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About My Clients
By specializing in individual therapy, offering a safe and compassionate space to explore your challenges and build resilience, you will be able to create lasting change. With an evidence-based approach and concrete techniques to improve things, we'll work together to help you overcome obstacles and embark on a new and better path.
My Background and Approach
During session we will first explore things that can be changed in your life so you can have some more immediate relief. For example, you will learn coping and calming strategies, communication skills and how your thoughts influence your feelings and behaviors. While the psycho-educational and skill based approaches are an important foundation in therapy, exploring where problems started (root causes) helps create the most sustainable change. Sometimes these root causes aren't so obvious. Accordingly, the second phase of therapy will involve digging into what's underlying your issues and sorting through those things to deepen self awareness and develop insight. I use an ecclectic approach that includes CBT, DBT, EMDR and other modalities.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I have spent the past 7 years running my own private practice working with clients struggling with everything from eating disorders to self harm, anxiety, depression, family conflict, peer conflict, bipolar disorder, substance use and abuse, grief and loss, gender identity and sexuality, and many other difficult to handle emotions and situations. Prior to private practice and throughout my years of training and licensure, I worked in a variety of organizational settings including domestic violence support, crisis response and working as a counselor in a high school setting. I helped CASSY (Counseling and Support Services for Youth) grow from at its first location at Los Gatos High School to include ten high schools and five middle schools in seven districts throughout the South Bay. I also worked as part of the Crisis Response Team at EMQ (now Pacific Clinics) performing suicide and homicide assessments for Santa Clara County. It has been an honor to work with so many families ove