Oakland Walnut Creek Bay Area Therapist

Your everyday stress has increased to a point where you don't remember what joy and peace feel like.

You know you need to heal in order to move forward from a painful past, but it feels like “too much” to go there.

Your relationships feel like constant stress, leaving you tired, misunderstood, and trapped.

You’ve hit a wall in talk therapy and still live with significant anxiety, depression, or sleep issues.

You’re not even sure where to begin—you just know something has to change.

You’ve “done all the right things” (therapy, self-care, boundaries) but still feel stuck in the same patterns.

You’re exhausted from carrying everyone else’s needs and want a place where you can finally exhale.

You did everything "right", why do you feel "wrong, not good enough" and unfulfilled?

You feel anger, guilt, fear, shame or a deep sense of avoidance when you have to interact with family of origin.

Your loved ones tell you that you worry too much and you feel alienated and alone even with supportive friends, family and partners.

You love the money and status of your career but you know the culture is killing you slowly.

You tend to take on a little too much, a little too often, feel burnt out, emotionally drained or regularly experience somatic symptoms of stress like headaches, difficulty sleeping, difficulty relaxing, irritation.

You find yourself driven by the need to feel productive and successful, but notice that the cost of your ambition leaves you feeling drained and disconnected, drinking alcohol and using drugs, or engaging in other escapist activities in ways that feel harmful. 

Resting has become scrolling on devices and zoning out in front of the TV, and you live with a sense of disgust and entrapment by your inability to stop engaging in activities you know aren't truly serving you.

You feel confused by an intense need to have alone time while also craving connection, or you find that the more intimate your relationships become, the more challenging or even irritating you find them as opposed to the happiness and fulfillment you desire.

You feel a sense of accomplishment when you review your life - the kids, the marriage, the dog, the houses, the career - and yet, there's a nagging sense of dread or emptiness which accompanies these joys.

You feel externally settled but internally you feel chaotic and emotionally unstable - maybe it is time to face that past experience, that unbearable pain, that loss, that violation of trust in other or trust in self.

You experienced acute or prolonged bullying in elementary or middle school or at the hands of an older sibling/relative.