Individual therapy in Los Angeles, CA

Individual therapy in Los Angeles and online in California.

I work well with adults who are seeking individual therapy for the following concerns:

Anxiety

• Reduce and manage stress, worry and fear.

• Identify and decrease the physical symptoms of anxiety (e.g., rapid heart rate, sweating, difficulty breathing, body aches, dizziness, and numbness or tingling in your hands/feet ).

• Let go of overthinking.

• Learn and utilize grounding and relaxation skills to connect to the present moment, gain clarity, and feel calmer.

Codependency

• Increase self-esteem & self-worth.

• Learn and implement healthy relationship boundaries.

• Release the need to control, save or manage other people.

• Create an identity beyond helping others, pleasing others, or being needed.

• Learn to ask for help.

• Identify & express your feelings and needs.

Domestic Violence & Abuse

• Heal from current or past intimate partner violence. For more information on this issue, please visit domestic violence counseling.

• Process distressing childhood memories of experiencing or witnessing domestic violence or abuse. For more information on this issue, please visit childhood trauma therapy for adults.

• Seek support and information in order to better support a friend or family member who is in an abusive relationship.

Grief & Loss

• Grieve the death of a loved one.

• Process feelings after experiencing a miscarriage.

• Recover from the loss of a relationship (e.g., after a divorce or breakup).

• Start over after a job or career loss.

Life Transitions & Changes

• Master "adulting" and the transition into adulthood.

• Decide whether to relocate, marry, or have children.

• Navigate a job or career change.

• Adjust to a new role as a spouse, parent, or caretaker.

Relationship Issues

• Recover from a breakup or divorce.

• Decide whether to stay or leave a relationship.

• Clarify current relationship wants or need.

• Cope with being single or the challenges of dating.

• Identify and deconstruct relationship dynamics and patterns that are holding you back.

Self-Esteem & Self-Worth

• Identify interests and strengths.

• Build confidence.

• Challenge negative self-talk and self-criticism.

• Practice self-compassion.

• Develop assertiveness.

• Set healthy boundaries.

Trauma & PTSD

• Heal from a single traumatic event (e.g.,a natural disaster, car accident, or violent crime).

• Work through complex trauma which occurs from multiple traumatic events over a period of time (e.g., domestic violence or abuse, childhood physical or sexual abuse, childhood emotional neglect, bullying, harassment, racism or discrimination).

Women’s Issues

Explore and process the challenges of being a woman in today's society (e.g., gender discrimination, sexual harassment, infertility, miscarriage, post-partum depression, domestic violence, sexual abuse, work/life balance, people pleasing, perfectionism, and aging).