About Me

I know it takes tremendous courage to ask for help. It is my job to navigate your journey towards a joyful, fulfilling life with loving relationships.

Allow me introduce myself. It is important for you to see if we are a good match.

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) I have over 23 years of experience in private practice. I am passionate about helping adults, children, teenagers, young adults and families gently work through issues, both physically and emotionally.

Over the years I have witnessed the transformative effects of psychodynamic, attachment focused, top-down talk therapy. However, I often experienced its limitations in treating relational trauma, shock trauma (accidents for example), and the chronic resulting symptoms they cause, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). When I discovered Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), Dr. Peter Levine’s groundbreaking trauma therapy, I realized I had found the missing piece to my approach. Through SE I got in touch with Maggie Kline’s innovative SE work with children, and NeuroAffective Touch®, developed by Dr. Aline LaPierre.

SE and NeuroAffective Touch allowed me to integrate a gentle, safe and transformative body-oriented approach, helping my clients restore a sense of joy, presence and meaningful connection with self and others, while healing the cause of their issues.

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Types of Therapy

  • Psychodynamic

  • Somatic Experiencing (SE) Trauma Therapy

  • NeuroAffective Touch

  • Teletherapy available (CA state)

Specialties

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Life Transitions

  • Relational Trauma

  • Shock Trauma

  • Complex PTSD

  • Building Resilience

Issues I work with

  • ADHD

  • Behavioral issues

  • Body Psychotherapy

  • Career counseling

  • Chronic Stress

  • Complex Trauma

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Coping skills

  • Cultural diversity & assimilation

  • Developmental disorders

  • Divorce

  • Eating disorders

  • Emotional overwhelm

  • Family conflict

  • Grief, loss

  • Learning difficulties and disabilities

  • Marital and premarital issues

  • Parenting

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  • Relationship issues

  • School-related issues

  • Self-confidence

  • Self-esteem

  • Sexual abuse

  • Social issues

  • Stress

  • Trauma

“Thank you for helping me to become who I’m meant to be!”

— Client

Education & Credentials

 

Years in Practice: since 1997
License: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, MFC39102 California
Master’s Degree: Psychology, Antioch University, Los Angeles, 1997
Bachelor’s Degree: Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988

CERTIFICATIONS

Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (Trauma Therapy), 2018, developed by Dr. Peter A. Levine
NeuroAffective Touch® Practitioner, 2017, with Dr. Aline LaPierre
UCLA, PEERS Facilitator (Program of the Evaluation and Enrichment of Relational Skills), 2012

MEMBERSHIPS & LISTINGS

Los Angeles County Psychological Association
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute
Psychology Today (verified credentials)
Good Therapy (verified credentials)

“I have felt so understood by you and felt so held by your compassion and intelligence.”

-Client