WHAT SERVICES DO I PROVIDE?Individual Psychotherapy for Adults
I offer weekly 50-minute sessions for a variety of concerns. (note: I do not provide couples therapy, but can provide referrals to colleagues.) |
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Telehealth Services
Update March 2020: Given the current restrictions due to COVID-19, I am shifting my practice to virtual platforms and offering services over telehealth. This allows me to continue providing support for my clients, and to extend my services to residents all over the state of California.
If during this time of social isolation, you find yourself feeling more depressed and anxious, please reach out to discuss resources. If I can’t help you, I'll connect you to someone who can.
If during this time of social isolation, you find yourself feeling more depressed and anxious, please reach out to discuss resources. If I can’t help you, I'll connect you to someone who can.
WHO DO I WORK WITH?
Just about everybody! I am particularly interested in welcoming those who may not feel as comfortable in all treatment spaces:
WHAT DO I SPECIALIZE IN?
Psychedelic Integration
Many of us have had some sort of psychedelic, transpersonal, or psychospiritual experience in our lives. It can be a challenge to understand and incorporate the insights that arise during these events into our everyday selves without support and a nonjudgmental space. Integration can also assist those who have had difficult experiences to safely work through the material elicited by psychedelics.
(NOTE: I participate in ketamine assisted psychotherapy, and can offer psychedelic integration, but am not able to offer guidance with substances that are not currently legal. Please see the excellent article "So, You Want To Find a Psychedelic Guide?" for more information.)
Alcohol and Substance Use Concerns
I am trained in and practice from a harm reduction perspective. This is a collaborative, common-sense approach designed to meet YOU where YOU are at, and to help you to set your own goals for change.
Exploring Identity
Trying to figure out who you are and where you're going? Wondering how to succeed without forcing yourself to fit in? Need to talk about your gender presentation or sexual orientation? Want to discuss size acceptance or Health at Every Size? Sometimes our social groups don't provide the space we need to discover new aspects of ourselves, and therapy is a great place to do just that.
Depression, Anxiety, and Mood Disorders
I blend cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices with methods to help you understand yourself at a deeper level, and make lasting change in the underlying causes of these issues. When it comes to tackling significant distress, practical coping tools AND deeper insights go hand-in-hand.
Recovery from Trauma and Loss
Human beings encounter scary events and painful losses, but we are able to survive--and even thrive--when we support each other. Whether you are trying to adapt to something recent and shocking, or looking to heal from a longer history of trauma, I help you to create safety in the present day, accessing the powerful survival skills you already have. Let's begin to rewrite the script of your life together.
Social Justice Conversations
I remain aware that therapy happens within a social and cultural context. Supporting members of marginalized groups means making a place for discussing issues related to oppression when appropriate. Healthy, productive conversations allow us to gently--yet unflinchingly--examine privilege and discuss intersectionality in ways that make our communities stronger.
Mid-Life Transitions
Our culture pathologizes aging, preventing us from supporting or celebrating the stages of our adult growth. Finding meaning in the second half of life can be a rich process, and I offer space for this new layer of discovery.
Habit Change and Goal-Setting
How would you like your life to be different? Have you found change to be surprisingly hard? You’re not alone--we all struggle with motivation and feel stuck in our patterns. I have helped even those who felt their lives were hopeless make real and substantial change.
Employment and Career Consultation
I have nearly a decade of experience in assisting people to recover from job loss, make major life transitions and change careers, deal with workplace behavior and politics, address creative blocks, apply for disability, and engage in effective job searches. I can help you explore your talents and passions to find more meaning in your work.
Anger Management and Conflict Resolution
Anger itself is a normal, human emotion! Though interpersonal conflict is an inevitable part of life, seldom are we taught the skills and coping tools to manage situations assertively. Learn how to express your needs AND preserve your relationships.
- The LGBTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, allies, pansexual) communities
- All presentations of gender-creative, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, and non-binary folks
- Those who have found traditional abstinence and recovery models to be problematic or rigid
- People of color; those of ethnic, racial, and cultural minority status; immigrants and refugees
- Members of the trans communities seeking collaborative consultation and planning for a gender affirmation process (including letters of recommendation for hormone therapy and/or surgery), in accordance with the WPATH
- Burners, psychonauts, and those looking to integrate psychedelic experiences
- People in non-traditional, polyamorous, non-monogamous, or open relationships/families
- Those with kink/BDSM practices or identities
- Sex workers and their partners
- Other therapists; front-line workers who are at risk for vicarious traumatization; non-profit staff
- Those interested in Health at Every Size, fat activism, or feminist approaches to body acceptance
- Big thinkers and dreamers who spend a lot of time wondering why they are here, and want a place to freely talk about those ideas
- Those who have experienced spiritual emergency or non-ordinary states of consciousness, or who want to discuss nontraditional spiritual beliefs or practices (pagan/Wiccan, tarot, etc.)
