You may have recently discovered that your partner has been engaging in addictive or sexually compulsive behaviors. Or you may have known for a long time that something did't feel right. Whether you have decided to leave or stay, you will need support and a safe place to process all the conflicting emotions. I specialize in helping individuals and couples heal from relational traumas. This may include infidelity, addictions, and sexually compulsive behaviors. Give me a call and we can see if I am the person to help you begin healing.

As a queer, trans, or non-binary person, do you feel isolated, depressed, or anxious? Have you been through something confusing, scary, or painful that you are trying to understand, and are struggling to move past? Do you feel like you lack a sense of belonging? Experiences, changes, and shifts within your life might have caused you to feel or engage in behaviors that may be unlike yourself. I believe that in order to feel at ease and live authentically, we need to heal our wounds. Sometimes this can be scary, and together we can unearth your full potential to help you move forward. I specialize in supporting the highly sensitive and empathic members of the LGBTQ+ and transgender community who may also have people-pleasing or perfectionistic tendencies. I enjoy connecting on a human level to help you explore your gender identity, sexual orientation, and process trauma and grief, so that you can live life more authentically. Through talk and somatic therapy techniques, we can work together to bring awareness to your mind, body, and spirit. Together, we can change thought patterns that may be holding you back from feeling joy and continue the healing process. Feel free to check out my website, www.gnecenter.com, for more information and to set up a free consultation phone call to connect!

Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or just not like yourself? If your mind races, sleep feels elusive, and you're constantly drained, you're not alone. I believe everyone is doing the best they can with what they have, and that with the right support, we can all move toward greater happiness and wholeness. I'm here to help you identify and overcome the blocks that are holding you back. I specialize in working with individuals navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, and chronic health challenges. My approach is grounded in trauma-informed care and draws from EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and other evidence-based modalities. I treat the whole person, not just a list of symptoms. In addition to traditional mental health training, I hold certifications in nutrition and integrative medicine for mental health, and I often incorporate lifestyle, nutrition, and body-based practices into the healing process. If you're curious about working together, I offer a free 15-minute consultation to see if we're a good fit. I'd be honored to support you on your path toward feeling better - mind, body, and spirit.

Are you living with past trauma or navigating a significant life transition? Feeling stressed, anxious or overwhelmed as a result? Maybe a relationship has ended or a new phase of life has just begun, or perhaps you’re living with the long-term effects of abuse, assault, chronic health conditions, or another traumatic experience. You may feel unsafe and out of control of your life or emotions... anxious about even the smallest things, or like you just can’t find your footing. Despite how hard things are right now, you know there’s more to life than this. Clients come to me looking for someone who isn’t clinical or cold, but instead creates a space where they feel safe opening up about some of the most intimate parts of their lives. I will help you break down the negative thought patterns that are holding you back, build healthy coping skills, and finally put down the burdens of your past.

Relationships can be a source of love, or can cause pain, longing, and consume your time and attention. You may be unsure about staying, have repeated conflicts, or feel you're not getting the love or respect you want. You may not know the cause of your problem, anxiety, or depression, or wonder where your passion went. Perhaps you don't have the focus or motivation to accomplish your goals or you feel like you're not living the life you were meant to live. For 30 years, individuals and couples have come to me with all sorts of problems, particularly around issues of codependency, intimacy, self-esteem, and abuse. I draw on extensive personal experience and advanced clinical training in using powerful healing techniques. Clients quickly see changes and develop concrete tools to manage emotions, conflict, and boundaries. They have less anxiety and take more risks, see their self-esteem grow, and they work toward fulfilling their goals. Couples improve communication, intimacy, and ability to cooperate. As a relationship and self-esteem expert, I wrote "Codependency for Dummies" and "Conquering Shame and Codependency: 8 Steps to Free Your True Self." My approach is intuitive and personal, unique to each individual or couple. I aim to improve self-awareness, self-esteem, boundaries, communication skills, and provide tools for change. Whatever the problem, you don't have to solve it alone. Therapy takes courage, but it validates you and your desire and ability to change. You will experience relief when you understand what's going on and take steps to enrich your life, relationships, and achieve your goals.

Are you having problems communicating with your partner? Are you struggling with letting go of bad habits? Are you finding it difficult to stay in the moment when you are being intimate with your partner? I have dedicated my career to helping people live the lives they want to live, and change their life to get closer to their partners. I have a team of highly qualified licensed therapists that work as a team to support our couples at Recovery Help Now, Inc. Recovery Help Now offers online and in-person therapy. We see individuals, couples and facilitate groups (for both men and women). Please feel free to contact Recovery Help Now with questions or concerns. It's time to live your best life.

My approach begins with a real conversation that builds on itself to create rapport and trust with the individual or couple so that we can feel comfortable while talking about difficult and challenging personal matters. I am curious to find out what specifically the person or couple came to therapy for? What are they curious about, wanting to explore or change or confront in themselves or their relationship? We then flesh this out, to get a fuller and more detailed picture of their issues. We formulate 1, 2 or 3 priorities to focus. My therapeutic approach involves a psycho-dynamic and emotion focused approach, that sets out to understand the source of the problem, how it developed and how it's being habitually maintained? From here we begin to develop creative strategies on how to address and interrupt these patterns and replace them with healthier ways of being? I am particularly interested in accessing the individual'scouple's habitual ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that reinforces the very problems and patterns that they want to change. This provides us with an experiential understanding and knowing of how they have come to be where they are. We are then much better equipped to address their emotional triggers and negative feedback loops (blaming communication-patterns). We work together to develop a deeper more vulnerable way for the individualcouple to talk and listen to one another, a more reliable and skillful means of relating from themselves to their loved ones. As the therapy progresses the individual or members of a couple learn to find their courage and trust in the process to confront 'old deep hurts and angers,' within themselves or their relationship, and learn how to more constructively navigate these troubled areas.

