individual Psychotherapy

I provide individual psychotherapy to teens and adults, specializing in:

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Life transitions

  • Sex and sexuality

  • Gender exploration/gender identity

  • Disordered eating/body image

  • Chronic Illness

  • Grief/loss

  • ADHD, Autism, and AuDHD

  • Relationship issues and attachment

  • LGBTQIA+ specific themes

Individual therapy can occur in-person in Long Beach, California and virtually across California and Massachusetts via secure telehealth platforms. I work collaboratively with each client to identify what you want to get out of therapy and build a therapy plan that honors your unique strengths and challenges.

couples & relationship therapy

Relationships are complex and require intention to remain healthy and fulfilling. I work with monogamous and non-monogamous/polyamorous partnerships around issues of:

  • Communication

  • Conflict

  • Cross-cultural issues and power imbalances

  • Family planning, including queer family planning and fertility issues

  • Relationship structure changes, including polyamory and consensual non-monogamy

  • Sex and sexuality, including kink and desire discrepancy issues

  • Parenting disagreements and challenges

  • Working together/shared business ownership

  • Gender transition and identity

  • Mixed neuro-type dynamics, mixed disability-status dynamics

My approach is informed modalities such as Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). I work well with partnerships who are motivated for change.

Couples and relationship therapy is offered in-person in Long Beach, California and virtually across California and Massachussetts via secure telehealth platforms.

Family therapy can be a powerful tool for addressing disconnection and improving closeness. I work with family consetllations such as:

  • Families adjusting to a new normal after major life events

  • Parents and adult children wanting to heal from past ruptures and improve closeness

  • Parents seeking support to understand their children’s’ behaviors and big emotions

  • Families wanting help in accepting and embracing queer and transgender children

My approach to family therapy is informed by Family Systems Theory, Structural Therapy, Open Dialogue, and Psychodynamic Therapy. We will start by identifying what each family member wants to get out of family therapy. Keeping your goals at the center, we will work collaboratively to improve communication, understanding, and empathic conflict resolution between family members. This may look like exploring the dynamics within the family unit, implementing new communication skills, practicing emotion regulation and boundary setting, and more.

Family therapy is offered in-person in Long Beach, California and virtually across California and Massachussetts via secure telehealth platforms.

FAMILY THERAPY

Athlete mental health

Athletes experience unique, often invisible challenges, from understanding who you are outside of your sport to expectations and performance pressure. I have specialized training and experience working with youth, collegiate, and professional athletes, as well as coaches and loved ones of professional athletes. Athlete specific therapy can address:

  • Identity, inside and outside of sport

  • Gender and sexuality as an athlete

  • Coping with injuries and returning from injuries

  • Coping with performance anxiety, pressure, and stress

  • Locker room and teammate dynamics

  • Power and control

  • Disordered eating and body image issues

  • The intersections of non-sport related mental health issues with performance and emotions about sport

If you are seeking individual or couples athlete specific mental health support, please indicate this in your inquiry. If you are an organization or team seeking short-term mental health support in response to a crisis, loss, personnel change, or related issue please reach send me an inquiry or email to discuss options options.

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