Offering in-person mental health services in Marin County, or Telehealth sessions from the comfort of your own home throughout California.
Working with preteens and teens with attention to the unique challenges facing boys
Boys typically arrive at therapy with a few distinct struggles:
Slipping grades or trouble at school — not caring anymore, missing work, conflicts with teachers, a kid who used to be fine suddenly isn't.
Depression or anxiety — though in boys this age it often doesn't look like sadness or worry. More often it looks like irritability, shutting down, or seeming checked out.
Anger that comes out of nowhere — blow-ups, slammed doors, a short fuse over things that didn't used to set him off.
Pulling away from activities and friends — quitting a sport or activity he used to love, spending more time alone, a friend group that's shrunk or disappeared.
While these aren’t necessarily unique to boys, boy culture often limits the places and ways boys can explore and seek support on these issues. My work is about creating a unique space to wrestle with and build skills around the challenges of adolescence.
Working with Adults
I work with adults who want their lives to feel more connected, steady, and their own. Some come in struggling with anxiety, relationship patterns, a major transition, or feeling stuck. Others are doing fine on paper and want a dependable place to slow down and make sense of what matters to them.
My approach is integrative. I draw on attachment-based and relational work, Emotion-Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems, with a trauma-informed lens, to understand how your history, your inner voices, and your present circumstances fit together. From there, we set direction together and build practical ways to integrate what we find into daily life.
I meet with adults in person in Mill Valley and by telehealth.