- San Francisco fixtures: iconoclasts, artists and creatives, activists, performers, subculture kids, nerds, magicians and witches, and self-identified weirdos; from natives to newcomers, all are welcome!
WHAT DO I SPECIALIZE IN?
Psychedelic Integration
Many of us have had some sort of psychedelic, transpersonal, or psychospiritual experience in our lives. It can be a challenge to understand and incorporate the insights that arise during these events into our everyday selves without support and a nonjudgmental space. Integration can also assist those who have had difficult experiences to safely work through the material elicited by psychedelics.
(NOTE: I participate in ketamine assisted psychotherapy, and can offer psychedelic integration, but am not able to offer guidance with substances that are not currently legal. Please see the excellent article "So, You Want To Find a Psychedelic Guide?" for more information.)
Alcohol and Substance Use Concerns
I am trained in and practice from a harm reduction perspective. This is a collaborative, common-sense approach designed to meet YOU where YOU are at, and to help you to set your own goals for change.
Exploring Identity
Trying to figure out who you are and where you're going? Wondering how to succeed without forcing yourself to fit in? Need to talk about your gender presentation or sexual orientation? Want to discuss size acceptance or Health at Every Size? Sometimes our social groups don't provide the space we need to discover new aspects of ourselves, and therapy is a great place to do just that.
Depression, Anxiety, and Mood Disorders
I blend cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices with methods to help you understand yourself at a deeper level, and make lasting change in the underlying causes of these issues. When it comes to tackling significant distress, practical coping tools AND deeper insights go hand-in-hand.
Recovery from Trauma and Loss
Human beings encounter scary events and painful losses, but we are able to survive--and even thrive--when we support each other. Whether you are trying to adapt to something recent and shocking, or looking to heal from a longer history of trauma, I help you to create safety in the present day, accessing the powerful survival skills you already have. Let's begin to rewrite the script of your life together.
Social Justice Conversations
I remain aware that therapy happens within a social and cultural context. Supporting members of marginalized groups means making a place for discussing issues related to oppression when appropriate. Healthy, productive conversations allow us to gently--yet unflinchingly--examine privilege and discuss intersectionality in ways that make our communities stronger.
Mid-Life Transitions
Our culture pathologizes aging, preventing us from supporting or celebrating the stages of our adult growth. Finding meaning in the second half of life can be a rich process, and I offer space for this new layer of discovery.
Habit Change and Goal-Setting
How would you like your life to be different? Have you found change to be surprisingly hard? You’re not alone--we all struggle with motivation and feel stuck in our patterns. I have helped even those who felt their lives were hopeless make real and substantial change.
Employment and Career Consultation
I have nearly a decade of experience in assisting people to recover from job loss, make major life transitions and change careers, deal with workplace behavior and politics, address creative blocks, apply for disability, and engage in effective job searches. I can help you explore your talents and passions to find more meaning in your work.
Anger Management and Conflict Resolution
Anger itself is a normal, human emotion! Though interpersonal conflict is an inevitable part of life, seldom are we taught the skills and coping tools to manage situations assertively. Learn how to express your needs AND preserve your relationships.
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Spiritual Emergence and Emergency
The constraints of our culture can make it difficult to speak about psychospiritual experiences and non-ordinary states of consciousness. I have acquired additional certification in supporting spiritual growth and exploration from a nonjudgmental, curious stance. |
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(Note: although I am unable to prescribe medication, I am happy to refer you to a psychiatrist if appropriate, and to collaborate with any medical professionals you see.)
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The information and resources contained on this website are for informational purposes only and are not intended to assess, diagnose, or treat any medical and/or mental health disease or condition. The use of this website does not imply nor establish any type of therapist-client relationship. Furthermore, the information obtained from this site should not be considered a substitute for a thorough medical and/or mental health evaluation by an appropriately credentialed and licensed professional. This website includes links to other websites for informational and reference purposes only. This website does not endorse, warrant or guarantee the products, services or information described or offered at these other websites. Examine the content carefully.
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