emotional wounds

power struggles

separation anxiety

trouble focusing

sibling rivalry

disruptive behavior

defiance & disrespect

Therapy offers a confidential, nonjudgmental space to focus on what matters most. It can help with managing anxiety, stress, and insecurities. If you're dealing with relationship stuff, self-doubt, or patterns you want to change, counseling can help with building healthy habits and finding balance. Perhaps you wish to explore family dynamics or work through past trauma.

Whether you're working through problems at work or home, with sleep and appetite issues, or a major life change, therapy is a space to explore experiences in depth and gain the insight and skills needed to move forward. Information about evidence-based therapy and our preferred modalities can be found back on our home page.

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Areas of Focus

Individual Therapy

in Alamo, CA

friends & family

OCD & PTSD

overwhelm

grief and loss

health conditions

addictions

self-esteem

Therapy offers a confidential and accepting space to focus on what matters most. It can help with anxiety, grief, self-doubt and big life changes that take you off balance. Some seek support with relationships or self-doubt. Others want steadier habits and a sense of balance. For those who feel overwhelmed by work or life demands, therapy creates room to breathe and reset. You can examine patterns, understand reactions and gain skills that support real change. It is a place to explore your experience with clarity and purpose.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is effective in shifting unhelpful patterns and building more effective ways of responding to situations and others. EMDR supports the reprocessing of overwhelming memories in a structured and steady way that reduces their emotional impact. Solution-Focused Therapy highlights strengths and guides pragmatic, goal-oriented solutions to difficult circumstances in your life.. Psychodynamic interventions deepen the process by exploring meaning, identity and patterns shaped by earlier experiences. Each method is used with intention so treatment stays grounded, focused and tailored to your needs.

Carl Jung

until you make the unconscious conscious,

it will direct your life and you will call it fate

Our Preferred Evidence-Based Treatments

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an empirically supported treatment that helps change distressing thought patterns that contribute to anxiety and depression. Through CBT, you'll learn to identify and challenge negative thoughts, reframe irrational beliefs, and replace them with healthier, more realistic perspectives. CBT also focuses on breaking patterns of self-doubt and worry by learning how to re-evaluate situations and adopt more constructive thinking. These tools empower you to make lasting changes in how you think and respond.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness principles to help individuals manage emotions, navigate challenges, and improve relationships. It focuses on four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. By building these skills, DBT empowers individuals to replace destructive patterns with practical, lasting strategies that promote resilience, balance, and a greater sense of control in daily life.
TF-CBT helps by combining practical coping skills with gradual exposure to difficult memories. It starts by teaching relaxation techniques, emotional regulation, and ways to challenge unhelpful thoughts. Once a strong foundation is built, individuals slowly and safely process their trauma with the support of a therapist. This approach reduces fear and distress, strengthens personal resilience, and fosters healthier ways of thinking and relating to others.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a proven, client-centered approach designed to help individuals overcome ambivalence and create lasting change. It focuses on exploring personal motivations and values, guiding clients to take actionable steps toward their goals. MI is highly effective in treating issues like addiction, unhealthy behaviors, and low motivation by strengthening confidence and commitment, empowering clients to drive their own positive transformations.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a proven approach that that helps couples break negative cycles and strengthen emotional bonds. In therapy, partners identify patterns of conflict and learn techniques like emotional validation and replacing reactive behaviors with empathetic responses. EFT targets underlying emotional triggers, promoting healthier attachment while deepening intimacy. It’s particularly effective for couples facing disconnection, insecurity, and trust issues, leading to genuine understanding and lasting change. This therapy is effective with treating emotional withdrawal, fear of abandonment, and attachment wounds, creating stronger, more secure relationships.
EMDR helps your brain reprocess stuck memories so they no longer feel overwhelming or intense. Unprocessed experiences can trigger or worsen anxiety, shame, distress, and physiological reactions. After EMDR, difficult experiences often feel neutral, distant, or easier to manage. We use techniques like eye movements or handheld tappers to activate both sides of the brain, supporting your brain’s natural ability to heal and make sense of the distressing experiences. Sessions follow a structured 8-phase protocol to help you build resilience and process memories, while fully awake and alert. EMDR is effective for distress related to loss, illness, trauma, childhood wounds, and relationship pain.
ERP is a structured therapy that helps reduce distress from obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. It involves gradual, guided exposure to feared situations or thoughts without doing the habits or rituals you usually do to feel better. This process helps decrease anxiety over time and breaks the cycle of obsessions and rituals. You remain fully present and supported throughout, learning new ways to tolerate discomfort and regain control. ERP is especially effective for OCD, skin picking, hair pulling, and related anxiety challenges. Sessions are available in person and via telehealth throughout California.