HEALING THROUGH

KNOWLEDGE x THE HEART x RELATIONSHIPS

I believe that every person has the potential to heal and grow. I also believe that healing is a human right and belongs to us all.

My role as a therapist is to help you access your inner resources, overcome your challenges, and create a life that is meaningful and fulfilling for you.

My Services

  • Psychotherapy

    I offer online and in-person therapy for individuals, couples, families, and youth in California. I specialize in various issues such as trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationships.

  • Coaching

    I offer global coaching services for people who need guidance and support to achieve their personal or professional goals. I can help you with case management, strategy, and accountability.

  • Organizational Consulting

    I offer consulting services for individuals, teams, or companies who need help with designing or improving their programs. I can help you with collaboration, resources, structure, transparency, and creativity.

  • Workshops

    I offer workshops on various topics such as nonviolent communication, mindfulness, self-care, and diversity. I can tailor the content and format to your needs and preferences.

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RIPPLE EFFECT PHILOSOPHY

The concept behind Ripple Effect Therapy is that the mental health needs of society far outweigh our current resources. Even if everyone decided to go to individual, couples, or family therapy to get support and heal, there aren’t enough providers. Also, navigating the healthcare system can be a challenge for many of us. Hence, a more comprehensive solution is necessary if we as a people are serious about making real change and getting our collective well-being on track.

My mission is to inspire leadership in clients seeking services who will then take what they have learned into their respective families, friends, lovers, work environments, and communities. By creating a meaningful therapeutic relationship and offering modern psychotherapy, my wish is for clients to feel empowered enough to find windows of opportunity to create a ripple effect in their spheres of influence. My intention is to spread information regarding healthier ways of coping with emotions and communicating, fostering empathy for others and more self-compassion for ourselves, normalizing the sharing of resources, and destigmatizing mental health to create actual shifts in our culture. According to research, this allows a parallel process that promotes individual healing too. 

MY CLINICAL INTERESTS

  • Chronic depression (dysthymia)

  • Nervous system regulation information and techniques

  • Compassion fatigue (teachers, social activists, social workers, healthcare providers, etc)

  • Gender exploration and transitions

  • Building self-esteem and confidence

  • Spirituality

  • Nurturing meaningful relationships (addressing attachment wounds, embracing interdependence, building community)

  • Youth/adolescence (12-18 years old)

  • Teaching nonviolent communication skills

  • Personality disorders

  • Systemic injustice (classism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, capitalism, colonialism, etc)

  • Helping people find and strengthen their voice, first by getting in tune with their feelings and needs

  • Premarital counseling

  • Anxiety symptom management

  • Deconstructing and challenging white supremacist ideology

  • Sex work (current and former) and sex positivity (from asexual to kink)

  • Navigating consensual non-monogamy

  • Discernment couples counseling

  • Life transitions

  • Processing childhood trauma

  • Professional self-care

  • Affirming sexual identity 

  • Helping white clients locate themselves in the field of colonialism and supporting them in bringing more than guilt and anger to the movement

  • Strategies for decision making

  • Encouraging leadership and destigmatizing mental health

  • Body acceptance and positive body image

  • Grief

  • Chronic illness and disability

  • Preventing and recovering from burnout