I am a board-certified psychotherapist providing telehealth in California and New Jersey. I specialize in treating anxiety, depression, grief and loss, ADHD, autism spectrum and neurodiversity and relationship challenges.
In the therapy work, we will design a plan forward that includes your specific emotional, physical and mental health needs. Taking into consideration your strengths and challenges the therapy will explore themes such as your self-narrative, effective communication and the quality of awareness and presence you want to experience in your life.
Applying evidence-based tools and strategies, my treatment approach integrates psychoanalytic relational theory, DBT, AEDP and somatic embodiment theory and practices. These foundational psychological treatment approaches comprehensively apply cutting edge cognitive and neuroscientific concepts to help inform the path through change to gain an overall sense of dynamic balance and well-being.
You can expect to develop foundational observation skills to enhance self-awareness to improve your inner control of attention and subsequent behavior which offers a range of new possibilities and choice points to contribute to your personal development. I will show you how to manage distressing emotions and learn effective strategies to improve interpersonal communication. By enhancing lateral thinking abilities for creative problem solving and executive functioning planning there are limitless opportunities to create the life you have envisioned for yourself.
I am the mother of three children. As a somatic embodiment enthusiast I seek to explore and map the inner and outer atmospheric dimensions of experience. Someday I endeavor to join the oneironaut ranks to lucid dream with others beings. I obtained my Master's degree at California Institute for Integral Studies, a holistically oriented, progressive university based in San Francisco and I have been licensed 23+ years.
I am currently completing my Ph.D. coursework at California Institute for Integral Studies in the Transformative Inquiry Department. My research explores how human embodiment internally informs our ability to sense the experience of non-human sentience and seeks to draw from the phenomenological and hermeneutic dimensions of embodiment. I am an avid advocate for subverting human exceptionalism to elevate and advance our ethical responsibility towards harmoniously co-existing with other co-experient creatures and plants inside the earth.
FOR A NEW BEGINNING
In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.
For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.
Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
By John O’Donohue