Telehealth Psychotherapy for California + Illinois Residents
I welcome individuals, couples, and families of all backgrounds and identities. I specialize in helping people with trusting their intuition, building self-esteem, and creating meaningful boundaries and connections in relationships. I tend to work well with:
Caregivers (parents, healthcare workers, teachers, activists, healers… etc!)
Trauma survivors (acute, developmental, vicarious, intergenerational, etc.)
People in the LGBTQIA+ community
Young adults
Adult Children of Alcoholics + dysfunctional families
People experiencing anxiety, depression, or feelings of despair with current events
Individual Therapy
Trauma
We all have met trauma - throughout our lives we inevitably have experiences that are Too Much, Too Fast, or Too Soon for our bodies and minds to handle. Whether you experienced trauma early in life or more recently, having space to process these big experiences is vital to our health and happiness. As a somatic therapist, I am trained to treat the body and mind as an inseparable whole—one fully capable of regaining capacity for choice, aliveness, and ease. In therapy, we can re-learn over time to trust our bodies, to feel more at home in our skin, to be better equipped to process the big waves of overwhelm and disconnection that can accompany traumatic stress.
Boundaries
Many people have a hard time knowing what their boundaries are and how to express them. Did you learn at an early age to take care of others in order to feel safe and loved? Are you innately empathic? Do you find yourself in relationship with someone with complex mental health needs or addictions? I am passionate about supporting people who struggle to say “no” — the People Pleasers, the Codependents, the Parentified Children, the Perfectionists. My approach focuses on learning effective interpersonal tools alongside healing developmental wounds and building self-compassion in order to identify and assert limits, allowing you to feel more energy for the life you want to live.
Anxiety
Let’s face it: the world can be a scary place. Terrible things do happen, and we can’t always control that—but sometimes our fears seem to control us. Many of us feel profoundly worried, whether it be about a stressful job, family and social life, illness, aging, or what we see on the news. Anxious thoughts and feelings can seemingly take over our whole lives, not allowing us to rest or be present to ourselves or our loved ones. I utilize an approach that blends mindfulness and talk therapy in helping clients develop an inner sense of calm and confidence when those worried thoughts come up.
Couples + Families
Improving Communication
Relationships are so vital in our lives, and yet they can be so challenging when we feel like we aren’t speaking the same language. Maybe you and your partner keep having the same fight, finding it difficult to connect. Or maybe you are hoping to re-open communication with a family member you have been estranged from. Perhaps you are just tired of not feeling heard. In therapy, we can learn to express our true needs and desires clearly — creating opportunity for deeper, more satisfying connections with our loved ones.
Adjusting to Change
Couples and families inevitably encounter major transitions that can be difficult to navigate for everyone involved. Life is full of twists and turns, both expected and unexpected. Many people experience anxiety, depression, or identity crises during these big transitions, but they don’t have to be overwhelming or terrifying. Therapy can offer support in adjusting to new circumstances in your relationships, integrating the past, and clarifying what each person hopes for in the future.
