MFT · LPCC · SAN FRANCISCO
MFT · LPCC · SAN FRANCISCO
Our inner voice often reflects our fears or worries. This voice can rehash old stories of mistakes, tell you what could happen next or what to be concerned about. It often tells a story that is not true. This inner voice can also absorb messages we got about ourselves early in life — from family, experience, and culture — and those messages become an inner narrator that runs on autopilot.
Catching these stories and replacing them with the truth is a practice we will engage in together. This is not about positive thinking for its own sake — it is about rewiring the brain, learning to talk to yourself the way you would talk to someone you genuinely care about, and building a more honest and compassionate inner voice over time.
Anger, emotional shutdown, overwhelm, or the sense that feelings run the show rather than inform it — these are some of the most common reasons people come to me. I work with people of all backgrounds who want to understand what’s happening inside them and make more skillful choices.
Midlife, retirement, career change, relationship transitions, an empty nest, a health diagnosis — or simply the slow recognition that the life you built no longer fits. I help people move through change with intention rather than just surviving it.
Sometimes depression and anxiety look like a full, productive life with a persistent low hum of dread underneath it. I work with people who are functional but suffering — and getting curious about the parts of ourselves that are feeling nervous, scared, or hurt.
Burnout often happens to people who have worked incredibly hard for a very long time. I work with high-functioning people who have lost touch with what they actually want, who they are outside of their productivity, and what a sustainable life looks like for them.