Find a Therapist in Rolling Hills Estates, CA

My approach is warm, empathic, and interactive, and I tailor sessions to meet your unique therapy needs. Together, we will explore your personal values so you can make choices that feel authentic—rather than fear-based—and create a more meaningful, fulfilling life. I specialize in: • Anxiety therapy (generalized anxiety, panic, stress management) • Life transitions (divorce, dating, premarital counseling, marriage, career shifts, parenting changes) • Depression and relationship issues I believe that healthy relationships with others begin with building a stronger, more compassionate relationship with yourself. My goal is to help you reduce anxiety, gain insight, and move toward lasting change.

I specialize in working with adult individuals and couples, facing challenges with relationships and divorce, coping with anxiety and depression, and navigating life's myriad challenges. I also work with executives and professionals helping them understand how their inner world affects their professional effectiveness and efficiency. All of my work is grounded in evidenced-based treatments including: DBT (dialectical behavior therapy), CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), PCM (Process Communications Model) and value-oriented and mindfulness-based approaches—tailored to best fit the needs of my clients. I am empathic, direct, and dedicated to your progress. Together we’ll achieve the changes you desire and need as quickly as you need it.

You may be feeling exhausted by the same painful patterns repeating in your relationship. Perhaps conversations turn into arguments, trust has been damaged, emotional closeness has faded, or despite loving one another, you feel increasingly alone together. You may also be carrying stress, anxiety, or personal pain that is affecting how you relate to the people you care about most. When people reach out for therapy, it is often not because they have failed, it is because something important matters enough to seek help. My role is to help you understand what is happening beneath the surface of the conflict, distance, or distress. Often the visible problem is only part of the story. Underneath recurring arguments or emotional shutdown are patterns shaped by unmet needs, protective reactions, old wounds, and ways of coping that once made sense but no longer serve the relationship. In our work together, I help you slow the cycle down, understand it more clearly, and begin responding differently. Therapy becomes a place where blame can soften, communication can improve, and meaningful change can begin. If we are working as a couple, I help each partner feel more understood while also creating accountability for the changes needed to move forward. If I am working with you individually, I help you identify recurring patterns, strengthen boundaries, process emotional pain, and build a more grounded relationship with yourself and others. My style is warm, thoughtful, and engaged. I am compassionate, but I am also active in the process. I will help guide conversations, notice patterns that may be difficult to see from the inside, and offer practical ways to create change. Clients often appreciate that our work is not only supportive, but purposeful. I draw from evidence-based and relational approaches, including attachment-based therapy, emotionally focused work, systems thinking, and practical communication strategies. Rather than forcing people into a formula, I tailor therapy to the needs of the person or couple sitting in front of me. Healing often begins when people feel understood and challenged in the right ways at the same time. If your relationship feels stuck, distant, or strained, meaningful change is possible.

My approach is strength based, collaborative and empowering. Through our work together you will gain insight into yourself and your relationships, and you will feel supported as you try to grow into the person you want to be. As a psychologist and art therapist I have devoted 30 years to supporting the wellbeing of others. I look forward to getting to know your unique story and walking with you on your path to a more fulfilled life.

Trauma-informed, Attachment Theory based couples counseling and sex therapy, located in Old Town Pasadena.

Do you feel unstable, lost, or confused? Is your anxiety and or depression spinning out of control? With your collaboration, I can assist you and give you the tools to find happiness and trust in yourself and life path again. I can help you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and what is triggering you, and provide skills to help you manage your reactions to the stress and difficulties in your life. Reconnecting you with your joy and full potential is at the core of my healing practice. Change occurs through self-awareness and the ability to be able to give yourself what you need and feel safe. I work from a creative and collaborative perspective utilizing various somatic, psychodynamic, trauma informed, and mindfulness approaches. I'll create a caring environment for you to share whatever is on your mind and in your heart. Together we'll explore your concerns in their complexity. The more you discover, the more your awareness grows, allowing self-compassion and inner wisdom to emerge and be your ultimate guide. "You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop" ---Rumi

