LMFT, 15 years of experience
I have been a Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice located in the East Bay since 2012. My professional experience encompasses working with diverse social and cultural clients suffering from the chronic illnesses, anxiety symptoms, loss, trauma, depression as well as alcohol and chemical dependency. My therapeutic focus is to awake client’s own sense of awareness towards healing and personal growth. While assessing individual client needs and providing compassionate therapeutic interventions, I specialize in using Mindfulness skills, Time Limited Solution Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy as well as Guided Imagery. My work with clients leads to a reduction of Anxiety Symptoms and increases personal ability to better self-regulate in life. In addition to many years of experience in both clinical and private settings, I also have advanced training in Somatic Experiencing from Trauma Institute as well as Integrative Medicine Certification from The Institute for Health & Healing in San Francisco.
During our initial session, clients discover ways that could be helpful in reaching their goals in therapy. We discuss their history, symptoms and ways to increase motivation.
I provide clients with methods for Somatic Awareness and Anxiety control. I also expand their ability to use progressive relaxation in order to increase a deeper sense of safety and joy. I offer safe place for exploration of fear related feelings when dealing with trauma and offer solutions for healing.
clients that join therapeutic work in my practice, benefit from modalities that increase their function and reduce both depressive and anxiety symptoms. As a result of increased Mindfulness practice they are also able to increase insight, joy and find greater fulfillment in life.
Part of the integrative system I include therapy focused and mindfulness, somatic experiencing, guided imagery, expressive arts, as well as therapies based in humanistic approach healing