Therapist Directory

As a person of color raised in the U.S. and of immigrant parents from Mexico, it has been a healing journey for me to process the impact of social-cultural trauma and break the cycles of intergenerational trauma. I am here to help you address issues pertaining to your past, present, and future self to heal and begin to take the steps in breaking negative generational cycles.

The pace and complexity of life these days is making it harder and harder to connect to how we are really feeling, and to understand why we are feeling that way. It feels like, too often, we are urged to ignore or push away key parts of ourselves in order to be or do what seems to be required of us.

In response to this, the therapy I provide is an opportunity to slow down, to get clear about what we each need in order to feel okay (or to even just remember the ways that we actually already are okay, in the midst of it all), and to move into steadier and healthier versions of ourselves. I start from wherever and whoever you are, and build a style of working together that makes room for as many parts of you as possible.

I use a diverse tool belt of approaches: Internal Family Systems/Parts Work, Experiential and Creative Therapies, Somatic Awareness and Mindfulness, and Narrative Therapy. Most importantly though, I use the tool of being truly with you: I will be right there listening, collaborating, guiding, nudging, and offering ideas and reflections for your process of coming back to yourself, reconnecting to who you are and what you know, healing from trauma and struggle, and creating new self-knowledge, coping skills, and paths forward.

Our relationships with ourselves can be complicated. Together, let’s better understand how your life circumstances have gotten you to where you are today. What is working for you? What is not working for you? How is your relationship with yourself affecting your relationships with others?

The beauty of therapy is that, despite your level of familiarity with psychology, your entry point is exactly where you need to be. Doing deep personal work is accessible to everyone, as long as you are willing to do it. My role as a therapist is to help you find that access point, no matter how new or experienced you are to the process of self-discovery.

Step into a space where healing and growth intertwine. At my therapeutic practice, I extend a warm invitation to individuals, couples, and families of all kinds. With a foundation in mindfulness, I guide our journey with a deep focus on the relationships we build and the process we embark upon together.

Your journey is uniquely yours, and I am here to support you every step of the way. Through our work together, my aim is not only to help you navigate through challenges but to empower you to thrive. Together, we will cultivate resilience, heal from past wounds, and pave the way for a future of fulfillment and authenticity.

In this sacred space of exploration and discovery, my goal is for you to discover the boundless potential within yourself. You are your greatest asset, and I am here to walk alongside you as you navigate the twists and turns of life's journey. Let's embark on this adventure together, embracing the beauty and unpredictability of the path ahead.

I specialize in working with people who struggle with complex trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Complex trauma is often the result of growing up with a caregiver who was abusive, neglectful, and/or suffered from mental illness or addiction. Complex trauma can also be a result of growing up in an environment where there was poverty, frequent incarceration, violence, and oppression. Symptoms of complex trauma include anxiety, depression, difficulty with relationships, chronic pessimism, fear of success, and a sense of feeling broken or that something is wrong with you.

I am trained in various techniques that specifically work with trauma and I work with an anti-oppression perspective. I have a diverse caseload and include you and your family’s particular socio-political-historical context when considering the impact of intergenerational trauma. You do not have to identify with, or have suffered from, complex trauma to contact me. I also work with attachment and relationship issues, perfectionism, giftedness, gender and masculinity, and issues around immigration, acculturation, and belonging.

My role as a psychotherapist is to help clients acknowledge and harness their innate strengths, enabling them to attain and sustain the well-being they are searching for. What holds us back? What keeps us returning to habitual patterns that limit us? How can we heal from past experiences or learn to cope with current life challenges? Together we will examine your life from many vantage points, with compassion and curiosity. By expanding how you view yourself, relate to others, and respond to difficult circumstances, new possibilities will emerge.

My areas of expertise include:
• Cultivating self-compassion to combat shame, self-criticism, and threats to self worth
• Advocating for the unique issues LGBTQ individuals face
• Understanding and coping with depression and anxiety
• Examining the causes and harmful cycles of addiction and codependency
• Exploring intimacy concerns for individuals and couples
• Supporting clients coping with grief and loss
• Building resilience while navigating life transitions
• Embracing cross-cultural differences and attachment patterns in couples
• Working with childhood trauma

I invite you to embark on a journey to explore the ways your relational history, multiple identities, past and current relationships, and struggles weave together and impact the way you interact with the world around you. It would be an honor to travel alongside you. I will support you as you find what it means to show up authentically in all aspects of your life. I will be there with warmth, compassion, some guidance, a bit of humor, and a lot of curiosity.

Like all things in the natural world, death feeds new life: your wounds, traumas, and losses can be the compost to nourish a more vibrant life to come. You may be struggling with grief, loneliness, fear about the future, confusion about who you are and what you want out of life. These challenges are invitations to awaken into a more openhearted, fulfilling, and purposeful human existence. I am a guide who has traveled these dark and mysterious landscapes and feel called to support you in your unique becoming.

