Individual Therapy Can…

  • Decrease symptoms of mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression

  • Help people with anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, or disorganized attachment heal attachment wounds and move toward a more secure attachment

  • Provide a safe, culturally sensitive, and inclusive space for individuals to tell their stories and process their experiences and trauma without judgement

  • Improve self-esteem and help individuals cultivate self-love so they feel valuable not for what they do, but for who they are

  • Increase an individual’s understanding of how family of origin issues may have created patterns that lead to dissatisfaction in relationships, and teach them how to break those patterns and develop healthy boundaries

  • Increase a person’s insight into past experiences to develop more self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-forgiveness

  • Help clients reconnect with and reparent their inner child

  • Quiet the voices of shame, fear, and inappropriate guilt

  • Lead to more authentic and whole-hearted living

  • Help clients find new ways of thinking and being

  • Provide support with life transitions, difficult times, and daily stress

  • Decrease codependency and lead to more secure attachment

Common Populations I Provide Therapy For:

  • Adults seeking to understand their attachment styles, heal attachment wounds, and build healthier relationships

  • Women who use people-pleasing, perfectionism, and conflict avoidance as coping strategies for anxiety and want to understand where their anxiety and coping strategies originated, learn to set boundaries, access suppressed emotions, learn to self-soothe, and increase self-confidence and self-worth

  • Adult children of emotionally immature or narcissistic parents

  • Adult family members of people with borderline personality disorder

  • Teens struggling with anxiety, depression, or feeling like they don’t belong who want to learn to challenge unhelpful thoughts leading to painful feelings and increase self-esteem and distress tolerance

  • Parents of teens or young adults who are transitioning out of the home

  • Clients with a desire to process past trauma that is impacting their lives in the present

  • Grief and Loss

  • Life Transitions

Other Issues and Populations

  • Domestic Violence

  • Empty Nesters

  • Racial Identity

  • Parenting

My approach is depth-oriented and attachment based.

So often we unaware of what is really driving us or limiting us. Past experiences we barely remember may be shaping our behavior and interaction.

I often incorporate dreams, imagery, fairytales, and art into therapy work to help clients delve deeper into their psyche and make the unconscious conscious.

I also use inner child work as appropriate.

Together, we will journey inward and discover how your unique experiences have shaped who you have become and how you interact with the world. Through this new awareness, we will cultivate self-compassion and learn how to self-soothe. As your inner critic begins to quiet, your inner child feels safer, and your trust in yourself grows, you will likely find that it becomes easier to take healthy risks in life, lean into loving relationships, cope with anxiety and depression triggers, and make life choices that align with your goals and values allowing you to live a more whole-hearted and authentic life.

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself, just as I am, then I can change.”

- Carl Rogers

Explore therapy for anxiety, trauma, and relationships with a licensed therapist in Orange County

Disclaimer: Therapy is not guaranteed to be successful. Progress and success vary depending upon the particular problems or issues being addressed, as well as many other factors including the client’s ability and commitment to develop insight and make changes - and the fit of the client and therapist. Some modalities of treatment will be extremely effective with one client, and less effective or ineffective with another. When a therapist’s treatment approach is not effective with a particular client, it may be necessary for that client to be referred to a therapist who uses a different approach. There may be times when medication is necessary for symptom relief.