Culturally Sensitive Therapists in Inyo County, CA

Spring brings change, which can be challenging for mental health. The season's shifts may trigger grief, loss-related emotions, anxiety, stress, and other difficult emotions. Are you experiencing unpredictable waves of grief, hindering your ability to function at work, in relationships, or daily life. This can significantly impact your sense of self and confidence in handling everyday tasks. If you're struggling with sadness, worry, trauma symptoms, or disconnection, you don't have to face it alone. Help is available.

I offer evidence-based therapy for adults, teens, families, couples and groups. I see clients by Tele-Health or In-person (if you happen to be in the remote Eastern Sierra area of Bishop, California). WELCOME! I provide a safe therapeutic environment and fill it with empathy, expertise, hope and humor.

My non-judgmental approach is to practice mindfulness and self-compassion in psychotherapy. I will meet you where you are, provide you with a warm environment that promotes emotional healing and can lead to incredible transformations. Setting achievable goals is an important component of self-efficacy and empowerment, and instills hope for change. My integrative approach; depending on your needs as an individual or a couple, helping you create emotional balance, which involve mindfulness, compassion and strength based, motivational interviewing, ACT, CBT, DBT, CPT, EFT, ERP, and Gottman theory for couples.

I hope to support you in your wellness and healing journey. Part of the journey is making the connection between your mind, body, and soul. With guidance, we can allow ourselves to tap in and sit with our emotions. This provides the opportunity to feel, process, and heal. I invite you to join me as I provide a compassionate space to help increase and strengthen your insight into how your lived experiences affect your life and patterns.

Eastern Sierra Counseling has ten different therapists including Daniel Ranson, LCSW (pictured) working both in-person and telehealth in Ridgecrest, Bishop, and Mammoth Lakes, California. We also manage the only in-person psychiatry practice in all three of these locations so that our team can offer a comprehensive, behavioral health experience to meet patient needs. We presently operate the largest employee assistance program in Mono and Inyo counties.

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.

I am a depth psychologist which informs my practice of serving individuals, couples, and families. In my experience over the past 30 years, I have learned that psychotherapy and Western medicine are often at odds. Western medicine has its miracles for which I am deeply grateful, but I believe that many children and adults are given medications for trauma-based symptoms before other healing practices have been explored. I make it my practice to help my clients learn awareness of all that contributes to their states of mind and body, and then to teach skills and practices that create freedom from symptoms.

My work with clients is based on the holistic philosophy of transpersonal, humanistic, mindfulness, and depth psychology. I use a client-centric approach that honors the lived experience and inherent wisdom of my clients in the dimensions of mind, body, emotions, spirituality, creativity, and community. The therapeutic process is focused on facilitating a client's self-awareness, self-acceptance, curiosity, and courage to change. Clients who benefit most from this approach have a strong desire to heal, gain insight, and transform insight into action.