What is your style/approach to therapy?
Collaborative, Relational, Process Orientated
What would be important for someone to know about working with you?
My work is process oriented which requires active participation and a willingness and ability to engage in fluid dialogue and utilize symbolism, metaphor, and myth to access collective themes.
What do you view as a key component of the therapeutic relationship?
Trust, Safety, and Collaboration are essential components of cultivating a strong therapeutic relationship.
Specialties
Anxiety
Anxiety can mean nervousness, worry, or self-doubt. Anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that entails excessive, repeated bouts of worry, anxiety, and/or fear.
Relationship Issues
Refers relationship issues with a partner or spouse. Can include issues related to relationship distress, relationship satisfaction, communication, intimacy, etc.
Addiction
Regular involvement with a substance or activity in a compulsive, hard to control way that often has harmful consequences. Often refers to substance use, but can include compulsive behaviors such as sex, gambling, or shopping.
Life transitions
Positive and negative change can be difficult, including things like moving, breaking up, adjusting to parenthood, or changing careers. It’s normal to feel stressed, however, life transitions can inhibit people from living healthy lifestyles.
Trauma
Trauma is the result of experiencing a perceived, extremely distressful event. Although the stress threshold for each person differs, meaning that each person considers and experiences trauma differently, it is an event that tops one’s threshold. It exceeds one’s ability to cope or emotionally process. Symptoms may include shock, anxiety, confusion, hopelessness, feeling disconnected, mood swings, nightmares, and intrusive thoughts.
General Expertise
Depression
Depression often causes people to feel sad, empty, or hopeless, and can cause a lack of interest in life. It can also affect a person's thinking patterns and physical health.
Loss/Grief
Grief is a reaction to an emotionally significant loss and often comes with symptoms of depression or anxiety. These symptoms can remain intense and last for a long time after a loss, making it difficult to move forward with a healthy lifestyle.
Anger management
It's normal to experience anger at times, but for some, it becomes so frequent, intense, or difficult to control that it negatively affects their life. Anger management is a structured therapeutic approach toward reducing one’s anger to a point where more appropriate coping and/or conflict management skills are used. Beliefs and thoughts leading toward anger outbursts are explored while healthy coping and interpersonal skills are put into practice.
Attachment issues
Children that experience parents and/or guardians that are avoidant, ambivalent, or resistant from an early age, may develop attachment issues. This can manifest as difficulty forming or maintaining friendships, romantic relationships and empathetic bonds throughout life, as well as other issues.
Codependency
Involves a person sacrificing their needs to meet the needs of others. Their thoughts and actions center on a significant other, spouse, friend, or relative. Becomes an issue when relationships are unbalanced and unhealthy.
Fees
$200
First Session
$200
Family Therapy
$200
Couples Therapy
$165
Individual Therapy
Types of Therapy
Family Session
Couples Session
Individual Session
Clientele
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (25-65)
Seniors (65+)
Adolescents (13-17)
Treatment Approaches / Modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Family Systems Therapy
Jungian Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy
Training / Certifications
CBT based treatment for Trichotillomania and Skin Picking Disorder
Licensure
CA, LMFT, 105069
Education
M.A Counseling Psychology, emphasis in Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Psy.D Applied Clinical Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Work History
I offer an integrative approach to therapy grounded in psychodynamic theory, which promotes self exploration and lifelong growth. My clinical interests and areas of specialty include working with adolescents, adults, couples and families struggling with substance abuse, body focused repetitive behaviors, family and relationship conflict, trauma and anxiety. My work is focused on helping individuals to identify unhealthy patterns that may be inhibiting them from living a happy, healthy, and whole life. My goals are to support you in identifying and advocating for your needs and helping you to explore and cultivate meaning in your struggles.
Location
Paul Pl, arroyo grande, 93420, CA