My particular area of passion and interest is the Heroine’s Journey to the Underworld. What is that, you may ask? Unlike the masculine Hero’s Journey (aka Joseph Campbell) which is a masculine quest up and out into the wild unknown with the mission to conquer and emerge victorious on the earthly plane, the Heroine’s journey is a descent inwards and downwards into the often terrifying and mysterious Underworld. It’s a call and an invitation to know, reclaim, and honor feminine power and wisdom. It requires the sacrifice and transmutation of something, often in the form of a comfortable identity that prevents a more whole person from emerging. Once the treasure is found below, the Heroine can re-emerge up to earthly plane with a newfound power and authentic sense of self.

An Underworld journey may manifest in the form of depression, grief, numbness, a collapse in your life as you know it. Sometimes it’s initiated by a dramatic life change like a personal illness, new motherhood, the loss of an important relationship or divorce. Other times, it seems as if your symptoms came from nowhere.

In our work together, I will serve as your guide to the Underworld. It’s terrain that I know well and for which I hold immense respect and reverence.

Being a human being is complicated, complex, and can sometimes be overwhelming. I can meet you where you are, and together identify where you would like to go, and what parts of yourself you would like to call forward. I can help you explore your inner world, and help you connect your internal experiences to your external experiences. I work well with depression, anxiety, developmental trauma, inner-dynamics, and relational dynamics. I hold space for intersectional identities. You don' t have to be one thing, or move through the world in just one way. Together we can remember your inner richness, and bring those forward.

I am an inclusive, queer person of color who feels comfortable working with adults, couples, and children from all different backgrounds. If you are interested, please contact me for a free 20 minute consultation. Thank you!

Are you tired of feeling stuck…with relationships, your job, and life in general? You’ve done all the things you were “supposed” to do and you still feel like something is missing? Maybe you’re tired of always second guessing yourself, criticizing yourself every time you mess up, and worrying about what others think of you. At this point, maybe it’s hard to even remember a time you didn’t feel like this. I’m here to tell you that it is possible to feel better. It is possible to feel more empowered in your life, more connected in your relationships. It is possible to quiet your inner critic, to be a better friend to yourself so that you can live the more joyful life you deserve. I can help you get there.

I work with teens, adults, and couples in support of their exploration of a wide range of issues and challenges. Some areas of focus that I work with are:

□ Anxiety
□ Grief and loss
□ Trauma
□ Chronic illness or medical diagnoses
□ Life transitions
□ Relationship challenges
□ Communication and boundary setting
□ Co-Dependence
□ Identity exploration (sexuality, gender identity, racial identity, etc.)
□ Whiteness / Participation in systems of oppression

In my office, you will find a safe and comfortable space where curiosity and compassion guide us towards your self-discovery and healing. Depending on your specific needs, we will shape our time together using creativity and what you already know about yourself. I respect your self-knowing and prioritize your pace and agency to guide our therapeutic dynamic and movement towards positive change.

Together we can increase your tolerance of anxiety, anger, and other overwhelming emotions and create more choices for you to feel empowered rather than stuck or reactionary. We can monitor and learn from your stress responses (fight, flight, freeze, etc.) in order to improve your communication with others, self-care, and general functioning. I can also guide you towards more self-compassion and wisdom, rooted in the body, where you can revisit and recharge when you need it.

Through our work, you’ll heal and move toward inner strength and wholeness by reclaiming disowned parts of yourself, parts you have othered or exiled, knowingly or not. We will make room for your multi-dimensionality and the intricate complexities within you. I believe in the work we can do to make peace possible for you.

My practice is open to all and I most enjoy working with queer, neurodivergent, and creative individuals in adolescence, emerging adulthood, and adulthood. The therapy I provide is particularly helpful for individuals managing the impacts of burnout, stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, complex relationships, and challenges around identity and I am committed to creating a supportive space for you to make sense of life experiences and transitions.

I believe a compassionate witness can allow you to be with all your parts, especially the parts you have had to reject to survive. The right therapeutic relationship can serve as a powerful guide in cultivating intentional relationship to self, others, and your communities deepening an overall sense of connection and belonging. In this process, I strive to offer care that is authentic and affirming, leading with a trauma-informed, non-pathologizing, and collaborative approach.

Together we can examine old narratives, re-humanize life experiences, identify limiting patterns, and create new pathways. I love lifting up your own wisdom and honoring ways of being that already work. In session I am warm and direct, allowing space for reflection, creativity, curiosity, slowness, real-life strategies, embodiment, humor, and joy.

I sincerely believe you are the expert in what feels right and true to yourself. My role, as I see it, is to be by your side as you examine parts of yourself that are difficult to face alone. I shine a warm light—respectfully and at your pace—on experiences, emotions, and beliefs that have yet to be examined. I seek to deepen the understanding of emotional and relational pain and to expand upon sources of strength, expression, connection, and beauty.

Working together as a team, we can help you reclaim a life with less anxiety, more clarity about your stuck places, deeper security in your relationships, stronger connection to your real needs and desires, and more space for pleasure and vibrancy. Let's get you feeling more free.

I support clients in moving through big life transitions, grieving death and loss of many kinds, healing trauma of many kinds, managing anxiety, and navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and/or parenthood.

No matter where you are on your journey, please feel welcome to reach out.

