Therapists in Grass Valley, CA

Caring, compassionate counseling to help clients move forward through challenges and make positive life changes. I work with individuals and couples to address relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, trauma, stress management, low self-esteem, perfectionism, and new pathways for personal growth. While working with individuals, clients set the goals that they wish to address. My role is to listen, encourage, and guide clients in a process of self-discovery and self-mastery. Sometimes clients are trying to heal from past trauma and move forward. Sessions offer support for healing and learning new healthy ways to live.

You are your most important asset! Your optimum mindset and mental health drives every outcome in your life. Your relationships, your career, your quality of life and even your physical health are all influenced and powered by your unique mental, emotional and spiritual energy. Maybe you’ve tried therapy before but this time you are looking for something different. Something more…that will speak to your soul and energize your spirit. You would like to tap into your innate power to attract and maintain emotional balance, success, wealth and healthy relationships. There is hope! You don’t have to do this alone!

I have been practicing psychotherapy since 2004 and am currently serving as the Director of the Center for Transformational Psychotherapy in Grass Valley. I have developed a process called Awareness-Based Emotional Processing to help my clients expand their feeling capacity and establish emotional well-being individually and in relationship.

Having a guide who has experienced life's uncertainty, challenges and hardships provides an immediate space of understanding, validation and empathy. This nurtures self-discoveries, confidence and emphasizes internal wisdoms. It is this type of therapeutic relationship where personal courage is discovered, healing is allowed and authentic living is inspired.

Life can be challenging. Are you feeling depressed, anxious, overwhelmed, and stuck? Would you like life to be more fulfilling, and feel happy, empowered, and satisfied in your close relationships? Would you like to learn communication techniques and stress management skills that really work? Are you interested in transformation. If so I can help. My aim is to help you get quick relief in your life now, and empower you with skills, and tools to discover your innate wisdom, in the face of life challenges. I will help you create the life you want and love the life you live.

The best project you will ever work on is YOU (or your relationships). There is HOPE and everyone has a story. I am here to hear yours, your families, relationships or child's. I will coach you through the challenges you face with compassion and trust. I am a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Sierra Family Therapy Centers in Nevada County. I work with couples, individuals and troubled teens/children. My approach is strength-based, providing support and feedback to my clients in order to help gain insight towards improving your life.

Change—both expected and wanted or the complete opposite—affects us all, and we cope with it in varying ways. Traumatic events are never planned and often require new strategies to effectively navigate a world that may no longer feel as safe as it once had. The impact of loss, anticipated or not, deeply affects individuals, families and couples. My clinical practice is built on an investment in encouraging one’s own narrative expression of the human experience, identifying skills and strategies for living one’s best life, and providing a secure and caring place in which to grow and love change.

During difficult times, no matter how big or small the issue may be, I extend an invitation to provide support and guidance, while you and/or your family member(s) take steps towards healing. Everyone knows or understands what it means to suffer - whether one grew up in a volatile family system, carries the scars of traumatic life events or lives with feelings of self-doubt, inner discord or unhappiness. I can provide you with a client and trauma - centered approach to healing. I will help you acquire the balance, relief, or personal development you are seeking.

What often brings an individual to therapy is encountering the trials and challenges that life inevitably serves up. If you are struggling to overcome or even cope with the challenges you face I offer you my support in your journey to a more peaceful and fulfilling life. I understand that each client has a unique life situation and history. My goal is to provide an environment that is compassionate, safe and nonjudgmental so that we can identify and achieve the therapeutic goals you desire.

Thank You for your time. Over the years I have worked with people from varied walks of life including children with social and emotional difficulties, adolescents facing their own unique challenges, adults, couples and entire families. I have been fortunate to train with experts in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Object Relations, Self Psychology, Play and Sand Tray Therapy as well as, Family Systems, Structural Family Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. In addition, I am certified in the clinical application of hypnotherapy through, and former Vice President of, the American Psychotherapy & Medical Hypnosis Association.

Trauma-informed Expressive Arts clinician, multicultural narrative approaches are applied with self-reflective multi-dimensional art modalities that grow your understanding of who you are, what your values are, and why you think, feel, and act the way you do. Vital energy practitioner that calls on the wisdom of our ancestors and modern understandings of trauma, psychology and somatic (body) awareness and peaceful practices to restore equilibrium that confirms the journey IS the destination. Patterns of intergenerational trauma & gift transmission identified and decoded through Attachment Theory. Get clarity of brain-body process

You are on a path toward healing. I would love to partner with you and bring my training and experience to support your healing and growth. Individuals, couples, families, and children are all welcome. I work with Narrative, Existential, and Strengths Based modalities to help you find meaning in suffering, create a new narrative, and capitalize on the strengths you already have. I am trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR. I provide therapy in English and in Spanish.

Do you feel like you are disconnected from your partner or do you fight all the time? I know what these struggles feel like, and I know how painful it is to face those problems alone. Creating stronger and healthier relationships and sex lives is my primary focus. I have extensive training in helping couples and I get down to business in the very first session. I offer individual therapy, couples therapy, two day in person intensives for more complex issues, and Discernment Counseling. Get more information about my approach at my website: www.relationshipexplorations.com.

I appreciate your search for the right fit, and know it can be challenging. If you are feeling stuck, or struggling, then you may need new tools and strategies to help make sense of your experience. Admitting we need support is often the greatest hurdle. Here, you'll find compassion, curiosity and reflective listening. I also take an active role in providing feedback, offering guidance and insight, even homework when helpful. I have over 30 years’ experience assisting all kinds of people to find their way to center, build internal resources, rediscover choice and find deep, lasting healing.

I want to help you. But are we a good fit? Here's what my clients appreciate most about me: 1. They KNOW they'll be accepted and valued no matter what they share with me. 2. They value my skills as an empath because I can get to the solutions they need much more precisely. 3. They want a dynamic combination of spiritual guidance and concrete steps to their desired goals. 4. They know they can obtain information about sex and sexuality that is not available from their doctor or even online. 5. They trust me to see and foster their personal best!

Currently a therapist at Kindred Heart Therapy Group. The human experience can feel extremely daunting. There are numerous reasons why someone might want to come to therapy. A specific challenge, a traumatic loss, or a life transition can create distress in our personal lives. My approach is providing a comfortable space of trust and safety to help you better understand your emotions. I strive to provide helpful ways to cope with difficult feelings that no longer serve you. I offer a place of warmth, where you can feel seen and supported. My approach is centered on the needs of each individual I serve.