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Individual Therapy for Complex Patterns, Relationships, and Demanding Lives

You may understand your patterns intellectually and still repeat them. I work with adults facing trauma, anxiety, depression, anger, burnout, relationship difficulties, and the strain of carrying significant responsibility. Together, we look at what is happening in your thoughts, body, relationships, history, and wider context so that meaningful change becomes possible.

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When Insight Has Not Been Enough

You may already know why you overwork, withdraw, please people, stay vigilant, become reactive, or struggle to depend on anyone. Knowing where a pattern came from can help, but insight alone does not always change what happens when your body senses danger, disappointment, rejection, or loss of control.

There is nothing inherently wrong with you. Your mind and body developed intelligent ways to protect you and help you adapt. Therapy gives us a place to understand those patterns, appreciate what they have done for you, and decide whether they still fit the life and relationships you want now.

I Work Well With Complexity

Many of my clients are outwardly capable but privately struggling. They may be professionals, executives, founders, parents, creatives, or people accustomed to carrying responsibility for everyone around them.

You might be dealing with:

Anxiety, depression, anger, shame, or emotional numbness
Trauma and difficult attachment histories
Burnout, overworking, perfectionism, or people-pleasing
Recurring conflict or disappointment in relationships
Difficulty trusting, depending on others, or allowing yourself to be known
A major transition, loss, identity shift, or consequential decision
The feeling that you have already tried everything and should be able to figure this out yourself

I am comfortable with intensity and with situations where several things are true at once. We do not have to flatten your experience into one diagnosis, one childhood explanation, or one clever solution.

How we will work:

Together, we look at what is happening across several dimensions of your life:

What you think and believe
What happens in your body and nervous system
How you relate to other people
What operates outside your immediate awareness
How family, culture, work, power, identity, and the wider world shape your experience

I draw from relational and psychodynamic therapy, schema therapy, trauma-focused and somatic approaches, attachment work, parts work models, and practical behavioral skills. I use these as maps, not as formulas.

Our work may include slowing down and noticing what is happening in the moment, mapping a recurring pattern, experimenting with a different response, practicing a difficult conversation, or making room for grief that cannot be solved.

My Style

I am warm, candid, collaborative, and active. I care, challenge, and sometimes provoke. I may offer an observation, teach a skill, invite you to notice what your body is doing, or ask how we’re recreating something important in the therapy room.

This is not therapy where you talk for 50 minutes while I quietly nod. It is also not a program for optimizing yourself into a shinier machine.

The aim is greater flexibility, agency, connection, and the ability to live life more authentically.

What Can Change

Through therapy, you may become better able to:

Recognize and interrupt patterns before they take over
Understand emotions without being ruled by them
Relate to yourself with greater honesty and compassion
Set boundaries without abandoning yourself or other people
Tolerate conflict, uncertainty, grief, and vulnerability
Make decisions that reflect your values
Build relationships with more choice, intimacy, and room to breathe
Accept what cannot be changed without giving up your agency

Some patterns change. Some loosen their grip. Some remain part of your life, but you learn to meet them with more humor, care, and leadership.

Online Individual Therapy in California

I provide online psychotherapy to adults located in California at the time of our sessions. Sessions are 50 minutes and usually begin weekly so we can build momentum.

My fee is $250 per 50-minute individual session. I am an out-of-network provider and can provide a superbill for possible insurance reimbursement. Equity-based rates may be available by application.

Let’s schedule a free 20-minute consultation to see whether we are a good fit.

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