I love helping clients who feel stuck with anxiety, depression, or trauma become “unstuck.” In my therapy space, I strive to create a supportive environment for people to explore their emotions – and the experiences that shaped those emotions. With individuals, couples, and families, I work collaboratively to understand how previous dynamics, especially with families of origin, contribute to their current thoughts and coping skills. When clients understand how their past relationships influence their current selves, they are better able to build new futures, with greater self-acceptance, growth, new skills, and overall happiness.

Life is difficult at times. Creating change within oneself that is lasting and meaningful sometimes requires a little assistance. I provide evidence based psychotherapy to adolescents and adults that helps to restore the balance lost in everyday relationships. I specialize in grief and loss issues, resolving trauma, and navigating through life's transitions. Psychotherapy is always collaborative and client centered. Although life can be challenging at times, there are ways to renew purpose, reconnect, and re-establish a sense of trust. As such, my primary goal as an independent psychologist is to assist clients in achieving their very best life.

Do you find yourself being attracted to romantic partners that leave you feeling unsupported and unloved, smothered and engulfed, or with whom you lose your identity? I have been very successful in assisting people with identifying patterns of behavior, attachment style, and communication issues that may have become ingrained and habitual. And then work to develop new ways of relating that are more effective and satisfying, and increase one's ability to be securely attached, comfortable with both intimacy and individuation in healthier relationships. Do you struggle with anxiety or depression, low self-esteem or lack of assertiveness?

TRANSFORM OVEREATING! You can lose weight without depriving yourself of or punishing yourself with food. This may sound crazy, but if you learn to love the body you have, change can be lasting and genuinely satisfying. Using a holistic and non-diet approach, you will discover how to deeply care for yourself while setting loving limits with others. Together, we'll identify what makes you run to the fridge so your relationship with food is changed for good.

We all have the capacity to heal and improve our lives. As a bilingual, bicultural, licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience, I offer tools to overcome stumbling blocs in a safe, caring environment. Together we can discuss challenges and options to enable you to change self-defeating patterns and make effective and fulfilling choices.

You keep wondering if you are repeating the same pattern again and again; it feels inevitable and totally out of your control and yet you can't stop blaming yourself. I commend you for holding on to hope, for reaching out. It requires courage and inner strength to look for someone who is trained to listen and help. I have training and experience helping those who struggle with depression, anxiety, memories of trauma, career and relationship difficulties.

Working collaboratively with clients, I bring a supportive, focused, and practical approach to therapy. My aim is to assist you in making the desired changes in your life and becoming unstuck from habitual patterns. Whether what brings you to therapy is depression, anxiety, traumatic circumstances, relational challenges, or addictive patterns, the work we do together would be unique to your personal style, goals and needs. My training and experience includes Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR, parts work, mindfulness and psychodynamic psychotherapies. I provide therapy in English and Spanish. I am a professionally certified yoga teacher.

**Now accepting NEW CLIENTS** I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 7 years in the field. My personal philosophy regarding therapy and its purpose is to treat the client with the utmost respect, compassion and dignity while also moving them forward to find the solutions to the numerous problems they face; mental, physical and spiritual. I believe that the client is the expert, that they hold the keys to their happiness and it is my goal to shine the right amount of light on specific areas in their life so they arrive at the solution and attain a more fulfilling and higher level of functioning.

My work with each client is integrative and dynamic. My "home base" is in contemporary feminist psychodynamic therapy, but I utilize techniques from CBT, DBT, internal family systems, mindfulness, and sensorimotor psychotherapy to tailor my approach to a client's presenting needs. I'm a firm believer that a person will not feel safe exploring difficult areas in therapy if they don't feel comfortable with the human sitting across from them. Therefore, I want you to see my personality and sense of humor as we collaborate, so that we can build a strong working relationship built on trust and mutual understanding.

Thank you for visiting my page. Welcome! I know that choosing a therapist is a difficult task and that embarking in a therapeutic treatment requires a lot of courage. I am certain that the warm, and nonjudgmental environment that I provide will help you feel safe and supported as you explore the problems that interfere with the way that you want to live your life. I am pleased that you have enough self-awareness to realize that you need to act now.

All human beings have within themselves the capacity for living happy, meaningful lives. We are meant to thrive, however it is quite common for distressing life experiences to interfere with our natural way of being. Sometimes obstacles are known to us, but have been resistant to change. Others remain hidden, but what we do notice clearly are psychological and emotional symptoms of distress (depression, fear and anxiety, emotional reactivity, irritability, addictions, etc.). These symptoms can significantly impact our quality of life, and almost always cause problems in relationships.

What if I said it is possible to heal AND thrive? That we can work as a team to equip you with the tools needed to embody lasting, deep seeded change? For over a decade, I’ve helped individuals reconnect with their authentic self, effectively manage their mental health, and flourish mind, body, and spirit. Through experience gained in the US & abroad, I’ve developed a therapeutic style which my clients define as empowering, collaborative, and interactive. I start each therapy journey with the belief that the individual is HUMAN and not their symptoms, life stressors, or illness.

I am a seasoned psychotherapist, with 25 plus years of Clinical experience. I have worked extensively with individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, feelings of isolation, grief, relationship issues, and life stage transitions. Individuals and families facing parenting and adoption challenges are an additional focus of my practice. I also offer psychodynamically oriented Clinical Supervision to therapists at all levels of experience. I am committed to working with you to ensure therapy is financially accessible.

I am a licensed psychologist who is trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Patients who come to me are looking to understand the significance and meaning of their most difficult-to-solve problems—problems like anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relational struggles, and self-harm. They are often patients who have not had success with short-term and/or cognitive therapies, and they have a sense that their struggles signify something more than mere dysfunction—that their problems point to something unique and unknown about themselves.

Therapy is about seeking balance and asking questions and looking for answers. Finding a balance between what we feel and what we know and a balance between the quicker emotional side of our mind and the more considered rational side are part of the process. Whether the questions are around interpersonal relationships, substance abuse, parenting, or career and motivation the answers will come only with this balance. My approach to therapy is about solving problems based on a relational and collaborative approach offering a supportive and sympathetic ear balanced with reality and solutions.

Welcome! I am a clinical social worker who has over 20 years of experience working with children and families, as well as individuals in need of additional support. I specialize in child and adolescent development and the impact of trauma and loss. I work with individuals and/or families on self-identified goals for either short-term or long-term therapy. I look forward to our collaboration. Bienvenida! Soy una doctora con más que 20 años de experiencia trabajando con niños y familias, incluyendo individuos que necesitan apoyo adicional. Si Ud. o su hijo necesitan un consejero, espero hablar con Ud.

Stress, anxiety and depression characterize modern day living; working therapeutically I can help you to reduce stress and make meaningful change in your life. The heart of my clinical practice is to provide clients with a continuity of human relatedness while self-change is taking place. I offer a warm environment that can facilitate a creative dialogue between internal and external reality. Uniquely relational yet still uniquely individual this is a space where conflict and its resolution can develop.

I specialize in post-partum depression, affective disorders, and the effects of trauma (PTSD) on the development of the self. Psychotherapy is a therapeutic relationship between you and me. We investigate what things are working for you and what are not. We sort through the "how come" of it all, so that you have more knowledge about yourself and the freedom to make informed choices.

My practice is currently full. I provide a warm, attentive, and interactive psychotherapy relationship that aims to help people deepen their self-understanding, break out of hurtful patterns, and develop new modes of thinking, feeling, and relating to others that will reduce depression and anxiety. I am particularly interested in trying to help clients feel freer, more real, more connected, and more like the authors of their own lives, so that they can achieve what they hope for in work and relationships.