Talk Therapy in Northeast Los Angeles
I facilitate a collaborative process of discovery for people who are looking to gain a clearer sense of their experiences and the subjective meanings they may hold.
My clients are primarily individual adults and couples who seek therapy because they are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected.
If you are interested in knowing your emotional life in a more dynamic, multifaceted way, I could be the right therapist for you.
If you’ve landed here, I imagine you’re a bit like me — continually learning/unlearning what it means to know yourself and to be engaged in the world. Such reflection and reckoning is often marked by attempts to expand our capacity to live with uncertainty and ambiguity…and it can sometimes land us in psychotherapy.
I’ve found that this process is most fruitful when accompanied by someone who is warm, responsive, and active. As an integrative, depth-oriented therapist, I use various approaches, based on your specific needs at a given time, to attend to the problems bringing you to therapy.
Adults who struggle to show themselves the kind of empathetic understanding that they seem to so easily extend to others.
People who have learned “not to rock the boat” in interpersonal relationships.
Folks who are feeling lost or confused after a break-up or divorce.
Adults who have difficultly asking for help and perhaps who were the “the easy one” or “peacekeeper” in their family of origin.
People who have a unique perspective of living "in between" cultures.
Artists and creatives who struggle with worries about being fraudulent.
Burnout, self-critical perfectionists.
Highly sensitive and/or neurodivergent folks.
People grieving the death of someone they love.
Couples who seek greater emotional intimacy.
Who I see in my practice:
Sessions are conversational, open, and often non-linear. They begin with checking in on how you are feeling or on a topic that feels most relevant to you — and then we both follow our curiosities about what’s coming up in a process-oriented, creative fashion.
I listen to you on many levels. Through our relationship we can explore old (or deeply embedded) relational patterns while simultaneously trying on other modes that may be more congruent with your here-and-now circumstances.
I try to understand the nuances of your particular predicament or challenges, beginning from your point of view. Based on your needs and goals, some sessions may be quite structured and containing while others may be more associative and spacious.