Maybe you’ve seen other people begin therapy and wondered what it’s about. Perhaps you feel stagnant with some part of your life or relationships or stuck on how to make sense of certain emotions. Given the state of the world right now, it’s not uncommon to feel isolated and that your challenges carry extra weight. Many of us are experiencing uncertainty about the future and how to cope. It’s not hard to see why more people than ever are investing in themselves and finding a therapist to support their growth.

As someone who’s been through the process of selecting a therapist, I know that finding the right person can seem an exhausting task. There are a lot of questions regarding availability, payment, and fit. I encourage you to contact me for a 15-minute free phone consultation so that you can get a sense of who I am. We’ll discuss how I might be able to help and ensure you’ve got the information you need to decide if you’d like to move forward.

I offer support that is consistent, genuine, collaborative, and direct. I create a space and experience that tailors to your individual needs and preferences. Instead of sticking to a template, we’ll work together to figure out what helps you to feel most comfortable expressing yourself. Together, we’ll explore and deepen your awareness of your whole self—which could mean welcoming back parts of you that you feel disconnected from, discovering new thoughts or ideas, or working with feelings that don’t seem to fit easily in your day-to-day life.

As a result, you’ll start to better understand what factors drive your relationships and your behaviors. You’ll tune into the things that make you unique: your strengths, your values, your intuition, and your emotions. With new perspectives and tools, you’ll prepare to move forward in areas of your life with greater confidence.

Everyone encounters feelings of dissatisfaction and confusion in their lives, questioning their choices, their direction, or even who they are at the core. I provide a calm, nonjudgmental space for you to share the things that trouble you, especially the things that are hard to share or the parts of you that you may not feel good about. I work to help you see how what you feel makes sense, making connections to past experiences, and coming to new self-understanding and acceptance.

I'm here to help you understand and accept yourself, make sense of difficult experiences, and find more of what makes you truly happy. This might mean working through unprocessed trauma that is holding you back or examining your patterns in relationships. Whatever path our work takes, I believe self-knowing and self-compassion are at its core. Who are you, what is hurting inside you, and what do you need to feel whole? Let’s get curious and find out together.

I'm a male mental health therapist for men in California.

I am a somatic therapist who focuses on relational, attachment, and childhood trauma issues. I work with individuals and couples to address relationship ambivalence, codependence, anxiety, depression, major life transition, PTSD and trauma, shame and low self-esteem, and poor communication and conflict, among other issues. I help you build awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations, allowing you to develop greater insight and uncover new choices.

Therapy is about awareness- of your thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations, of the dynamics within your relationships, and the impacts of your environment. Increasing your present-moment awareness helps you gain clarity about your needs, what you want out of life, and what stands in your way. I can teach you to track these complex inner processes while encouraging re-alignment with your authentic self, and providing tools to manage symptoms such as fight-flight-freeze-fawn responses.

I work with those who experience confusion about their emotions and where they come from; who struggle to assert themselves; feel a pervasive sense of shame, guilt, or inadequacy; lack meaningful relationships or life activities; or who have been victimized in abusive relationships. In terms of diagnoses, this encompasses anxiety, depression, codependency, developmental trauma and C-PTSD. Our work can help you feel more solid, happier, and more at peace with who you are.

Do you have a voice in your head constantly telling you that you aren't good enough? Do you feel like you're hiding your true self? Are you struggling with burnout and lack of purpose? Is your anxiety overwhelming? Are you longing to change but don't know how? Therapy can help! I am passionate about supporting clients in lessening anxiety, improving self-esteem, establishing boundaries, deepening communication in relationships, and identifying purpose and values to live a more authentic life. We might be a good fit to work together if you are struggling with anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, and/or relationship difficulty.

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are.” Maya Angelou

If you are longing for a safe place to be and become the unique person that you are, a reliable other to help you see the gifts you have been given, explore ways to connect those gifts and values, and chart your path forward, I can help.

“The body is not all there is, but it is the only thing we can get our hands on” - Don Hanlon Johnson

Bodies have great wisdom. Cultivation of capacity for bodily awareness provides access to that wisdom to harness it for healing. I offer a safe and curious space to explore which patterns and behaviors have protected you as well as the ones that no longer serve you, so we can work to release or repurpose them. We will work together to learn about any activation in your body and we will get curious about what works to regulate it.

I truly believe that people are doing the best they can with whatever unique resources they have. My aim is to help you identify and build more resources, in order to feel more free - free to be more yourself, free to feel and express your vitality, and free to choose the life you want.

I offer trauma-informed psychotherapy to adults across the lifespan. With warmth, curiosity, and practicality, I will collaborate with you in our sessions to discover what healing and change look like for you.

I believe that you're the expert of your own experience and everyone has the capacity to grow, heal, and create meaningful change in their lives. A safe, trusting, and supportive therapeutic relationship allows for a dedicated space to explore, carefully unpack, and gain more tools to navigate whatever it is that brought you to therapy.

Whether it's learning how to better manage anxiety, move through a big transition, recover from a traumatic event, navigate the loss or death of a loved one, or adjust to a new or ongoing disability or medical condition, I will partner with you along your journey. Together, we can figure out the stuck places, help you identify what you want and need, and chart your path forward.

If you’re here, I imagine you are considering finding a journey partner. I’m happy to start this
conversation with you and to support you along the way.

