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Individual Therapy

Individual therapy is a confidential, steady, and safe space to pause, reflect, and explore what stirs within you and shapes your life. Whether you are in crisis, navigating a specific challenge, or seeking to enhance your overall well-being, therapy offers time, space, and a supportive relationship in which healing and growth can unfold. Together, we will trace the patterns that guide your thoughts, emotions, and relationships, deepening your understanding of yourself with curiosity and care.

Our therapeutic relationship becomes an important part of this process. Within the safety of our work together, we can notice and explore patterns as they arise in real time, creating opportunities for new understanding and change.

My aim is to support you in moving toward your hopes and goals, discovering greater clarity, relief, and a sense of alignment. Together, we’ll attend to the places of pain that have held you back, work to understand your needs, and open space for choice, growth, and deeper connection. This process can feel slow at times—just as the challenges you’ve faced did not arise overnight, healing also takes time. Together, we’ll move toward a life that feels more wholehearted, authentic, and fulfilling.

In-person sessions are available in San Francisco, with virtual sessions offered throughout California.

Experiences and Patterns We Might Make Sense Of Together:

  • Relationships & Dating – including challenges in current relationships, entering new relationships, navigating early connections, and dating.

  • Anxiety & Panic Attacks

  • Sadness & Loneliness

  • Low Self-Esteem & Self-Worth

  • Difficult Family Dynamics – including complex family relationships and intergenerational patterns.

  • Complex Trauma – such as childhood trauma, ongoing relational trauma, or repeated adverse experiences.

  • Work-Life Balance & Career Stress

  • Grief & Loss, and Separations – including mourning the death of loved ones, endings, or major life changes.

  • Life Transitions – including breakups, graduation, adjusting to college, career changes, or relocation.

  • Depression & Low Mood

  • Suicidal Thoughts & Self-Harm

  • Sexual & Health Concerns – including STIs, abortion, and reproductive experiences.

  • Sexual Trauma & Sexual Assault

  • LGBTQIA+

  • Shame, Perfectionism & People-Pleasing

  • Sexual Trauma

  • Domestic Abuse & Intimate-Partner Violence

  • Substance Use

  • Friendship & Peer Relationships

“We don’t have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.”

— Brené Brown