Individual Therapy
Danville, Ca (virtually throughout California)
You deserve to feel heard and understood in a safe space without judgment.
You may not have people in your life who listen when you share how you’re feeling. You may not have the skills to cope with the challenges you’re facing in your day-to-day life.
Counseling can provide you with a safe space where you can share without judgment, where you can learn new skills to manage these challenges, and where you can explore who you are in this moment and who you want to be. You’ll learn to be kind to yourself, how to sit with feelings that are uncomfortable so that you can grow and evolve.
I provide a space where you can be you and you can be your authentic self or discover who that is or who you want that to be. You set pace you take the lead. I will be here to support you, guide you when you get stuck and provide skills and tools to help you along the way. My approach is a cultural affirming and trauma informed integrated approach utilizing Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), IFS -Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, existential, attachment, and strength-based theories.
Some benefits and skills you will gain from therapy:
Symptom relief or mitigation
A deeper sense of self awareness and mindfulness
Ability to self-regulate
Holistic treatment and healing
Deeper understanding of self – “why I am the way that I am?” “what motivates me?” “why I do what I do?”
Ability to advocate for oneself and communicate with confidence
Empowerment
Self-Compassion
Complex/Relational Trauma
C-PTSD
Difficult/Painful Childhoods
Individuals who suffer from complex trauma, relational trauma, and PTSD from difficult childhoods or traumatic childhoods, don’t realize they have suffered trauma. As adults, clients from painful childhoods suffer from anxiety, depression, mood disorders, anger issues, substance abuse, and chronic illnesses. Some common traits of complex/relational trauma and difficult childhoods:
Parentified as children
Overly strict parents
Not allowed to cry or to show feelings
Yelled at or had lots of yelling in the household growing up
Substance abuse with one or both parents
A parent with mental disorder such as: bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, depression, anxiety
Infidelity in parents marriage and children pulled into the parent’s drama
Children of immigrant parents – 1st generation
Neglect
Clients with complex/relational trauma suffer or struggle with as adults:
Anxiety
Depression
Mood disorders
Strained relationships/ marriages
Inability to communicate or emotionally unavailable
Substance abuse
Flashbacks, PTSD
Low self-worth, self esteem
People pleasing
Addiction
Isolation/disconnection
Utilizing cultural affirming and trauma informed integrated approach we will work together to heal the wounds of your past and find a way forward, empower you with the skills and the self-love to let go and release the trauma and wounds.
Childhood trauma isn’t something you get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect, and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on brain development.
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Other obstacles I can help you with:
Anxiety
Social Anxiety
Depression
Relationship issues
Fertility issues
Life Transitions
Low self esteem or self worth
Anger Issues
Stress
People Pleasing
Overthinking
Attachment Disorders
Grief/Loss
Burnout
How Individual Therapy Works
Step 1
Schedule a Free Consultation
The first step is to schedule a free consultation where we can determine if we’re a good fit. We’ll talk about what prompted you to seek therapy and about what you hope to achieve in therapy.
Step 2
Have Our First Session Together
During our first session, we’ll explore in more detail your journey to therapy. I will do a lot of listening to give you space to share your story.
Step 3
Collaborate on Therapy Goals
In our second session, together we’ll create a plan of what you want to achieve during our time together. We’ll discuss some of the roadblocks you may face and strategies to overcome them.
Step 4
Ongoing Sessions & Goal Check In
In our subsequent sessions, we will continue to work on the goals you created at the beginning of therapy. If new problems arise, we will hold space for those problems, too. We will check in on your goals and make adjustments as necessary.
Frequently Asked Questions
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All you need to do is fill out all the paperwork thru our client portal before our first session.
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Whether in-person or virtual, imagine a safe and space where we begin to get to know each other and you share at your own pace what brings you to therapy.
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YES! I conduct both in-person and virtual sessions.
My office is located in Danville, Ca. The address is:
425 El Pintado Road Ste 168
Danville, Ca 94526
There is plenty of parking and right off the freeway.