Therapists in Glendale, CA

I am here to help you embrace your authenticity and find liberation from stories, patterns, habits and ways of being that don't fit who you want to be. I am passionate about working with young adults navigating adulthood and transitioning into life beyond families of origin; folks healing from racial trauma and minority stress; and couples and partners looking for better communication, security, and connection. I am especially drawn to working with LGBTQ+ adolescents and young adults embracing queerness and supporting other white, cis men to cultivate their own vulnerable, feminist masculinity and allyship.

My goal is to help you change and create the life you desire. In my practice with individuals, couples and families, I'll work together with you to identify the problem and work towards the solution. By applying creative therapeutic approaches and techniques, we'll discover unhelpful behavior patterns or negative thoughts that may be holding you back from experiencing a more fulfilling and meaningful life. I am able to integrate powerful techniques in treating couples. I completed Levels 1&2 Gottman training in assessment and intervention with couples.

I trained in Boston. Boston College was my graduate school, Beth Israel Hospital the site of my clinical education, and MIT, where I was a Senior Research Associate, the start of my professional career. In 1976, I emerged a licensed clinical psychologist in Massachusetts and began a practice treating young people, couples and families. I also worked as a community therapist with teachers, parents and students, to help integrate three Boston's public schools.

I specialize in helping artists, writers, journalists, authors, musicians, actors, filmmakers and creative people from all walks of life to rediscover and reconnect with their passion and creativity. As a writer myself, I understand how artistic pursuits can bring up unexpected connections and challenges in our personal lives and vice versa. It would be a privilege to work together toward a more balanced, robust, and hopeful existence. Let me be your guide & support as we build essential coping skills, explore the past & develop tools and resources to turn daydreams into reality now and in the future. I look forward to meeting you!

The soul's journey can be a transformative one, when we are able to navigate the challenges along the way. These difficult moments can be overwhelming leading us to feel alone, lost, and uncertain. As our symptoms speak to our souls, we are called upon to deepen our understanding of ourselves, so we can restructure our fragmented pieces back to wholeness. These symptoms bring attention to our psyche revealing the glimpse of hope that still resides in us and now searches for support in overcoming these challenges.

I provide a safe environment to explore and resolve beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that stand in the way of living a fully conscious and authentic life. Specialties include work with anxiety, depression, trauma, divorce, death, attachment ruptures, and ancestral/ inter-generational shame, and PTSD. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I have studied at the Graduate Theological Union - University of California, Berkeley, The Graduate School for Marriage and Family Therapy, Ca.Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco), and The Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. I hold two Masters degrees and a Ph D in Psychology.

Are you having trouble with difficult people in your life? Do you want to rediscover yourself and your life's purpose? Are you looking for specific strategies to live a more balanced and fulfilling life? I can help. Together we'll explore your self-defeating behaviors, irrational thoughts and family dynamics. We will also concentrate on what makes you unique, resilient and hopeful. My approach to therapy is creative, lively and experiential. The awareness that will come with this journey of discovery, coupled with a genuine therapeutic relationship between us, will lead to long-term growth and healing.

I enjoy working with couples, adults, and teenagers. I frequently find myself doing trauma work with clients, exploring issues related to family dynamics, ethical non-monogamy, self-doubt, anxiety, depression, motivation and self-actualization, gender identity, and sex positivity. I work with a lot of artists, creative individuals, neurodiverse folks, gender expansive folks, and the LGBTQIA+ community.

Don’t recognize yourself in the mirror? Feeling out of integrity with who you really are? Struggling to come into your identity with confidence? Isolated and hopeless, or lost in your relationships? I deeply understand how painful these challenges are, and how awful it is to be misunderstood. As a queer, sober woman I've worked through many of these challenges myself. This is why I specialize in working with young adults, adolescents and couples. My goal as a transpersonal counselor is to guide you toward self-realization and freedom from the weight of your past, expanding beyond the traditional western framework of therapy.