? Does the weight of depression or anxiety feel too overwhelming for you or your child? Know that you and your family are not alone. Let's have genuine conversations, explore practical solutions, and work together to bring peace and relief to you and your family.

The challenge is walking up in the morning and making sense of our lives in order to get going. The times that we live in are becoming increasingly more difficult. It is easy to feel alone, lost, stuck, and without a compass to find our path. The way to turn things around in our lives starts here and now. You have come to a safe place where you can be vulnerable, heard, and seen through and through.

I am here to support you with healing the wounds of your past, stepping more fully into your power, and living a life that is closely aligned with your values. I have extensive experience working with people with trauma histories and I am trained in EMDR along with a variety of other approaches to support trauma healing. I focus on helping people identify and build on their existing strengths to experience more worthiness and empowerment in their lives. I am offering both in-person and online sessions at this time.

I work with clients who are (highly) sensitive, empathic, or intuitive. Sensitive people have a finely attuned nervous system that is a huge gift when made conscious. They experience life deeply, yet don't always feel easily understood by others. Growing up, they often experienced not fitting in, and have adapted to a largely non-sensitive world in myriad ways that didn't always serve their best interest. I support sensitive people on their path to finding their voice, experiencing genuine relationships, purposeful work, and reclaiming their space in the world.

We all walk through valleys in our lives, my hope is that you don't walk it alone. There are sometimes scary parts of us, my hope is to help them become less scary. I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I put my heart and soul into walking alongside my clients. I strive to have a safe and collaborative relationship in which we work together to find the answers and solutions you are in need of, striving to help you see yourself more fully, so that ultimately you feel deep healing and empowerment. We are all on a journey of becoming a better version of ourselves, it would be an honor to be a part of your journey.

"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us." - Meister Echkart. I am an integral psychotherapist who specializes in working with adult individuals and couples. My approach is person-centered, and I believe that clients benefit most from the truth that they, themselves, discover. My training is grounded in transpersonal psychotherapy, which is informed by depth psychology, existential/humanistic perspectives, and perennial philosophy.

If you or your child is suffering from depression, anxiety, relational problems, eating disorders, ADHD, the effect of trauma, grief, loss, as well as a mood or personality disorder, I can help you develop skills in your present life aimed at restoring healthy and meaningful strategies in your daily experience.

Are you ready to heal? Ready to break unhealthy patterns that no longer serve you? I can help. I aim to create a therapeutic relationship and setting that is a living sanctuary for your heart and soul. In the darkest night of unimaginable pain and grief, one hand to hold, one heart to listen, can be all that's needed to make it until the sun rises again.

Most of my clients come to me because they feel “stuck” in their lives. They may feel stuck in unfulfilling patterns, a trauma cycle, a sense of purposelessness, grief, depression or anxiety. They may be caught in an oppressive societal perspective of what it means to be “healthy.” In most cases, these symptoms are not enemies, but indicators that something new – a new perspective, a new story – is attempting to emerge, like a sapling pushing its way from beneath the ground.