We offer the following therapy services:
Individual Therapy
Couples Therapy
Child & Adolescent Therapy
Family Therapy
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Registered MFT Intern, IMF #55419
Supervised by Susan Vanderburgh
Licensed MFT, # MFC 27575
When you come to therapy looking for help
you want to know you’ve found someone who can really hear where you are, and who understands what you’re going through. I’m dedicated to being a therapist who listens attentively and compassionately with understanding. I bring wisdom, experience, curiosity and intuition to our work together in a manner that’s heartfelt, warm and open, and accepting of you as you are.
An important part of my work as your therapist is to create and hold a safe and secure space for you that accurately reflects your emotional needs, while respecting your inner wisdom and resilient healing abilities. This gives you the opportunity to work into and through the internal places that are holding pain, anxiety and confusion, preventing you from being able to see, accept and love yourself as you are—a unique and irreplaceable human being with talents and insights only you possess. It allows you to begin once again to experience and celebrate that core sense of yourself which has always been there, but may have been covered up long ago by natural responses to the affronts and hurts you have had to endure. And it allows you to tap into your intuition, your own custom guidance tool.
My approach to psychotherapy is holistic and mindful. Therefore, I find it vital to invite the mind, body, emotions, and spirit (all of you) to participate. To that end, we may incorporate one or more of these into your therapeutic journey:
My work is informed by and takes direction from these theories and philosophies:
I especially enjoy and find fulfilling my work with adults, couples and families. Specialty areas include:
Fulfilling a decades-long dream to become a psychotherapist, I hold a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. My clinical training at a community clinic in the East Bay afforded me the opportunity to work with a diverse, multi-cultural population. Bringing rich life experience to this new career, I draw from the challenges and transitions I have worked through as partner, mother, care-giver, artist, social activist, grief counselor and business owner.
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3101 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 Phone: (510) 649-9818
Clinical director is Stuart Sovatsky, PhD, MFT Licensed #MFC 19173.