My practice is open to all and I have experience supporting clients in a variety of circumstances, such as: Depression and loss, Anxieties, identity and role transition, professional transitions, acute and chronic stress, grief, overall longing for meaning, relationship challenges, immigration.

Allow me to help you carry the stress of life. We’ll create a space for you to clear your mind, feel into the present moment and feel the feelings that may have built up. Together, we’ll tend to parts of you that usually go unseen.

My energy is relaxed, warm, engaged, and curious. I like to use metaphors and visuals to make insights more memorable. I believe therapy should always be non-judgemental, trauma-informed, and consensual.

Here are some of the things we might work with in our therapy sessions:
● Getting to know different ‘parts’ of yourself, even those that have been kept in the shadows
● Feeling support to make challenging life decisions
● Recovering from a traumatic experience
● Understanding the family system you’re a part of more deeply and honestly
● Reclaiming your strengths
● Learning to cope in a healthier way
● Connecting to what you want in relationships and creating boundaries that support you

Finding the right therapist can be a tricky task! Research shows the best predictor of successful therapy is the solidness of the relationship between the therapist and the client - so “fit” is important! I recommend reaching out to me for a free phone (or Zoom) consultation so that we can connect human-to-human. Often, that’s a good way to see if the vibe feels right to you. We can discuss what you want to work on, how I can help you, and the logistics of scheduling, fee, payment, etc. I’m here to get the information you need and assist in the process of finding the right therapist.

I will partner with you in addressing your concerns in a safe, supportive, and confidential space. I blend psychodynamic therapy with holistic tools for grounding the heart and mind, which means we will make sense of the past so that a way forward feels clearer and more motivating, all the while cultivating steps to start feeling better now. My practice is rooted in the belief that all people have the ability to shift gears when they want to feel change. It sometimes requires openness, and that isn't easy. I work with the following goals in mind: to help you gain more clarity, to support you in moving past unhelpful beliefs, and to guide you along the path of feeling more at home in yourself.

In my couples work, I integrate all of these themes into the process with two primary objectives: increasing understanding of one another and reducing blame cycles. For those who are new parents, we set intergenerational repair into motion by looking at each partner's past family challenges and explore what they mean to you both now, bringing more awareness to the selves and one another. The beauty of couples therapy is how much healing work can happen on the individual level, thus passing down new patterns to the next generation.

My name is Nicolas. I am a somatic therapist working with individuals and couples. In my practice, I see people who stopped believing in therapy, therapists as well as people new to the idea of getting mental help.

I first wanted to study psychotherapy back when I was 16. On one hand, I have always been fascinated by the human psyche, on the other, I was crippled by anxiety, shame, low self esteem, and difficulty to concentrate. It affected every single aspect of my life. While that isn’t the ideal ground for a great teen experience, it turns out it makes for a solid background to become a therapist!

I know what it feels like to fall in the dark; what loneliness, even amongst friends and family, is like. I know how difficult it can be to reach out for help. I also know the sweet and frightening experience of actually receiving the help we so deeply need. Most importantly, I know that no matter what we have been through and how distressed we may be, it is possible to get better.

This is what I am aiming to offer to every single client coming through my door. If I assess that I can't give it to you, I will commit to helping you find someone who can.

However big or small your level of distress, whether your mind thinks you deserve help or says you don't, I am here to tell you: reaching out to get help, sharing whatever burden is weighing on you, is already a transformative action towards health.

In healing relational wounding and establishing greater ease in our bodies we can become better able to form and grow meaningful connections and achieve personal and professional goals. I work with various struggles of mind, thought, behavior, and experiences of self and others. Specialized training in nervous system regulation enables me the ability to aid trauma survivors in uncovering missed experiences and process traumatic happenings. With couples managing trauma, I guide each individual towards gaining a clear understanding of dynamics at play in the relationship(s); I help couples to communicate without feeling triggered so they can understand one another, co-regulate and find ease and fulfillment in their relationship.

You may be looking for help healing from a troubled past, facing fears and uncertainty about the future, or coping with the everyday challenges of your present life, work, and relationships. Help can take many forms. Support from family and friends, your faith, nature, pets, actions you take to advocate for your health and wellbeing, and encounters with healing places or people can change your life and shift your perspective. Help can also come through the authentic relationship you develop with a therapist who is a reasonably right fit for you.

My somatic psychotherapy practice is collaborative and trauma-informed. I work with adults and couples who want more satisfying, authentic relationships with themselves and others. I provide support dealing with interpersonal and emotional challenges, managing stress and anxiety responses, and facing the intensity of change, loss, and life's uncertainty.

I engage with you as a compassionate, therapeutic companion, work with you to lift burdens of past traumas, and transform internal patterns that interfere with being present in your life and relationships. I integrate training in trauma and touch into my psychotherapy practice and want to help you live in more accordance with what really matters to you.

Therapy is for increasing self-understanding. With that, we might become more skillful in relationship, get out of our own way and accomplish goals, or be more meaningfully engaged with life. We can better trust ourselves to navigate difficult situations with courage and confidence.

Good therapy is a mutually curious, open endeavor. I’ll make suggestions to challenge you to be honest with yourself or think in a novel way. You can expect me to answer questions about my life or give you a straight answer when you ask for advice.

