Hello and nice to meet you!! A little about me is that I graduated from UC Berkeley and USC and have worked for many years serving clients across the mental health spectrum. Whether with clients in private health care settings or through my role at UCSF in the Psych E.R. services, I like to take a mindful, holistic, and trauma-informed approach and uses various tools to create a unique, adaptive path when working with a Client.
When someone experiences an impactful life stressor and/or trauma, I believe in taking the time to help them not only process, but to also heal and feel empowered after. Because each individual is multifaceted and has their own set of feelings and experiences, I use various tools such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness, Psychodynamic, Goal Oriented Therapy, Problem Solving Therapy, visualizations, breathing techniques, Gestalt/Humanistic, etc to help.
-Understand and process negative thoughts and feelings and replace them with positive thought patterns, behaviors, and overall coping mechanisms.
-Offering acceptance, direct communication, empathy, and guidance as Clients work on growth and change.
-Learning how to better regulate in order to improve one's relationship to oneself as well as others.
