Online Therapy for Adults experiencing overwhelm due to relationship issues, people-pleasing tendencies, intense emotional responses, or planned or unforeseen change in San Francisco, Bay Area and Los Angeles, CA.

Are you experiencing anxiety or depression but are not entirely sure where it is stemming from? Or, maybe you have but it persists? I draw upon various orientations that cultivates inner trust to better understand what the anxiety or depression is saying. It is shown that when we befriend our emotional states we have better outcomes. This is based on Internal Family Systems (IFS), Mindfulness, and Self-Compassion orientations.

Are relationships causing you distress, preventing you from connecting? Or maybe you are not feeling emotionally safe in your relationships? Are you the giver in relationships and have a difficult time receiving? Or perhaps you are not entirely sure how to communicate effectively with your partner, friend, or family member? First, we collaborate to assess the dynamic, what the triggers are, and how to assert your truth or needs in a kind, non-defensive, and clear way.

Are you wanting to create a new narrative to your personal reality? Do you want to know how to distinguish between your internal experience and the experience of another? Many failed attempts of trying to ‘fit in’ or ‘fix, rescue,’ often causes us to give our power away and reach for external validation. This can feel exhausting. You will learn how to tend to yourself versus sacrificing yourself for another.

My belief is that we all have experienced some sort of trauma whether it is chronic or acute. The vicious cycle of repeating the same experience over and over again, whether in the mind or physically, is exhausting, not to mention harmful. Through a trauma-informed approach, we take it slow to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, our calm state, to change the chemistry in our mind and body. Learning self-regulating techniques is helpful to integrate the experience through the use of the body, somatic therapy, as well as other trauma-informed approaches that I am trained in including EMDR and the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM).

Are you sensitive, overwhelmed, fatigued, or have you been called ‘too sensitive’ or ‘shy?’ Do you feel overwhelmed by other people’s emotional states or life in general? This can involve feeling the emotions of other people or noticing physical sensations in the body. I am here to support you to build healthy boundaries while cultivating your intuition so that you can trust and believe in yourself and view your sensitivity as a gift.

Are you going through a major life change, and want some guidance on how to navigate the abrupt shifts? Do you want more out of life? Or maybe you are in a painful relationship or setting and you don’t know how to get out? Perhaps you were impacted by a loss. You don’t have to go through this change on your own, I am here to guide you through this process.

Through my own journey that encompassed a lot of pain, by facing my own suffering head on utilizing mindfulness-based practices, I discovered so much about myself. What I learned through a committed meditation practice, was life changing. I learned to witness my inner life with less judgement and more compassion and develop a more secure relationship with myself so that I could tolerate and tend to my own pain. Although meditation is thought to be a practice of clearing our minds, I will give you tools and skills to walk you through a process of integrating different states of being so that you can have more balance, compassion, coherence, and gratitude.

If you are an American citizen or were born in the U.S. and are living abroad within Europe, I may be able to support you depending on which country that you are based. I am registered with two U.K. counselling associations and I am happy to explore working with you. I have firsthand experiencing living abroad and understand the difficulties that this can pose.