New to Grow
Hello and welcome! I have been a licensed psychologist in California since 2016. My goal is to help individuals enhance their sense of well being and experience a greater sense of meaning in their lives. This can be done by acquiring coping skills to identify, and refute unhelpful habits of thinking, increase self-compassion and self-care. My approach to counseling is strengths based and empowerment focused. I use a collaborative and egalitarian style with people who I works with in counseling. When meeting with me for the first time, clients can expect an opportunity to explore presenting concerns and potential goals for treatment. I received his Bachelors degree Psychology from the George Washington University, my first Masters degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University and my second Masters degree and Doctorate in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of La Verne. When I’m not working with clients, you can find me in the garden!
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In your first session with me, one should expect a warm and collaborative atmosphere, where you and I can can tailor our approach to meet your specific needs and goals for counseling.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I integrate several different theoretical orientations into my clinical work in order to maximize my ability to support the people I work.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I enjoy working with adults in individual counseling who are motivated to create the change that they would like to see in their own lives.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I use ACT to help clients deepen their awareness of the values that are most important to them and ways that they can integrate these values more fully into their actions and decision making processes as a means of invigorating their lives with more meaning and purpose.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT interventions to help clients more fully understand unhelpful habits of thinking that they experience, negative core beliefs that they hold about themselves and strategies for restructuring thoughts and beliefs to be as accurate and pragmatic as possible.
Compassion Focused
I use Compassion Focused therapy interventions in order to help normalize and validate a clients experience and strengthen their ability to offer compassion to themselves and others.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
I use the core skills of mindfulness and mindful meditations in order to help clients to strengthen their ability to be more fully present in the moment, reduce emotional reactivity and more intentionally deal with thoughts, emotions and body sensations.