What’s the most profound, insightful, or interesting thing you’ve learned as a mental health professional?
Perhaps the most profound insight I have come to realize and accept working with clients with diverse backgrounds and complex issues is that the only thing I know for sure, is that I do not know anything for sure. This insight helps me to sit with another without too quickly jumping to conclusions or judging. It helps me to keep an open mind and to foster tolerance and humility.
What is your style/approach to therapy?
I work in a collaborative and person-centered manner. Applied interventions are designed to empower clients through a strength-based focus. A primary goal is to help clients reactivate previous responses to adversity that helped them restore a sense of ease and balance in their life. I sometimes help clients to reframe their challenges to drawn attention away from self-imposed limitations towards potential present and future possibilities.
In what ways have your personal experiences influenced your work with your clients?
My past learning and experience as well as years of companioning clients in need helps me work effectively and empathetically in moments of difficulty and struggle. As a facilitator/guide who continually strives to maintain an open mind, I am able to offer, for consideration, alternative perspectives, ways of engaging challenging situations, and possible courses of action to take that lead to resolution and/or accommodation in a safe and supportive environment.
Specialties
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.
Caregiver stress & support
Caring for a friend or family member (paid or unpaid) includes emotional support, housework, help with finances, medication management, and shopping. Can be stressful, making caregivers more vulnerable to things like anxiety, isolation, and fatigue.
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.
Cancer Support
Cancer support helps to improve quality of life and strengthen coping skills in cancer patients and survivors. Goals include reducing the distress, anxiety, and depression commonly associated with cancer diagnosis as well as processing complicated feelings, like grief, that may arise from such a serious illness.
General Expertise
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.
Work Stress
Workplace issues are a common source of stress and can include interpersonal conflict, communication problems, gossip, harassment, discrimination, low motivation and job satisfaction, performance issues, and poor job fit.
Relationship Issues
Refers relationship issues with a partner or spouse. Can include issues related to relationship distress, relationship satisfaction, communication, intimacy, etc.
Race & Cultural Identity
Challenges around race and cultural identity vary enormously, including issues related to discrimination, racism, and intergenerational trauma.
Fees
$150
First Session
$150
Family Therapy
$150
Couples Therapy
$150
Individual Therapy
Types of Therapy
Family Session
Couples Session
Individual Session
Clientele
Adults (25-65)
Seniors (65+)
Treatment Approaches / Modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Existential Therapy
Humanistic Therapy
Integrative Therapy
Marriage and Family Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Transpersonal Therapy
Training / Certifications
LMFT License #42307
Licensure
CA, LMFT, 42307
Education
MPH - Masters in Public Health, Population health, UC Berkeley
MA - Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, John F. Kennedy University
Work History
I focus on mental health challenges associated with major change and transition, especially those related to caregiving, life limiting or chronic illness, end of life, dying, and death. I have worked with both large and small health organizations and hospitals serving patients, caregivers, and loved ones through home health services, hospice, and in skilled nursing facilities.
Location
2051 Hilltop Dr., Suite A-17C, Redding, 96002, CA