Thank you for taking the first steps towards making a change in your life! I know that it can be hard to ask for help. My compassionate, warm style will help you to feel at ease in therapy. My creativity as a therapist, alongside my wide range of clinical experience, will help to make your
experience in therapy both gentle and effective. My goal is to help you feel better quickly. After you’re feeling more at ease and calm, we can explore more opportunities for deep healing as they arise and at the pace that you choose. Our sessions will focus on what’s most important to you. I will tailor treatment so that it can best suit your needs.

I am a trauma-informed, somatic psychotherapist offering in-person sessions in San Francisco and telehealth sessions to clients throughout California.

I strive to create a space rooted in trust, where you will feel safe to slow down and explore all parts of yourself, your strengths, and your challenges. As you share what troubles you, I will follow your lead with curiosity and compassion. Together, we will seek to understand why things are as they are so that you can know yourself more fully. This understanding is the beginning of acceptance, healing, and change.

Liberating people of color & couples from cultural, sexual, & religious trauma through
trauma informed approaches, decolonized cultural practices, and art & dance
movement therapies. You CAN reclaim your multicultural identities, womanhood, body,
sexuality, & spirituality, so that you can reclaim your power and live your life. What
blocks you from stepping into your power? I will listen to you:

● “My cultural upbringing & painful past experiences hold me back…I just want to
feel safe enough to be myself”
● “I want to make my immigrant parents proud but I also want to live my life &
dreams…am I worthy of love?”
● “It feels like I’m a bridge between multiple lands & cultures but belong to
neither…I feel alone and want my community.”
● ”Sex, sensuality, my body, & intimacy bring me discomfort & shame…but I want
to feel connected to my body & sexuality.”
● “ My toxic partners & extremist religions always told me I was wrong…now I
always feel like I’m doing something wrong and want to trust myself more.”
● “Being a woman with fluctuating cycles & hormones in a hustle work culture is
overwhelming …I just want to slow down & feel more feminine.”

I work with clients to help them better understand how their childhood impacts them today and work with them to heal their relational wounding. Did you grow up in a chaotic household? Maybe one or more of your caregivers/parents suffered from addiction, abuse, mental illness, illness, or were absent, so you stepped up and became the responsible one.

Being parentified from a young age can lead to many different behavioral outcomes, amongst them are: perfectionism, people-pleasing, codependency, poor boundaries, low self-worth, difficulty identifying or asking for one's needs, and many more possibilities.

Everyday is Halloween for your beloved dark teen. She’s weird and quiet and you love it but you can see she’s lonely even if she won’t admit it.

To say she’s mastered the art of the nonconformist teenager is an understatement. And honestly, you couldn’t be prouder. You know a thing or two about marching to the beat of your own drum. And while she’s happiest at home with her bearded dragon, you long for her to feel confident in exploring new friendships. You know she's been burned in the past, but you want her to start giving new people and experiences a chance. You understand her discernment, but it's time to start letting people in.

Misfits need friends too. You think she's too quick to push people away. She knows that it's a form of protection, and the reason is way more complicated. You think finding a therapist for her will be impossible (she's not a big fan of authority). She knows she's highly suspicious of authority, but even more skeptical that anyone will ever really understand her (or wants to).

Using her innate strengths, we'll explore further under the surface to understand her why. Therapy with me has no hidden agenda; it is an invitation. Using talk, art, and dreamwork, we explore what usually stays hidden or avoided. We draw awareness to defensive structures and protective patterns to uncover a new way of relating.

Together, we explore both the conscious and unconscious realms, leading to a deeper understanding of who she is and how she wants to be in this world. Let's find the real reasons behind her resistance to connection. Schedule a consultation today.

The heart of my practice, and my passion, is in helping clients resource, reprocess and resolve their trauma so that they can go on to live lives of intention, connection, vitality, hope and meaning.

Do the “shoulds” dictate your every move? Are you a “people pleaser” putting the needs and wants of others before your own? Do you constantly take care of others at the expense of yourself? Do you frequently second guess or doubt yourself? Do you silence your voice?

People who feel an intense need to “live up to” outside expectations, those who frequently find themselves in a “helper” role, or folks that had the experience of being parentified as a child tend to ignore their own needs and wants while trying to meet the expectations of others. Doing this may meet some immediate relational needs and momentarily keep the waters calm in your life but this is often short lived and rarely provides a sense of wholeness, contentment or accomplishment. Ignoring your needs, wants, and values means you are living out of alignment with yourself and this leads to feelings of loss, discontent, anxiety, low self-esteem, disconnection, emptiness, regret, resentment, or grief. If you are tired of “taking the backseat” in life and have a sense that there is a more fulfilling way to live, I can help. Let's find ways for you to live more in alignment with who you truly are so you can experience relief and feel more confident, grounded and fulfilled.

I believe (and research supports) that the best predictor of successful therapy is the quality of the working relationship between the therapist and the client. Like any relationship, much of that bond is based on a hard to pin down sense of fit. Finding this fit isn’t always easy, and I encourage any potential client to shop around a bit before selecting a therapist. Should you choose to work with me, I will honor the weight of that choice and endeavor to foster a space where your whole self feels welcome.

