Therapists in Los Altos, CA

If you are struggling to find purpose and direction in your life, improve your personal relationships, find peace with food and your body, or increase self-acceptance, you’re not alone. I help teens and adults who are also anxious, depressed, or unhappy with themselves or their relationships. Some are trapped in unhealthy eating patterns or are overwhelmed with a new chapter in their lives. I’d like to help you, too.

Hello, how can I help? My passion is helping people find their inner strength. I have extensive experience helping people with depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Offering weekend appointments.

Let's have the conversation that changes your life. I help gifted problem solvers overcome the challenges (and clean up the messes) they tend to create. I'm The Silicon Valley Therapist, a former engineer with genuine people skills. I'm fluent in both English and Nerd, and can bridge the abyss between them. Would insight, compassion and inspiration help? My esoteric blend of experience, skill and humor enables individuals to thrive and couples to reconnect. I work with HiTech professionals and the Super-Intelligent (and those trying to love them). What does "doing better" mean to you right now?

With training from top national universities and experience at well known agencies, I have effectively treated individuals with anxiety, mood disorder, and ADHD. As well, having worked at the Regional Center for the past 8 years, I have gained extensive knowledge and experience in my work with individuals on the Autism Spectrum, including Aspergers Syndrome. I work therapeutically with children (10 year old and older), adolescents, and young adults. I conduct psycho-educational and psycho-diagnostic assessments as well as comprehensive Autism Spectrum assessments with children ( 6 years old and older), adolescents, and adults.

Do you feel stuck in your personal or professional life? Do the stresses of life's responsibilities become at times overwhelming----so much so that at times, it feels like it is hard to cope, or that everything is getting too hard to deal with? Remember it is perfectly normal to seek support from time to time. I can help you to become more aware of your conflicts and patterns of behavior that can get in your way. My goal is to help you move towards developing more satisfying ways to cope, find confidence, and gain control of your life.

Working with individuals who feel they need some extra support to tackle challenges that life throws at them is my passion. I believe that through the relationship and work between client and therapist, behaviors can be adjusted, relationships can be mended, unhealthy coping skills can be identified and reworked, and healthy change can occur. I create a safe, comfortable therapeutic environment where individuals can succeed in making positive growth in their lives. Taking a straightforward, honest, relaxed and empathetic approach to supporting clients frees clients to open up, discover their strengths and make the most of therapy.

You may have found yourself feeling different or off. These feelings may include being worried, anxious, uneasy or sad, unmotivated, hopeless. These issues may be impacting your overall mood, relationships, or other aspects of your life socially and/or professionally. You've made it to this page because you're in a place where you want to take action and make a change but want support along the way. My role is to use my years of experience to help you achieve your personal goals. Goals that make sense for your lifestyle and to offer coping skills that you can use within and in between sessions.

I believe that my role as a therapist is to join with the client in understanding him/her/themself better. I facilitate the journey of self-exploration, believing that change comes through identifying and articulating thoughts and emotions in the process of an interpersonal relationship and more directive strategies if indicated. I have a calm, gentle demeanor that creates a supportive and nurturing setting.

I enjoy working with adults of all ages to address anxiety, depression, stress, life transitions, and provide compassionate guidance while navigating personal challenges. I view therapy as a collaborative process that offers a unique opportunity to gain insight into your internal and external worlds, relationships, and address your aspirations and goals. My therapeutic approach is warm, supportive, and engaging.

I believe living a successful life is a process, and I see therapy as an instrument for change and growth. My approach to therapy is to provide a comfortable and safe place to discuss issues and concerns, and ultimately develop skills to deal with them. I believe in a humanistic approach to therapy, where I treat my patients as unique individuals. I will meet you and try to understand what is most meaningful for you, and what changes in life you are looking for. I work with clients on understanding themselves and their responses, so they can improve where they feel they need it the most.

