We all have the potential to lead a fulfilling life. Difficult challenges may keep us from reaching that potential though, and we can find ourselves stuck in repetitive cycles of suffering. I am a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist in Santa Rosa and run a group practice where we offer individual psychotherapy and neurofeedback, all focused on the alleviation of symptoms through inner transformation.
With close attention to the unresolved emotional pain and nervous system dysregulation that drive symptoms, my associate therapists and I help clients create a more satisfying way of living, while finding the transformative potential that life's difficulties often carry.
With close attention to the unresolved emotional pain and nervous system dysregulation that drive symptoms, my associate therapists and I help clients create a more satisfying way of living, while finding the transformative potential that life's difficulties often carry.
Services
Clients often come to psychotherapy for help with symptoms associated with particular mental health issues. Although diagnosis plays an important role in psychotherapy and is required for insurance reimbursement, we look beyond your symptoms to understand what is of deepest concern to you.
We understand your symptoms in the larger context of your past, present, and what you want for the future, while drawing on your innate strengths and resilience.Clients also come to psychotherapy seeking support in resolving non-clinical, developmental life concerns, transitions, relationship issues, and shifts in identity.
We understand your symptoms in the larger context of your past, present, and what you want for the future, while drawing on your innate strengths and resilience.Clients also come to psychotherapy seeking support in resolving non-clinical, developmental life concerns, transitions, relationship issues, and shifts in identity.
We offer psychotherapy in Santa Rosa in which you have a safe, confidential space to explore what is of most concern to you. We balance learning adaptive skills for dealing with the difficult symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, or other life challenges with a focus on approaching and resolving the underlying dynamics contributing to these difficulties.
When we provide feedback to the brain we are, essentially, providing it with a mirror of its own function and 'inviting' it to make more of some frequencies and less of others. In neurofeedback, we seem to be nudging the brain to set up new oscillatory patterns that enhance both its natural complexity and its inherent and necessary bias toward self-regulation.
EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is a therapeutic approach developed by Francine Shapiro, Ph. D. in the late 1980's. Shapiro observed that highly charged memories (i.e., traumatic memories) resulting from negative life experiences become less charged with certain eye movements.
I believe that, at its core, effective and meaningful psychotherapy occurs in a trusting relationship between client and therapist-a relationship that is in great part the agent of change. I work to provide you with the safe and necessary container in which you discover hidden sources of strength, resilience, and knowing, and learn new methods and tools for facing life's challenges.
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