I support individuals who are exploring a wide variety of challenges and goals. Some areas of focus in my practice include:

*Anxiety
*Depression
*Grief and Loss
*Chronic Pain and Illness
*Major Life Transitions
*Creativity and Creative Blocks
*Relationship and Communication Challenges
*Disordered Eating and Challenging Relationships with Body/Food/Movement
*Substance and Process Addictions
*Seeking One’s Voice in Life and Relationships
*Sexuality and Gender Exploration and/or Challenges
*Integrating Expanded State Experiences (psychedelics)

I received a Master’s in Counseling from Southwestern College, focusing on transpersonal and holistic counseling. During my time throughout graduate school, I found a passion for somatic-centered therapies. In my own healing journey, I have found these practices to be transformative and shift consciousness through the subtle body. I continue to expand my own experience and trainings with somatic therapy and creative arts integration. The support of self-expression creates movement and allows us to come into the wholeness of our unique and authentic selves.
I enjoy working with clients of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, gender identities, sexualities, and other intersectional identities. I have worked most with individuals and groups and am excited to work with couples and families as well.

Are you feeling lost, stuck, or unsure of what to do? Do you feel out of control? Do you feel like something is holding you back or blocking you from feeling content and fulfilled?

Life can feel crazy, we can feel crazy ourselves, but you don't have to navigate it alone.

I believe we as humans are meant to live in communities where we support and accept one another, balanced with skills to support and accept ourselves - yet traumatic experiences, major life changes, mood disorders, and the structure of our societies (just to name a few things!) often keep us from feeling connected, heard, and healed.

As a therapist, I have particular experience with complex trauma, dissociation, depression, anxiety, neurodivergence, and religious trauma. After all, I've been there myself. Everyone's journey is different, yet I know from experience how hard, disorienting, and difficult it can be. Still, I believe life can be different when we travel together instead of carrying our burdens and pain alone.

Are you struggling to connect to your partner or important people in your life? Would you like to have deeper, more fulfilling relationships? Maybe you and your partner feel like you are trying to connect and just keep missing each other? Whether you come to therapy on your own or as part of a relationship, I can help you discover deeper connection and more fulfilling bonds.

I am a trauma-informed, sex-positive psychotherapist offering telehealth sessions to clients in California. My practice is affirming and supportive for gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity (GSRD). With a nurturing and non-judgmental approach, I help individuals and relationships explore their desires, overcome obstacles, and create fulfilling sexual and relational lives.

I aim to provide a grounded and warm space for you to explore the parts of you that are challenging to sit with on your own. My services are inclusive and designed for individuals and relationships from early adulthood to later life. In individual therapy, I address concerns such as anxiety, mood disorders, sexual trauma, sexual orientation, gender expression, relationship orientation, religious trauma, and spiritual existentialism. In relationship therapy, I address communication challenges, sexuality concerns, conflict-resolution, and relationship transitions. And if what troubles you is not explicitly listed here, I might still be able to work with you. The human condition is expansive.

I know it can be really challenging to know if a therapist will be a good match just by reading a directory bio, so please feel free to reach out and book a free consultation call with me to get a better sense of the work I offer and how I might support your healing journey. And if it seems like we are not a good fit, I will provide you with guidance on other therapists and modalities that might meet what you are seeking.

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung

If you’ve found yourself here, you’re likely experiencing a reaction, of your own, to the experience of relating with another. Relating, connecting and loving - whether romantic, platonic, or familial - are imperative to human nature and can sometimes be extremely difficult. I work with couples, individuals and families to ease the tension that can arise from challenges of relating.

I’m glad you’ve taken the step to get support as you navigate what can often feel like uncertain territory. In my therapy practice, I use a direct, warm, and exploratory approach to help couples understand their emotional needs, and the ways in which those drive the ways we relate to one-another. I work with individuals and couples of all sexualities and formations who are exploring:
- How to improving communication, especially during conflict
- Decreasing conflict and promoting mutual understanding and respect
- Anger management and emotional awareness
- Increasing intimacy, whether physical or emotional
- Exploring possibilities for the future commitment including marriage & children
- Navigating polyamory or ethical non-monogamy

By slowing down our automatic processes in conflict with one-another we answer the question - what is actually happening here? What do I need, and how can I convey that to my partner? And how can I better hear my partners needs and emotions? When we identify unnamed needs and emotions and share them with our loved ones, intimacy increases and relationships strengthen.

Regardless of the reason why you seek therapy, and whether you are coming with a partner, a family member or individually, I see what we do in the room as a process of illuminating and discovering things that are easy to miss if we don’t slow down. By focusing on a thought or feeling with curiosity and gentleness, you begin on a path towards understanding your needs and expressing yourself authentically. Through this, you begin to feel the full spectrum of emotions, to have meaningful and fulfilling relationships and to become the person and partner you want to be. At the heart of this, I believe, is the cultivation and nourishment of a wise self.

Please note that I am currently on parental leave until January 2025. I will be unable to respond to new inquiries until then.

