Individual therapy
Something in you knows it's time.
You've been managing. This is something different.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY BASICS
Individual therapy in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles - and virtually throughout California - for adults who are functioning but running on empty. Whether you are navigating burnout, anxiety, depression, a major life transition, grief, or patterns that keep repeating, individual therapy offers a space to slow down, go inward, and actually figure out what is going on underneath. Free 20-minute consultations available.
Free consultation
A 20-minute call to talk about what's bringing you in and whether we're a good fit.
OR INQUIRE ABOUT INTENSIVES
AVAILABLE IN
San Francisco Bay Area
Los Angeles area
Virtual throughout California
Mandarin Chinese available
ALSO OFFERED
Half-day, full-day, and multi-day intensives for those who want to move faster or go deeper.
LEARN ABOUT INTENSIVES
Something is off. You can feel it.
You have built a life that, from the outside, looks like it is working. Good job, good relationships, a full calendar. And still -- something feels hollow. Or heavy. Or just not quite yours. You are not falling apart. You are functioning, possibly very well. But something on the inside no longer matches what you are showing the world, and you are tired of pretending it does.
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Maybe the word for it is burnout. Maybe it is anxiety that has lived so close to you for so long it started to feel like personality. Maybe you have a good life by every visible measure and still cannot shake the feeling that something essential is missing. Maybe you have been the strong one for so long you no longer know what you actually need.
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Maybe you have tried to figure it out on your own. Maybe you have tried therapy before and it was fine, but not quite enough. That is exactly the right place to start.
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I work best with clients who are ready for real growth, not just symptom relief -- people who want a therapeutic relationship they can actually build on over time, and who understand that the most meaningful returns on this kind of investment compound the longer the work goes.
What happens in individual therapy
We'll start with what's here. Follow where it leads. Find what becomes possible.
You have built a life that, from the outside, looks like it is working. Good job, good relationships, a full calendar. And still -- something feels hollow. Or heavy. Or just not quite yours. You are not falling apart. You are functioning, possibly very well. But something on the inside no longer matches what you are showing the world, and you are tired of pretending it does.
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Maybe the word for it is burnout. Maybe it is anxiety that has lived so close to you for so long it started to feel like personality. Maybe you have a good life by every visible measure and still cannot shake the feeling that something essential is missing. Maybe you have been the strong one for so long you no longer know what you actually need.
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Maybe you have tried to figure it out on your own. Maybe you have tried therapy before and it was fine, but not quite enough. That is exactly the right place to start.
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I work best with clients who are ready for real growth, not just symptom relief -- people who want a therapeutic relationship they can actually build on over time, and who understand that the most meaningful returns on this kind of investment compound the longer the work goes.
What we work on
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The anxiety that lives just underneath everything -- the version that looks like high performance from the outside
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Burnout, and the particular flatness that comes from doing everything right and still not feeling okay
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Grief, loss, and transitions that have no clean ending
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The old stuff that keeps showing up in new situations, no matter how much you understand it
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Not knowing what you actually want anymore -- or realizing you never let yourself find out
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Self-abandonment: the pattern of putting yourself last until you don't know who you are anymore
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Feeling like a fraud despite evidence that says otherwise
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Being the person everyone relies on, with no one playing that role for you
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ADHD and autism: learning to work with who you are, not against it
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TBI and ABI: identity, capacity, and life after
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Caregiver support: for those holding space for someone else at great personal cost
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The gap between how capable you appear and how you feel inside
Where people start. Where they end up.
What changes.
People come to me when the life they've built no longer feels like theirs. Something on the inside doesn't match what they're showing the world. They are exhausted by performing a version of themselves that no longer fits. Some have a good life by every visible measure and still cannot shake the feeling that something essential is missing. Some have spent so long putting everyone else first they have lost track of who they are.
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They leave balanced, secure, and proud of who they are. No longer abandoning themselves to keep everyone else comfortable. Living in alignment -- the inside finally matching the outside. More sure of themselves. At peace with the parts of them they used to loathe. Some reinvent their lives entirely.
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This is not brief therapy. The work builds relationally, over time. And when the time comes to close, that ending receives the same care as everything that came before it. Many clients arrive having experienced abrupt or unfinished endings elsewhere. Here, closure is not an afterthought. It is part of the work.
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