Online Therapy for Adults in California for People of Color, South Asians, AAPI, Immigrants, Queer

INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

Sometimes life throws you one curve ball after another. As the demands, losses, and disappointments pile on, your capacity to think, to make decisions, to be present, and to feel joy is compromised.

You don't have to go it alone.
Therapy can help you get back on solid ground.

Therapy is a relationship built on a foundation of confidentiality. The therapy relationship is one in which you can feel seen and heard fully. Within the context of a compassionate, kind, and authentic relationship with me, you can experience new ways of relating without being concerned about judgements, distractions, or taking care of the other person in the room. You can trust therapy to be your safe place where you are free to explore your thoughts and feelings, and to engage your natural curiosity to challenge assumptions and try-on new perspectives. Therapy is quiet time to reflect on yourself and your life experiences, know yourself in a deeper way, and discover your path for your future.

Does this sound like you?

Despite your accomplishments and success, you can't shake feeling anxiety and self-doubt.
You wonder why your tried and true way of compartmentalizing stress and coping with challenges is no longer working.
You are struggling to understand how to change destructive patterns that keep sabotaging your relationships.
Sometimes surges of unexpected and intense emotions, especially anger, derail your best intentions.
Although you are an expert in meeting other people's needs, you feel unable to identify or get your own needs met.

If this resonates with you, I can help you.

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Special Areas of Focus

Self-Actualization

You’ve made it! You’ve got the career, the relationships, the lifestyle — BUT — you're keenly aware of your stuck spots, and you don’t know how to get yourself unstuck. A stuck spot could show up as boredom, emptiness, self-esteem issues, anxiety, difficulty making decisions, disconnection, feeling like an imposter, creative blocks. You and I work together to get to the root, so you can grow into the full, unconstrained you; feel fulfillment and vitality; and connect to people, your life, and your SELF!

Life Transitions

Whether it’s launching a new career, graduating college or beginning graduate school, moving, committing to a relationship or breaking-up, becoming a parent, etc., life transitions are times when we shift and make adjustments that are opportunities to review where you’ve been, explore where you are headed, and experience yourself in new ways. Transitions involve loss and open up anxieties. As we work together, you will be able to embrace CHANGE while standing firmly on the ground beneath your feet!

Racial and Cultural Identity

Immigrants, 1st- and 2nd-generation Americans are faced with a complicated balancing act: adapting to a new culture and norms and staying connected to their native culture. Immigration and acculturation involves finding your way in a new land while grieving the loss of your ancestral home, family, community, language, etc. You feel like an outsider. Family expectations regarding cultural norms, values, and traditional gender roles collide with your longing to fit-in, straining family relationships and worsening the sense of isolation and lack of belonging. You feel pulled apart and confused about who you are and how you want to show up in the world. Through our work together, you will be able to DEFINE the you, that feels like you!

Racial / Cultural Trauma

Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) suffer profound emotional harm from deeply ingrained racist inequalities that exist in our systems and institutions. Aside from historical and ongoing violence and disenfranchisement, they suffer from ingesting a regular diet of microaggressions. These experiences leave BIPOC feeling unsafe, anxious, angry, diminished, and shame, and which over time, become internalized oppressive beliefs. These beliefs distort identity and undermine self-esteem and confidence, so it’s harder to form and maintain healthy relationships and to succeed in school and job. Together we explore your experiences, emotions, and beliefs, so you feel EMPOWERED to engage in your relationships, work, school, community and life!

GENERAL EXPERTISE

Acculturation and Experience of Immigration
Anxiety and Panic
Breaking Up with a Partner
Building Self-Esteem and Reducing Self-Criticism
Career Transition
Communication and Assertiveness
Couples Therapy and Marriage Counseling
Grief and Loss
Identity Development: Cultural, Racial & Gender

Impact of Oppression and Marginalization
Life Transitions
Managing Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome
Navigating Family Dynamics and Expectations
Race-Based Trauma
Self-Actualization and Personal Growth
Understanding Emotions (e.g. sadness, anger, resentment)
Work-Life Balance and Stress

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