I became a therapist because I love to listen to people's stories. By listening deeply and allowing space for curiosity, I can support you in connecting the dots in your patterns and then we can spend time exploring them together. If you're dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, or unresolved trauma, I'm here to move through those with you. I use an integrated approach, including but not limited to the following modalities:

• Brainspotting
• Person-centered Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Mindfulness

I'll cater my approach to you as an individual, based on your personality, preferences, neurotype, and any number of other factors. You're in the driver's seat, but I'd be honored to be your co-pilot!

I am located in San Diego and offering teletherapy throughout California.

Counseling, to me, is a collaborative space where clients are empowered to explore, find their own path, and work towards their goals. I’m a queer, neurodiverse counselor, and while I am especially passionate about discussing gender, sexuality, and neurodiversity with clients, I enjoy working on a variety of concerns with clients of any identity or experience. I see one of the main goals of therapy to be a concept I learned from DBT, which is to build a life worth living. My own experiences with therapy helped me see that a life worth living is possible, and supported me in building a life worth living for myself. As a therapist, I strive to support clients in building their own versions of a life worth living.

As a psychotherapist, it is my desire to help you live your life to the fullest and healthiest potential. I believe attending to one’s mental health is a central step in leading the “successful life” most people desire. I want my clients to know there is hope for positive change and that they do not have to be stuck in unhealthy patterns or states of mind.

When a person desires to attend therapy, I believe they are already on a road to healing. Whether an individual is seeking help with anxiety, depression, self-harm, anger, relationship improvement, life transitions, or various other difficulties, it is my desire to provide an empathetic ear and to treat each person with dignity. I consider it an honor to be a part of an individual’s mental wellness journey as they find their inner strength to work through whatever symptoms or problems they may be facing.

I serve as a guide for people who want to create meaningful change and live in alignment with their values.
My approach is primarily somatic(“body-based”), meaning I bring curiosity to one’s felt experience—a
fluttering in the chest or muscle tightening—as a way to get to know oneself more deeply. I offer
mindfulness-based tools for both exploring one’s felt experience as well as building skills for coping with
stress. I appreciate how practical this approach is and how quickly tangible solutions to life’s problems can
be revealed through listening to the body.

My view is that life’s triumphs and challenges are just too painful and too beautiful to bear alone. I see the role of therapist in our increasingly isolated modern society as that of witness, guide, collaborator and companion along the way. If you're looking for support with trauma, grief & loss, life transitions, self-esteem issues, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, or embodiment, or you just feel drawn to working with me, don’t hesitate to reach out. I would love to hear from you.

I help others live their truth and the life they desire. Each of us has had something stand in the way of reaching our full potential. I help my clients create meaningful changes, stronger relationships, and a greater sense of self by focusing on their strengths and using a blend of different therapeutic styles that best match the client’s individual needs and personality.

While my top professional interests are working with LGBTQIAA+ identities, depression, anxiety, and life transitions, I welcome all adults, couples, and families who are wanting an integrative and client-centered approach.

In my work with couples, I integrate traditional modalities with experiential techniques to gain a deeper understanding of what is beneath the relationship challenges. I work collaboratively with couples to interrupt and prevent conflict patterns and to strengthen the existing bond.

On the surface, you have everything under control, but behind closed doors, alcohol is your only true confidant. Except lately, the liquid in the glass can no longer muffle the whisper of discontentment.

Life has slowly reduced to a numbing cycle of waiting for a momentary escape, only to wake and repeat. You've tried to just “cut back” but always find yourself falling back into the old pattern. You checked out a few AA meetings but couldn’t see how surrendering your power would help.

Therapy, once an avenue for others, now calls to you—maybe, here, you could find what has been missing.

But the last thing you want is a therapist who would distill your complexities into a simple verdict “drinking problem.”

You need someone who sees beyond the facade and into your essence. Someone who understands that your relationship with alcohol is not a marker of weakness, but a signpost pointing towards deeper needs—a yearning for joy, intimacy, or the search for meaning.

I provide psychotherapy to teens and adults seeking a non-judgmental space to work through their painful and “messy” experiences. These might include anxiety, panic, depression, relationship issues, disordered eating, or suicidal ideation. Rather than grabbing the Clorox, I help clients explore how and why their symptoms came to be. As clients better understand themselves, they often feel profoundly relieved. From this place, we can identify new coping skills that feel useful. Ultimately, I hope to help clients make peace with “messy”, so they can feel more wholly themselves.

Our relationships can be the most fulfilling part of our lives and, in moments, they can feel challenging, especially if you haven’t had the guidance in recognizing or communicating needs in relationships. As a result, one can feel overwhelmed by the misunderstanding they experience in relationships. Some of the patterns that may show up in relationships are attracting the same person that is anxious, distant, or unable to be there for you or finding oneself in repeated arguments that are unresolved. These patterns may lead to disappointment, disconnection, and burnout of relationships.

Together we can take the time to investigate how you show up in relationships. I will support you with this process by deeply listening and by giving you my honest feedback in regard to what I see and hear. As a licensed psychotherapist, my main goal in session is to help you feel less burdened in the process of cultivating healthy relationships with yourself and others. Through our work together you can achieve improvement of relationships and improved quality of life. The journey in cultivating healthier and more fulfilling relationships can be extremely vulnerable and I am here to support you with this process. Please contact me for an initial session to get started.

