About Us

• Therapy can help you become your best self. Our work together will expand your awareness of yourself, your identity and your world, and we will remove obstacles to your growth and renewal, so you can be the person you want to be. You will explore - and by exploring you will transform - the pain of depression and anxiety, of "stuckness" in guilt or shame, into a more aware, productive, satisfying life. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist in private practice in Seal Beach, California, on a mission to help you reach your personal and emotional goals. I specialize in couples' therapy, trauma therapy, and problems of addiction. I also see individuals dealing with anxiety, depression, life and career transitions, and more. I am trained in a form of pre-couples'counseling known as Discernment Counseling. This particular counseling protocol was developed, and is constantly refined, by Bill Doherty of the Doherty Relationship Institute in Minnesota. It is designed to help couples who are in crisis, on the brink of separation and/or divorce. The counseling helps couples make a clear decision about whether to stay in the relationship as it is, end the relationship, or commit to intensive couples' counseling for a period of 6 months. Discernment counseling is time-limited, a highly focused process of clarifying desires and goals. It is NOT couples' counseling itself, but, rather a process couples engage in to decide whether they want to commit to longer-term couples' counseling to remake their relationship.