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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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Individual Therapy

in Pleasant Hill and Alamo, CA

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OCD & PTSD
overwhelm
grief and loss
health conditions
addictions
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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.

Therapy offers a confidential,  nonjudgmental space to focus on what matters most. It can help with  managing anxiety, grief, and tough life transitions. Some come to  address relationships or self-doubt. Others seek support with building healthy habits or finding balance. For those feeling overwhelmed by work, family, or life demands, therapy provides tools to regain balance. Perhaps you wish to explore behavior patterns or work through past trauma. Whether you're working through self-doubt, dysregulation, or a major life change, therapy is a space to explore your experiences in  depth and gain the insight and skills needed to move forward.


Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is effective in helping to challenge unhelpful behaviors and replace them with healthier, more realistic ones. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is often used for help with intense emotions, focusing on emotional regulation, mindfulness, and interpersonal skills. For trauma survivors, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps reprocess traumatic memories, reducing their emotional charge and promoting healing. Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT) is particularly beneficial for children and teens who have experienced trauma, combining traditional CBT with trauma-sensitive approaches to help them process and cope with their experiences. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is often used to draw out insights that guide practical, goal-oriented solutions to current challenges. This approach emphasizes strengths and resources for effective strategies to move forward. 

  • Mental Health: depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, PTSD

  • Addiction: alcohol/drug concerns, gambling, compulsive behaviors

  • Relationships: marriage struggles, family conflicts, patterns overall

  • Stress: career pressures, overwhelm, stress management

  • Grief and Loss: coping with death, divorce, major life changes

  • Self-Esteem: low self-worth and building a positive self-image

  • Behavioral: anger management, emotional regulation, impulsivity

  • Personal growth: self-discovery, goals, healthy choices

  • Physical: chronic illness, pain management, health conditions

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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.

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395 Taylor Blvd

Pleasant Hill, CA 94523

3189 Danville Blvd
Alamo, CA 94507

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