Anxiety can be a debilitating condition. Fortunately, cognitive behavioral therapy has been proven to help people break free from anxiety's limitations. I work with individuals struggling with worry, indecisiveness, OCD, panic disorder, social anxiety, and generalized anxiety. I work collaboratively with people to set concrete goals and then systematically go about achieving them. My ideal client is someone who no longer wants anxiety to dictate their choices in life. My clients want the freedom and flexibility to make decisions based on values rather than fear.

I believe in connecting and supporting you in a compassionate way. I can help you find a resolution and create a positive change by working with the body – mind connection while applying methods such as Hakomi and IFS. When working together, we'll focus on the present moment as you head down the path to healing and health. With over 15 years in the field supporting adults, couples and families, I have developed the unique ability to bring to light your strengths while providing a platform of hope and happiness.

I believe in focusing on "what's right with you" and not "what's wrong with you." Too many people overlook positive effort, persistence and one's innately good instincts, and instead focus on deficits. By leveraging strengths against challenges, clients are much more able to grow and develop into healthy and capable adults. I have worked with neurodivergent and neurotypical K12 and college students for over 15 years on discovering their skills and assets, their learning styles, social styles, preferences, opinions and everything else that makes them uniquely who they are.

In my role as your therapist, I listen, think , propose, explore, teach, and challenge. My approach to therapy is best described as caring, and compassionate. I am committed to providing depth-oriented psychotherapy for you and your loved one. I bring a warm, non-judgmental approach that provides a safe environment and opportunities to address both short and long terms goals. Grief, loss, trauma, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, ADHD, Asperger, divorce, postpartum depression, cultural diversity and adjustment, are among the different issues I have experience working with. I work with adult, couples, school-age children, pre-teens, adolescents, and their families.

I aspire to create a safe, structured and warm therapeutic environment to facilitate the patient's personal growth while helping patients develop more insight, explore the history of their problems, and recognize unhealthy patterns. My therapeutic process has developed over 25 years of practice and training. Some of the areas of psychology from which I draw are psychodynamic, attachment theory, object relations and family systems. My goal is that through therapy, my patients feel understood, supported and comfortably challenged. During our first meeting we explore together what brought you to therapy..what is occuring in your life that is causing difficulties, and where perhaps you may be hindering yourself. For the most part therapy is a guided process where you learn more deeply about yourself and develop better coping skills with an improved capacity to handle emotional difficulties in a healthy, fulfilling manner.

The idea of therapy might seem like a daunting or even dreadful experience, especially if you already have so much on your plate. You might be juggling a lot right now- school and/or work, family, friends, and relationships while simultaneously feeling lost, unmotivated, exhausted and overwhelmed. Feelings of anxiety and depression might even feel like the norm, but it doesn’t have to be this way. I provide a safe, warm, and non-judgmental environment and use evidence-based treatment methods to help you take on life’s challenges.

Stress, worry, and sadness are all too common for many driven individuals in the Bay Area. In the safe environment of therapy, we work together to develop hope and a way out of challenges, using a personalized approach of empirically based techniques as well as creative tools. Together and in your own pace, we unpack the emotions and challenges you're facing, and create insight around patterns and thoughts that no longer serve you. Through Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Mindfulness, we develop coping skills to manage the inevitable challenges of life in a way that builds your confidence and resiliency.

Hi and welcome.. I am a relationship, trauma and culture sensitive therapist in Los Altos, CA. If you feel that you are, are going through, have seen or lived through "too much," I offer you professional and compassionate support honoring your unique experiences, recognizing the courage it takes to seek help, speak your truth and trust someone new. I am passionate about helping you not just cope in life but find your way to lasting peace, liberation and healing through the power of your innate wisdom and our collaborative alliance. It would be a great honor to be considered as your therapist and a privilege to join you on your path.

Most of us, if not all of us, come to a point in life where we need to regain our balance and redefine our goals. I know so because I have seen my clients, friends, and myself in such situations. By working together with you, I can help you to focus, mobilize your inner strength and establish new strategies to overcome problems that have become apparent. Topics that I handle (but I am not restricted to) are grief and trauma coping, relationship or family issues, anger management, and cultural or generational conflicts.