Therapists in Auburn, CA

I enjoy working children and adults who want to get past traumatic experiences and move into new ways of seeing their world.

While all of us experience life's ups and downs, it can be a struggle to find the path through by yourself. The journey does not have to be a lonely one. I am committed to supporting you and or your family move beyond feeling stuck and hopeless. Whether you are a survivor of abuse or trauma, worried about your child, experiencing a painful loss, or find yourself repeating unwanted behaviors. I understand and am here to help you find your way to the life you want.

Insights Counseling Group, is a non profit staffed with therapists and interns who have life experience and know first hand that losses occur from transitions like divorce, adoption, childbirth, career loss, & retirement. Many times these losses are compounded over time building compounded trauma. Insights offers EMDR, creative expression, & psychotherapy to help you normalize uncomfortable feelings and cope with changes and to further integrate trauma. Together we create a plan to get you closer to living out your truth & your core values. We can help you attain your goals.

At this time, our practice is full. Please email or call to join the waitlist. Thank you. Are you struggling with parenting, connecting with your partner or building meaningful relationships? Or perhaps you want to better understand your spouse. We can often feel overwhelmed and unable to see our role in the problem. This tends to cause anxiety, depression, and can sometimes cause us to turn to substances to cope. Sometimes we just need a little guidance to get us to our goals.

Nearly everybody is affected by some form of seemingly, unmanageable challenge at some point in their life. Whatever you want to call it, our emotional struggles can make life feel unmanageable. The good thing is that you can get through it, but more importantly, you can even be better because of it! Therapy is a powerful journey and I truly enjoy helping my clients to work through their struggles. I have witnessed the positive impact that hope and compassion can have on my clients’ lives.

Hello and welcome! I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist working in a small practice in Auburn. In addition to being an Associate Therapist, I am also a Registered Nurse, a Certified Forest Therapy Guide, and a Poetry Therapy facilitator. I draw upon the energy and skills of all of these healing practices in order to offer clients a wide variety of perspectives and experiences. My approach to therapy is warm and down-to-earth. I believe that therapy is, at its core, a conversation that can open our hearts. Through this conversation we create a relationship that has the potential to inspire growth, insight, and change.

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” - Henry David Thoreau. A strong belief of mine is the power of connection and healthy relationships. To sit with someone with unconditional acceptance and positive regard is something I hold dear and bring with me to my practice. Everyone deserves to be seen and valued.

My goal is to help individuals and families in crisis. I have 4 areas of passion. I love working with children, teenagers, and their parents. My second area of passion is working with narcissistic recovery and survivors of narcissistic relationships (both adults and children). Third, working with my clients to rewire their brains and change emotional reactions. I integrate experiential interventions, mindfulness, coping, and other tools in both individual adult and adolescent therapy. Finally, I enjoy neuropsychological and psychological assessments for all age groups.

I am committed to providing a safe and protected space for you. My approach to therapy combines warmth, compassion and insight with practical problem solving. Therapy can be a powerful step toward solving problems and healing emotional wounds.I believe the best therapy is individualized to the client and that all people are resilient, with the inner strength necessary to grow and heal. I have several years of experience working with individuals. I combine insight, depth, and humanistic approaches to therapy and utilize dream work, as a way of looking deeper. I look forward to talking with you.

I have over 30 years experience counseling children and adolescents. I have always had a passion to help people and my interests and experience as a therapist have led me to working with children and trauma. When a person is very upset, their brain cannot process information as it does ordinarily. Highly emotionally charged experiences become ‘frozen in time’ and are not processed in the usual way. My goal is to help reprocess those events to a resolution that is life-affirming and strength-building.

We all walk through valleys in our lives, my hope is that you don't walk it alone. There are sometimes scary parts of us, my hope is to help them become less scary. I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I put my heart and soul into walking alongside my clients. I strive to have a safe and collaborative relationship in which we work together to find the answers and solutions you are in need of, striving to help you see yourself more fully, so that ultimately you feel deep healing and empowerment. We are all on a journey of becoming a better version of ourselves, it would be an honor to be a part of your journey.

My objective is to help people gain insight and live with more intention. I specialize in early childhood, family systems and couples. I work with individuals to support better function within the complex systems of family and society. I am passionate about creating a space for not only self-discovery and self acceptance, but to allow clients to feel seen, heard, and valued. I enjoy exploring with my clients is their upbringing and how it's affected their relationships. I have extensive experience helping clients use assertive communication to set boundaries in their relationships.

With this nonstop world effecting each person differently, I enjoy working with others where they are in their lives and where they want to be. It is my honor to work and support people in their journey on finding who they are, where they want to be, making sense what is going on, and getting back to their values that supports their internal and external world. I adroitly work with adolescences and adults to effectively manager symptoms of addiction, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and impulsivity actions.

My clients are people of all ages who find themselves ready to move into a way of being and relating that they know in their hearts is possible. Experience has shown me that a trusted relationship is medicine that catalyzes our ability to meet our pain, question our beliefs, refine our visions, celebrate our joy—all of which are part of becoming ourselves. Within many frames of psychology, I have seen how easy it can be to become locked into identity structures that reinforce limitation. Energy wants to move. Experiences want to be known. Visions want to be honed. These intensifying days call to us whispering- time to transform.

You don't have to go this alone! I approach my clients with authenticity, non-judgement, and compassion. The issues that I would be honored to support you with include: depression; anxiety; working through trauma; grief/loss; major life transitions; self-discovery; exploring/cultivating creativity; exploring cultural identities; creating satisfying relationships; and understanding and resolving conflicts in family relationships. I integrate various theories and approaches based on your particular goals. Our work together can be exploratory or action oriented: focusing on the past, the present or the future; long or short term.

Heartstrings Counseling was established as a Non-Profit Corporation in 2013. Our counselors are highly trained and supervised, with compassionate hearts, whose desire is to walk alongside you in your life-journey on a path to more peace, love, joy and hope We would love to talk further with you about our services. Call us today to schedule an appointment.

I offer both therapeutic and diagnostic services. In therapy, clients who benefit most are motivated to work toward change. They seek to improve their moods and progress toward their goals, whether related to relationships, careers, or health. I’m committed to a practice centered around empathy, caring, and acceptance. I believe establishing deep connections with clients leads to helping them achieve their goals. I also supervise an unlicensed psychologist who specializes in working with children and adolescents. She helps them improve family and peer interactions, handle emotional challenges, and master self-control.

Hello and welcome! As a licensed Marriage and Family Psychotherapist I provide an empathetic and trusting space to share your concerns. Working together we will uncover blocks to peace and contentment, identify and build upon strengths, alleviate symptoms, build more satisfying relationships and move towards bringing balance to your life. I have worked in community mental health for adults, schools and mental health clinics for children, adolescents and their families and have treated a wide range of disorders including-grief and loss, depression, anxiety, addiction, trauma, divorce, relational issues, child behavior issues and parenting.

Whether you are seeking counseling services for yourself, your child or your family, please know that there is hope. Choosing this step in your life takes courage and strength. I will support and guide you to reach your goals. I am semi-retired, so I can only accept a few clients at a time. I offer telehealth exclusively through ZOOM, which allows us to work together in the comfort of your home or office. I am licensed in both Utah and California.