Approach

Q: How do you approach working with clients?

A: As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Santa Cruz, I work with men, women, teens, young adults, couples, and families who are seeking to improve the quality of their relationships and lives.

Whether you are working to ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety, healing from grief and loss issues, resolving trauma, or seeking deeper relationships with yourself and others, I can help you move forward.

I encourage clients to explore life's triumphs and the moments where tearful and fearful emotions and thoughts predominate. Together, we engage in a collaboration that nurtures authenticity and brings healing as all parts of your self are honored. With authenticity at the root of our therapy, the desire for change and growth are the nutrients that provide direction for our work.

I am constantly learning as a therapist. I stay in touch with new approaches to psychological and relational discomforts. My theoretical orientation combines object relations; existential/humanistic; solution focused and cognitive behavioral approaches.

Disappointment in relationships, trouble controlling anger, difficulty coping with sadness, negativity and fear, are a starting point, a red-flag that we are out of balance and are ready to choose a different approach to the habitual ways we relate to self and others. These changes require great courage. I am here to help.