Psychotherapy with us looks a lot like being believed for what your experiences are. Many of our clients come in with anxieties, guilt, anger, and loneliness at the forefront of their lives. Throughout the course of therapy, our clients feel that they have the capacity to walk themselves through these experiences so they no longer feel dominated by the same persistent stress, worries, and knee-jerk reactions.
Our therapists specialize in providing trauma-informed, non-pathological, and identity-affirming individual and couples therapy for adults, teens, couples, siblings, and families. We offer weekly and biweekly sessions, available both virtually and in person. Some common themes we address include healing from the impact of emotionally immature parents, supporting neurodiverse relationships with neurodivergent partners, Asian American and AAPI intergenerational trauma as well as anxiety, self-esteem issues, and challenges related to body image and relationships with exercise and food. Explore our therapy services below and the specific issues we work with in each service category.
Create space between yourself and other parts of you that want different things
Getting curious, compassionate, and patient with every part of your experience
Body-centered, works with affect regulation and creates lasting neurological shifts/change
Healthy boundaries and relationship with yourself means healthy relationships with others
Following cues from our autonomic nervous system, we can identify three stages of arousal: Relaxed, Mobilized, and Immobilized
By identifying which of the three states we're in and, at times, occupying two states at once, we can adopt and tailor the most helpful responses, enabling us to regulate our emotions and behaviors
Understanding the neurophysiological basis of our social behavior, stress responses, and emotional experiences can increase feelings of safety and connection, supporting overall mental health
Emphasizing your own agency in reaching clarity, direction, and way of being
Becoming really good at spotting your natural abilities and inclinations
Learning to move towards and prioritize potentials for growth
Examining immediate and default thoughts and gut feelings
Identifying core beliefs and assumptions
Actively cultivating and practicing new communicative and problem-solving skills
Experiment with new behaviors
Rooted in attachment theory, the connection, belonging, and safety we seek in our most intimate relationships are also true for ourselves with the different identities within us.
Understanding emotions as trailheads to insight and self-awareness, we recognize them as organically adaptive to basic human needs like survival and our motivational systems. They can be resourced to bond us more deeply or cut us off from one another, usually to protect and defend vulnerabilities.
The key to moving through and out of reactive and rigid patterns is to slow down enough to notice yourself and your partner through a nonjudgmental lens and create safety where hidden parts can be spoken for and received without shame in the relationship.
Although emotions are often the primary target, somatic states, cognitions, and behaviors are an active part of the process, carrying powerful information about the change we long for.
A research-based model that accurately predicts ongoing patterns and outcomes of intimate relationships, this approach emphasizes the importance of having a healthy dialogue about conflict rather than only problem-solving.
Learn how to manage solvable and perpetual conflict through increased empathy, compromise, and successful repair.
Deepen your friendship and intimacy by learning to respond to your partner's pleas for connection and increasing your awareness of your partner's world.
Enhance shared values and meaning of your lives through rituals of connection as a couple and within your family.
