Psychotherapy for Individuals, Teens, Couples & Families
Based in Los Angeles and virtually throughout California
Therapy for Deep Healing, Real Growth, and Lasting Change
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Real healing begins with safety, connection, and understanding.
Healing starts with feeling safe, seen, and understood. In therapy, you’ll begin a deeper process of self-discovery, by learning about the patterns that shape your choices, exploring what’s beneath your anxiety or pain, and finding new ways to grow. Our work together will help you build healthier relationships with yourself and others, creating space for real change and emotional freedom. For those with relational trauma, we can find so much healing in real emotional intimacy and connection. Let’s get started together.
More Than Talk Therapy—A Path to Lasting Change
You’ve poured your energy into your career, your relationships, your responsibilities. You’re capable, resilient, and deeply committed—but beneath the surface, you’re craving something different. A life of true freedom. A sense of fulfillment. A deeper connection to yourself. A sense of excitement. The feeling of truly being alive and connected with the energy of the world around you.
You might feel stuck in old patterns or toxic dynamics: over-giving, people pleasing, overworking. You may be exhausted by the weight of being everything to everyone—yet feel guilty taking time for yourself. Your heart wants peace, your mind longs for clarity, and your soul is ready to be seen.
You’re striving for self-acceptance, but that inner critic keeps showing up, louder than ever. You want to feel focused and fulfilled, yet overwhelm and burnout leave you questioning your worth. In your relationships, you crave deeper connection and ease, but stress, anxiety, and people-pleasing patterns keep holding you back. You still care deeply about your career or business, but the weight of managing it all—staff, finances, expectations—has you constantly putting out fires, with little time to breathe, let alone thrive.
Transformation begins with deep connection.
Healing allows you to soften fear, deepen self-trust, and live with greater clarity and purpose.
How I work:
As a therapist, my primary goal is to help you build a sense of insight and understanding into your patterns, your history, choices and behavior. We work together to help you find a sense of empowerment and agency in your story and the future you want to build for yourself. I will provide you with direct feedback, my own observations and reflections and provide you with tools (both practical and emotional) to approach your current problems with a more authentic sense of self, choice and confidence.
How this works:
If you’re curious about working with me, please feel free to reach out to schedule a consultation. You can share a little bit about yourself if you like, or just to schedule and you can share during our call. I typically reserve 15-25 minutes for a consultation call either via phone or Zoom (I prefer Zoom so we can get a better sense of what it would be like to work together). During our consultation call, I encourage you to share your goals for therapy, what you’re currently struggling with and any questions for me about how I work, my experience and initial insights into what you’re going through.
The early stages of therapy (the first 3 or 4 sessions) are focused on gathering information about your history, any past experience with therapy, family of origin, current relationships, emotional disturbances and how you have been coping with these problems in the past. Some clients begin therapy with a clear set of goals and expectations, while others feel overwhelmed by a variety of problems and need to work collaboratively to set some clear and attainable goals.
Goals can be as clear cut as wanting to set better boundaries with a challenging parent or whether or not you want to marry your current partner, to wanting to build a better understanding of your childhood, early attachment wounds, explore parts of your unconscious desires and fears, compassionately loving shameful and hidden parts of the self, to wanting to find a deeper sense of meaning and purpose.
Our work together is really about embarking on a journey of self discovery, where we are able to get real about some of your patterns, ways you betray yourself, sell yourself short, people please, engage in unhealthy dynamics and repeat unconscious childhood behaviors that at one point kept you safe, but are no longer aiding in your current adult life.
Areas of Focus…
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Anxiety often shows up as overthinking, worry, and racing thoughts about the future or what others think. It can also be deeply physical, like a tight chest, knots in your stomach, restless energy that won’t settle. Over time, constant vigilance can feel normal, even though your body and mind rarely feel safe. Therapy can help you find calm, understand your patterns, and feel grounded again.
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Depression can feel like emptiness, fatigue, or disconnection from things that once mattered. Many people appear high-functioning while feeling numb or lost inside. In therapy, we explore the emotions beneath the heaviness and help you reconnect with meaning, motivation, and hope.
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Trauma isn’t just about what happened, like a lingering fear and tension that remain. You might feel on edge, disconnected, or stuck in repeating patterns. Therapy offers a safe space to process your experiences, regulate your body, and begin to rebuild trust in yourself and others.
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Attachment wounds form when early experiences of safety or connection were inconsistent. As adults, this can lead to anxiety in relationships or fear of closeness. Healing these wounds means learning to feel secure, connected, and worthy of love that starts with the safety of the therapeutic relationship.
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Shame is the quiet voice that says, “something is wrong with me.” It hides beneath perfectionism, self-criticism, and people-pleasing. In therapy, we work to understand where shame began and replace it with self-compassion and acceptance.
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Your inner critic developed to keep you safe from failure or rejection, but now it keeps you small. Therapy helps you understand this voice, soften its control, and build a more compassionate inner dialogue that supports growth and confidence.