The therapeutic process has the ability to transform. I am living proof of this. At my lowest point, I was anxious, depressed, suicidal, and trapped in addictions. With the help of a skilled therapist, I was able to come out of this darkness - inspiring me to leave the business world in order to help others who are suffering. I believe that everyone deserves a fighting chance to overcome trauma and abuse and live a rich, full, and satisfying life. I believe that we can change and grow at any time in our lives. I believe in the beauty, resiliency, and strength of the human spirit. I believe that we are all worthy and capable of love. I see children and adults who are experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, strains in romantic and family relationships, low self-esteem and body image, unhealthy coping habits, and grief and loss. I specialize in helping clients navigate through different life transitions, including birth, divorce, parenting, job and profession changes, and sobriety. My particular areas of focus include: attachment therapy, helping children and their parents deal with co-parenting, divorce and blended families; healing from narcissistic abuse in parental and romantic relationships; stabilizing in recovery from alcohol and other substances. I also have extensive experience in dealing with domestic abuse in its many forms.

"Sometimes... you need more than a friend...." I am the founder of a group of very well trained and experienced therapists known as the LA Trauma Therapy Specialists. We have committed our practices to helping women, teens, children, adults, couples and families in coping with trauma and life crises. We deal with women's issues, life transitions, depression and anxiety problems, adultteenchild childhood abuse survivors, rapesexual assault, child sexual abuse, incest, victims of violent crimes, suicidehomicide survivors, and other trauma related concerns. Many of the people who come to us struggle with a lot of anxiety, sometimes panic attacks, self-esteem issues, nightmares, trouble concentrating, avoidance of feelings or experience an intensity of feelings that can feel overwhelming. We work together to help you get your life back on track and will provide you with the support and unique treatment strategies that will really make the difference for you! As a feminist therapist I try to offer an empowering woman-centered approach to help women find their voice and sense of self again! Men and women who want to explore identity issues, phase of life problems, help with trauma-related or childhood abuse problems, anxiety, depression, sexual or gender identity concerns, and want a longer-term, very confidential approach to therapy are my specialties. We offer a very warm, comfortable space to enable you to explore whatever issues you bring to your therapy. We use a variety of different therapeutic techniques to assist you in your journey. We use a variety of creative approaches such as different art techniques, game play, sandplay therapy, different homework assignments aimed at helping you grow individually, etc. I use Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma survivors and people who want to improve the quality of their life. Many people have self-defeating beliefs that interfere in their daily lives. Sometimes it interferes with achieving success, being happy with their lives that otherwise is a good experience, or interfere in being able to be more intimate with loved ones and friends. In addition, TAT and EFT are extremely helpful in gently reducing anxiety and intense emotional experiences without having to intensely relieve past or present events. We offer a FREElow fee initial consultation that will enable you to see if I, or one of my excellent and amazing other colleagues are a good fit for you! Sanity for the Insanity of Life!

As a Marriage and Family Therapist, Clinical Art Therapist, and Somatic Psychologist, I offer pathways to healing and well-being within the context of a safe, supportive, and relational environment. With 30 years of experience in private practice, residential and outpatient treatment, my work with clients is integrative, attuned, interactive, and holistic. My work as a psychotherapist draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, including psychodynamic, Jungian, humanistic, transpersonal, and family systems, approaches to psychotherapy, a focus on wellness through mind body integration, art therapy, clinical hypnosis, guided imagery, somatic experiencing, meditation, and mind body medicine.

In these stressful times of uncertainly and loss, it can feel overwhelming and hard navigate all of life's responsibilities. It can be especially challenging if you're already in the midst of a life transition. Whether you just had a new baby, recently got married or divorced, are experiencing conflict within your relationship, went through a traumatic event, such as a sexual assault, medical crisis or death, or just want to gain a better understanding of yourself and your place in the world, I can offer support and expertise. Collaboration, awareness, and transformation are key components to my therapy practice. I work hard to build trust, safety and comfort, respecting each client's individuality. My training in attachment theory, somatic interventions and neurobiology will help to aid our work and heal the wounds of relationships and traumas while building healthy coping skills. We will work mindfully, integrating our bodies, breath and physical selves whenever possible, aiming to deepen the mind and body connection. Reaching out to a new therapist can often feel anxiety provoking. That first phone call or email is the hardest part! I aim to make the process as comfortable as possible, while making sure we're a good fit. I offer a free phone consultation to help with the transition.

I help people achieve greater insight into their lives. I cultivate an environment in which we can find more options that can lead to new and diverse patterns and experiences. In my approach to helping, we work together to identify old coping mechanisms which are no longer serving you well. I strive to establish a space in which we can safely evaluate which dynamics are working for you in your life, and how to let go of old defenses and patterns, which might be harmful.