Compassionate Therapy and Trauma-informed Care to Help You Achieve Balance

A proven dynamic relationship exists between your thoughts, emotions, and physical well-being. What affects one undeniably affects the others. That is why mind-body connection therapy is so powerful.

Whether you struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma, or any other mental health challenge, the health of both your mind and body is affected.

Rather than only addressing one aspect of your wellness, we’ll take a holistic approach, collaborating to fully understand the root of your discomfort. Using an integrative approach, we’ll work together to restore harmony to your body and mind so you can live your best, most fulfilling life.

Holistic Care for Adults Longing to Restore Wellness Inside and Out

As a Registered Nurse, I understand the value of conventional medical treatment. However, healing goes far beyond a rushed appointment and prescription. Personalized and integrative mind-body medicine, talk therapy, functional medicine, and expressive arts go a long way in helping you restore balance to your body, mind, and soul.

Through empathic and understanding mind-body therapy, I can partner with you to work through:

  • Trauma
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Burnout
  • Stress disorders, including PTSD
  • Abuse (physical, psychological, spiritual)
  • Spiritual phenomena

There is hope. No matter what you’ve been through, I’m here to help.

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My clientele includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  • First responders
  • Healthcare workers
  • Other helping professions
  • Trauma survivors
  • Those who have been involved in cults
  • Individuals experiencing spiritual phenomena

If you seek genuine healing through mind-body connection therapy, I know how to help. I’ve been through it, so I know it’s entirely possible.

What to Expect From Therapy With Me

Therapy is not something I do for you. Instead, it is a collaborative process in which we work together toward common goals.

While I am trained in various therapeutic methods and modalities, as your online therapist in California, I’m not here to solve your problems—I’m here to help you solve them. You bring your struggles and challenges to me, and we’ll work on them together.

After all, you know yourself best. I’m here to provide insight and arm you with the tools and strategies to help you make the best decisions for your life.

Our sessions together will be collaborative, comfortable, honest, and goal-oriented. But that’s not where all the magic happens – it happens in between sessions when you put into practice what we talk about in therapy.

That means you must be committed to doing the work. 

Together, we can create a path to help you truly heal, one session at a time.

My Therapy Approach

One of the most important things to understand about therapy with me is that it will be tailored specifically to you. Depending on your individual needs, I will use various therapeutic styles to help you achieve balance in your body and mind.

These approaches include the following:

Motivational Interviewing (MI)

This person-centered, collaborative therapeutic approach allows you to explore and resolve your uncertainty about changing certain behaviors. I will support and strengthen your motivation and commitment to change through:

  • empathetic and reflective listening
  • revealing how your behavior and goals are misaligned
  • rolling with your resistance
  • supporting your belief in yourself that you can change

This approach wonderfully aligns with my therapy approach in that I won’t tell you how to change. Instead, you’ll gain the strength and ability to change independently.

Positive Psychology

Using this approach, we’ll focus on enhancing your well-being by building your strengths, positive emotions, and positive life experiences. This is a powerful therapeutic method because it focuses on your strengths, rather than issues you may be experiencing. The goal here is to help you thrive, rather than just survive.

Psychodynamic Therapy

We’ll use psychodynamic therapy to help you gain insight into unresolved conflicts and patterns. This approach explores unconscious thoughts, feelings, and past experiences to help you understand your current behavior and emotional struggles. Psychodynamic therapy can increase your self-awareness and emotional insight, which can lead to long-term growth and change.

Trauma-Informed Care

If you suffer from past trauma, you need a gentle, caring, and safe approach to help you heal. Trauma-informed care recognizes the widespread impact trauma has on your life and prioritizes safety, trust, and empowerment. As your online therapist in California, I’ll meet you where you are with compassion, understanding, and without judgment.

Somatic Psychology

As mentioned earlier, trauma, stress, and emotions affect both the mind and body. Somatic psychology focuses on this connection and how physical sensations, posture, and movement relate to emotional and psychological well-being. Your body is a resource for emotional resilience, insight, and healing. Using this approach, we’ll work together to help you harness your inner strength.

Expressive Arts Therapy

Therapy doesn’t have to involve only talking with one another. It can also involve creative processes like painting, dancing, writing, and music. Expressive arts therapy helps you explore your emotions, reduce stress, and promote healing through artistic expression.

“Creativity is always a path to healing.”

~ Julia Cameron

Together, We’ll Develop a Plan Forward That Works for You

The physical and emotional pain you feel stems from your unique experiences as well as your biological makeup. To heal, you must be motivated and open to understanding what exactly is causing you pain without solely relying on a pill to make you better.

As your collaborative online therapist in California, I’ll help you uncover how we can restore you to health and resilience together.

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Some of the questions we may address include:

  • How do you define health and wellness?
  • What is missing in your life?
  • How are you contributing to your poor health?
  • Are you willing to commit to healing?

These questions may sound overwhelming and challenging, but we’ll work through them and more together as a team. It takes work, but I can tell you, from personal experience, that it is worth it.

What Sets Me Apart as an Online Therapist in California

The foundation of my online therapy practice is set on the understanding that your mind, body, and spirit are linked. Even if you don’t have a spiritual practice at the moment, you undoubtedly seek a sense of purpose or connection to something larger than yourself.

Your thoughts, emotions, physical actions, sensations, and sense of purpose are all part of who you are. 

As both a Registered Nurse and Mind-Body Therapist, I treat both the body and mind. I fully understand the link between them. Certain physical conditions can contribute to mental health symptoms and disorders. And mental and spiritual challenges can also lead to physical health problems.

If you’re looking for:

  • someone to actively listen to what is troubling you,
  • someone who can provide a thorough education about your condition,
  • professional insight and a research-based understanding of your diagnosis and your options,
  • a referral to a medical specialist,

I can help.

Mind-body connection therapy is holistic care, and it is incredibly powerful. As your therapist, my goal is not to “fix” you. Why? Because you have the power within you to heal. My job is to guide and support you in “fixing” yourself.

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Benefits of Online Therapy With Me

You long for change. Together, we’ll make it happen.

As your online therapist in California, through mind-body therapy, we’ll look at your problems differently and take a different approach to achieving wellness. Relying on a bag of pharmaceuticals can create an endless cycle of treating one symptom while creating others, requiring even more prescriptions.

That is not health. Health is what you define it as. And we’ll figure that out together.

Collaboratively, I’ll empower you to:

Gain insight and self-awareness

Create an actionable plan for wellness and real change

Solve problems effectively

Feel greater self-worth

Learn to use your talents and abilities

Heal from what is causing your anxiety, depression, or trauma

You deserve to live life on your terms, not under the thumb of depression, anxiety, or trauma.

Together, we can work toward self-empowerment, life-fulfillment, and, ultimately, your ability to live your best life.