Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Family
- Child
- Adolescent/Teen
- Group
About My Clients
We are diversity-affirming, and informed to cultural differences. We embrace and celebrate the various identities that make you who you are. We serve individuals from all racial, ethnic, gender identity, sexual identity, religious backgrounds, and abilities. Our counseling center specializes in helping work through issues of anxiety, depression, work and school stressors, relationship issues, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ cultural identity related aspects, trauma, grief, coping strategies, and more.
My Background and Approach
I am a licensed Marriage Family Therapist with over 19 years of experience providing individual, relationship and group therapy. I earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix and a Master of Science in Counseling, Marriage, Family Therapy from the University of La Verne. As a person who identifies as Queer/Transmasculine, using pronouns (he/they) I benefitted tremendously from my own therapeutic work with therapists and meditation teachers who identified as LGBTQ+ and/or were supportive and affirming. I felt seen, heard and understood by providers who shared some of my lived experience and was able to heal my own trauma and internalized homophobia/transphobia. I graduated with a Masters in Counseling, Marriage Family Therapy from the University of La Verne in 2005. My primary focus is to serve the LGBTQ+ community and help others find their path to healing. In 2008, I achieved my dream and opened a private psychotherapy practice!
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
My primary focus is LGBTQ+ community, specializing in transgender/gender non-conforming folks. I also have expertise in Alcoholism/Addictions, Relationship Issues/Counseling, Depression, Anxiety, PTSD/Trauma: (Mental, Emotional, Physical, Sexual Abuse) I consider myself an eclectic therapist who utilizes a wide variety of theories and techniques including Mindfulness, Somatic, Cognitive Behavioral, Existential and Gestalt to serve the diverse needs of my clients. Psychotherapy has been shown to help folks heal and to cope with the unique stressors and traumas associated with life as LGBTQ+. For LGBTQ+ folks to heal trauma, heal emotional wounds, and accept and even celebrate themselves, is it beneficial to be seen, heard and understood by someone of their culture, who shares some of their lived experience and/or a supportive and affirming psychotherapist.