Welcome

My hope for you is that therapy will heal you, illuminating dark or muddled places in you that are ready to be seen. 

If you are experiencing depression, anxiety, confusion or simply a sense of ‘missing something,’ I strongly believe that therapy is a place to face and begin to understand these feelings. 

In our work, you can begin to listen deeply to the important messages these experiences are sending you.

By increasing your self-awareness and self-love, you can learn to understand, respect and change your experience as you become ready to make a new choice. 

What is most important to me is that you will feel able to respect and honor your pain, your life experience, your process. Ultimately my hope is for you to begin to make choices in your life that are enlivening and fulfilling.

This can provide a foundation for successful interpersonal relationships, as a more actualized person has more energy, wholeness and vitality to honestly engage, attract and be of service to another.

My goal is to enable you to experience the clarity and strength to know what you want and to act appropriately and efficiently to attain your heart’s desire.

Attaining this goal is made possible by learning to be aware of yourself–your body, your emotions, your spirit and your thoughts.

Building this awareness will create more self-love, the touchstone of living as your most authentic self on your highest path.

My goal is first to ensure that each individual knows and can ask for and work toward what they want. The couple is my client, not the individual. This means that I will support the health of the couple in a fair and even manner, not ‘taking sides.’

What I attend and focus on is the vitality in your relationship. If they want the relationship to thrive, I will do everything in my power to foster its growth. If the relationship does not seem vital after some work together, I will work to facilitate a clear, meaningful and loving ending.

I model and teach empathic communication, helping to de-escalate and heal longstanding resentments by bringing to light the sacred need or desire behind them. I will also help you to understand how you impact each-other with your needs and your communication style. I know how to be creative and have fun with serious subjects and strong emotions that arise in a relationship, balancing the weight of a couple’s concern with integrity and creative flexibility. As an invested and balanced presence, I will help track each person’s emotions and needs, enabling more efficient expression of them. I will help you to really hear each-other, and learn to cherish each-other again. The difficult areas I most often see arise with couples are:

·    Communication

·    Sex

·    Finances

·    Individual vs. Couple needs

·    Addiction/Alcoholism

Any of these issues can be worked on with the right support and guidance. All of these issues are workable. Clients often take comfort in knowing they have a safe environment in which to process these issues together, often tackling the most sensitive material once we are in the room together.

None of us live in a vacuum, and I believe that our community’s health and well-being affects us all.  As a trained Community Health Outreach Worker and Rape Crisis Counselor, I have worked in the community doing education and outreach in San Francisco. This has included helping educate and train youth with street-based outreach, providing referrals and risk-reduction counseling. I have also supervised Queer Youth Community Interns, training them as outreach workers.  I have also often worked in facilitating groups, brainstorming, role-playing, and doing group art projects. I have worked with groups on sex and sexuality, as well as issues of diversity and drug use. I have organized fundraising events for local non-profits through community networking.