Life can be hard at times and not having the right tools can be challenging. Whether you are struggling with past trauma, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, addiction, or events in your life that are emotionally draining, we can work together to figure out the best way to live your fullest life. I have a direct, honest, and compassionate style of communicating that allows us to focus on your goals in a collaborative and constructive way, but most importantly in a way that makes sense to you. Let therapy guide you in the direction you want to go.

Hi there! My practice focuses on personal growth, relationship issues, couples, dating, marriage, and new parenthood. I love helping people in their teens, 20s, and 30s move forward in their lives with wisdom and intention. My approach is friendly and easeful, but I also bring a vast array of tools from DBT to help you quell anxiety, regulate emotions, and improve your interpersonal effectiveness.

You’re not broken, though at times in life we can feel that way. Reaching out for support can be difficult, but it is the first step to feeling like life is working again. I help individuals and couples facilitate their process of living a fuller, deeper, more authentic, and balanced life through mindfulness-based and somatic psychotherapy. It’s an honor to sit with my clients and be a part of their journey.

I identify as a biracial, bicultural woman of color, born and raised in the Bay Area, and a daughter of immigrants. I encourage the exploration of past experiences and cultural and family stories in order to better love ourselves.

Therapy is a place where you can uncover any barriers that may be limiting your relationship with others and, most importantly, with yourself, in order to find your voice. When we can access and understand our inner thoughts and emotions, we become empowered to make better choices, love fully, and live lighter.

I am keen on working with clients with trauma and helping them to uncover how our bodies and minds store traumatic experiences. Exploring the influence of our past experiences and cultural and family stories on how we love and see ourselves and love and see others is a vital part of my work.

I am a compassionate, direct, and bilingual therapist who will provide you a nonjudgmental space to discover what you need and what does not serve you. My practice is influenced by psychodynamic and strength-based perspectives. I am particularly skilled in working with people who are experiencing anxiety, depression, or tackling social justice issues and who are ultimately seeking the tools for self-empowerment. I am open and excited to work with a wide range of people. I specialize in children, teens, young adults, adults, and Black, Indigenous, women of color.

Is there something you've always hesitated to say out loud, because if you did, nothing would stay the same?

Or…

Like in that serenity prayer, are you looking for the difference between what you can change and what you have to accept?

Wisdom's hard to come by in these ominous times, and serenity can be fleeting. This is your one shot here, so you may as well speak your truth. Let’s figure out what you need and what you already have, so you can accept yourself even when it’s hard, and participate fully in your own life. What you believe is your Kryptonite may also be the root of your superpower. I'd even bet on it.

Therapy with me can be talky, weepy, a laugh riot, companionable silence. It's my job to understand your world as you see it. We’ll make use of my professional training, life experience, imagination, and intellect to find new perspectives on your relationships, your past, and your present. We’ll experiment with ways for you to manage difficult emotions, feel more compassion toward yourself and others, and live with integrity and purpose.

As a queer & trans affirming, kink aware, and trauma-informed therapist I invite you to consider this: is acceptance even worth it if it means showing up inauthentically? How would your life change if you didn’t abandon parts of yourself to find belonging? What if getting lost is just part of the journey? I’ll sit with you and be a witness to your story, no matter how beautiful or horrifying. I want to hear what’s taboo, subversive and usually unspoken. I believe once you confront the fear that's holding you back you can finally figure out how to make the most of this wild and precious life.

I offer a unique therapeutic journey that recognizes grief as a transformative power, a gateway to our deepest selves. This process reveals our unspoken stories, desires, and shared humanity, often overlooked in our culture. My approach is eclectic, resonating with various therapeutic orientations to co-create a healing space tailored to you. I welcome your entire self, including the weird, wacky, unmasked, and unexplored parts, in a safe and accepting environment where you can rewrite your narrative and personal mythology.

Your story is so important, AND I will meet you where you are because this shit is hard. I am warm, compassionate, and non-judgmental.

I believe that we all have an innate wisdom about who we are, and how we are meant to be in this world. For a million different reasons you might have lost touch with this knowing and may be feeling lost, numb, disconnected, dissociated, anxious, unfulfilled, or burned out. Perhaps you have had a gradual realization that ‘this’ (no matter how good…or not) is not enough, or maybe you are in the midst of a life transition or a spiritual crisis. Or perhaps you find yourself wanting more - more fulfillment, more meaning, and more enjoyment of this one ‘wild and precious life.’ If this resonates with you, this is your sign that it is your time to claim that for yourself. This is your birthright.

I believe that personal growth and transformation happens when we are in authentic connection to ourselves, and to others. In our sessions I will use a relational approach, focusing on mind, body, and spirit. In short, we will come together as women (inclusive of anyone who self-identifies as such) have for millennia - transforming through stories and cultivating shared wisdom.

Have a particular life obstacle you’re trying to overcome? Are you hoping to heal from past events, and reclaim your authentic sense of self? As a committed, professional Associate Somatic Psychotherapist in San Francisco, your well-being and mental strength is my number one priority. Forming the connection between body and mind is the path to wholeness and healing.