“Our pain doesn’t mean we’re broken. Our pain is beckoning us to reignite our soul’s deepest truths, dreams, ideals, and possibilities.”
My work is primarily experiential and somatic, with a focus on working with the unconscious forces that so often hijack our lives without our consent.
Most of my clients already come in the door with an awareness of their problems, so our focus is to reconcile the discrepancies between our unconscious minds that often call the shots behind the scenes so that we can regain agency of our own lives.
As Jung said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Trauma is stored in the body and we often don’t realize it we’re carrying it with us until we begin to experience problems and patterns in our lives and behaviors aren’t lining up with who we are.
We work together to reconcile the mind and the body, which are so often cut off from each other, creating confusion, anxiety, and helplessness.
We act out our trauma until we heal it.
Blending practical tools with deep, experiential and somatic work, we integrate what has been split off and empower ourselves to heal.
We learn to come back into contact with the parts of ourselves we’ve left behind, and as we do we become more empowered, awake, and alive.
When we do this work honestly and engage with it fully, it creates shifts in every realm of our lives.
As we gain greater awareness of who we are at our core, we create deep shifts the way we interact with ourselves as well as with others, transforming our relationships along with us.
My primary specializations are anxiety, couples therapy, family therapy, and relationship issues and codependency.
I’m very active and direct as a therapist, providing actionable feedback in real-time. I am open with my observations and bring forth my honest reactions forth with compassion and care, so you never have to guess what I’m thinking.
I strive to approach our work together with brutal honesty and endless compassion, as I do in my own life.
Because I’ve been through the trenches of my own struggles with depression, anxiety, and relationship issues, my expertise comes not only from years of training, but from a continuous confrontation with my own demons and the ever-unfolding lessons that arise in that process.
One of the things that makes me different from other therapists is that I will help you work with your unconscious anxiety and defenses in real time in the session, rapidly recognizing the blind spots and pointing them out to you in the here and now.
While we will address and heal the past stories, trauma, and self-limiting beliefs, we will focus primarily on how the past interfaces with your present difficulties as well as transformative practices that provide powerful relief and healing to transform both the past and present.
Together we will bring to surface the unconscious baggage that is inadvertently controlling your life and help you integrate it with your conscious mind so that you can regain a sense of empowered agency in your life.
Making the connection between what’s happening in session in the present and what you’re struggling with outside of session, we explore unconscious anxiety and defenses within the session and uncover what’s beneath them–what you’ve been running from and protecting yourself from.
As we unearth these deeply buried aspects of the psyche hidden behind our defenses, our wounds begin to heal and we become empowered to trust ourselves and create the lives we want.
I want to help you become free from the feeling that your love for yourself is contingent upon your success, performance, perfection, or external circumstances.
As such, you will come to know that the real, uncensored, struggling, hurt you is loved exactly as you are as you move toward embodying your highest values and living out your truest and most beautiful and vital self.
We find you the perfect therapist – or your money back.
Promenade
127 Broadway Suite 205
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Venice
130 Ocean Park Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405
San Fernando Valley
16055 Ventura Blvd.
Encino, CA 91436.
Brentwood
12100 Wilshire Blvd. 8th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90025
City
10801 National Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90064
