Couples, grief, and individual therapy in Santa Rosa

Couples therapy, including the Gottman Method

In a session, we slow the moment down: I'll ask you to walk me through the argument you keep having, not to settle who was right, but to find where it turns and what each of you is really reaching for underneath it. Drawing on the Gottman Method (a research-based approach to communication, conflict, and connection), we name the pattern you keep landing in and practice a different one out loud, in the room, until it starts to feel less foreign. I work with partners at every stage and in every kind of relationship, including gay and LGBTQ+ couples, from premarital counseling to long marriages in a hard season, and we build from where you actually are, one workable change at a time. Reaching out together is often the hardest step, and you are welcome to start with a free consultation and simply see how it feels to talk.

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Individual therapy

Some people come in able to name exactly what's wrong; others just know they haven't felt like themselves in a while. Either way, we start by getting the shape of what you're carrying into words and figuring out together where the work most wants to go. The adults I see are working through anxiety, depression, life transitions, and loss, and mostly the work is talk, with me listening for the patterns running underneath what you bring. When words alone aren't enough I'm trained in Brainspotting, and I draw on psychodynamic and mindfulness-based approaches too, fitting the approach to you rather than you to a formula. You don't have to have it all figured out before you reach out, whether you're here to steady one urgent thing or to make sense of a pattern you've repeated for as long as you can remember.

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Grief and bereavement counseling

If you've lost someone, or something, you may be carrying it more quietly than you let on, unsure whether what you feel even counts as grief. It does. You don't have to explain it or tidy it up for me; often a session is simply telling me about the person, the pet, or the life you thought you'd have, and letting the missing take up as much room as it needs. Whatever the loss, a partner, a parent, a child, a friend, a pet, or one of the quieter ones that rarely get named, there is no schedule you are falling behind on and no single right way to do this. Years spent alongside people in hospice and bereavement taught me to stay steady while grief changes shape, and I will keep you company at whatever pace it takes.

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Who you'll be working with

I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (CA LMFT #139263), and I've built my practice around relationships, loss, and the ordinary hard patches of being human. My grief work is grounded in years alongside people in hospice; my couples work is grounded in Gottman Method training. You work with me directly, start to finish. No intake team and no handoffs.

In person in Santa Rosa, online across California

My office is at 5755 Mountain Hawk Drive, Suite 206, in Santa Rosa, and I see clients in person from across Sonoma County. For anyone elsewhere in California (or when getting to an office is hard), I also offer secure telehealth sessions throughout the state.

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