Warm, nurturing counseling and coaching throughout California
- Feel like you're never good enough, no matter what you accomplish?
- Worried about money and security, even though your finances are healthy and you're respected in your career?
- Is it hard to set boundaries or disappoint people?
- Are you looking for a therapist who is warm, caring, and real?
Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and Relationship Problems
No matter what the diagnosis, people always have the same core issue. They don't feel like they're good enough. Here are some ways that feeling shows up.
- Anxiety over being judged or fear you won't be able to take care of yourself - even though you clearly can.
- Depression when all your striving and achieving doesn't silence your inner critic.
- Compulsive scrolling, eating, drinking, or weed use as you try to soothe your stress and worry.
- People-pleasing hoping that others will appreciate and value you.
- Guilt or fear that setting boundaries or saying no will push others away or get you "in trouble."
A Therapy-Coaching Hybrid that Makes a Difference
When you talk with me, you'll get my whole personality. I will talk and teach as much as I listen and empathize. I will say a lot more than "How does that make you feel?"
In addition to traditional talk therapy, I'm trained in hypnosis, EMDR, and Somatic (body awareness) therapy. I also bring years of teaching experience to the work so I can mentor and coach you in developing new self-care skills. I want to empower you from day one, to help you feel more secure.
There's a lot of buzz about Self-Care and Self-Compassion these days. But a meme can't teach you how to speak to yourself so you feel understood and respected. A meme can't show you how to treat yourself so you feel deeply nurtured. That's a process we can do together. I love helping my clients discover what they need to feel loved from within. My superpower is teaching my clients how to give themselves that kindness, care, and respect.
Here’s the most important thing.
It’s not being good enough that makes us feel lovable.
It is being loved for no good reason that makes us feel good enough.
You are the best person to give yourself that unconditional love, validation, and kindness - because you're with yourself 24/7. My job is to show you how.
Additional ways I may help
- Healing trauma associated with having insecure, immature, critical, or unavailable parents
- Learning to "Adult" and to trust in your ability to take care of yourself
- Resolving ACA and codependency issues like overachieving and people-pleasing
- Finding people you enjoy, who like and accept you as-is, no having to jump through hoops
- Learning to tend to your body as it ages, especially in youth-obsessed culture
- Coping with chronic pain through stress reduction, guided visualization, or hypnotherapy
- Coping with PMS, PMDD, or Menopause and the havoc hormones can wreak on your mood
Schedule a free consultation
If this resonates, please call or schedule an appointment. I always do a free half-session to make sure the fit between us is right and to answer any questions.