You may be used to holding everything together for everyone else. Lately, though, you feel anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or simply unlike yourself. Maybe motherhood has brought changes you weren’t prepared for, or you and your partner keep having the same painful conversation. You don’t have to figure it all out on your own. At Best Life Counseling Services, we offer a warm, thoughtful space where you can be honest about what’s happening without feeling judged or rushed. Our therapists support women navigating anxiety, burnout, pregnancy, postpartum life, and other transitions. We also work with couples who want to feel more connected as they adjust to parenthood and the demands of everyday life. We’ll start by getting to know you, what feels hardest right now, what matters to you, and what you hope will change. Together, we’ll make sense of the patterns keeping you stuck and find practical ways to move forward. We’ll meet you with compassion, ask meaningful questions, and help you build on the strengths you already have. Whether this is your first time in therapy or you’re returning during a new season of life, we want you to feel heard, supported, and more able to care for yourself and your relationships.

I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY26266) in private practice in Calabasas, California. My approach to therapy is warm, perceptive, and refreshingly direct. I believe meaningful change begins with understanding ourselves more deeply—but insight is most powerful when it helps us move forward. I create a space where clients feel genuinely seen and understood while also being encouraged to explore new perspectives. I aim to balance compassion with candor, helping clients recognize their strengths, better understand their patterns, and approach life with greater clarity, confidence, and courage. At the heart of my work is a belief in human potential—helping clients not only understand where they have been, but recognize who they are, what they are capable of, and how they want to move forward.

Whole Wellness Therapy is an evidence-based practice, comprised of experienced therapists who offer a compassionate approach to facing life’s challenges together. We help people change their lives, their relationships, and even their brains, as we uncover all the different facets contributing to the “stuckness” we can all so easily find ourselves in. The best thing about our therapists, is that they’re all human too! We treat our relationships with our clients as an opportunity to grow alongside each other, through this shared experience of humanness on our continued quest to wholeness. As we continue to expand our education, knowledge, and experience, we empower our clients to become experts of their own lives.

My mission as a therapist is to affirm the best in you. I believe that as human beings, we require a sense of safety and affirmation in order to take the courageous step of examining our own lives, even those aspects that are painful. I seek to create that safety with a warm, collaborative, and down-to-earth approach to treatment. The services I provide are trauma-focused and identity-affirming. I use interventions from a number of philosophies, including internal family systems, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), attachment theory, and the existential tradition. Throughout my work, I have helped many first-time or initially reluctant, participants overcome paralyzing anxieties, insecurities, and heartbreaks they once believed would be a part of their lives forever. Reach out when you feel ready to start the healing journey!

We all contain a force that strives for self-realization. When we nurture this force, we find positive ways of existing within and experiencing the world around this. We gain the strength necessary to tolerate stress and conflict. Without support, though, we may adopt unhealthy ways of surviving that directly counter how we wish to be. I offer a blend of psychotherapy that focuses on self-acceptance and self-discovery as the tools for emotional, behavioral, and social development. I have a deep respect for you and for the struggles that have become the way you learned to survive in the world. I believe in your ability to grow and heal. It is important that my clients feel understood and seen. I'll meet you where you are, nurturing your awareness of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. By building insight and getting plenty of support, you can make positive choices, bounce back from conflict, and access your strengths. I work to help clients cope with, manage, and resolve fear, anxiety, anger, guilt, depression, low self-esteem, and shame. My background in music makes me especially sensitive to the artist's struggles for authenticity and self-confidence. In a sense, I help clients find their "voice" in the areas of emotional impairment. I also understand the challenges of creative blocks and the difficulties of navigating the business world's highs and lows.

I hold a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy, which has equipped me with the knowledge and expertise to address a wide range of emotional and relational issues. My education and ongoing training allow me to provide evidence-based therapeutic interventions and support tailored to your unique needs. Deciding if it's the right time for therapy can be a deeply personal choice. If you're experiencing emotional distress, facing life transitions, or struggling with relationships, therapy can be a beneficial resource. It's essential to acknowledge your own readiness and willingness to engage in the therapeutic process. Therapy can be a powerful tool for personal growth and healing. In my practice, I incorporate several therapeutic modalities, including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). EMDR is an evidence-based therapy used to treat trauma, anxiety, and other emotional distress. It involves a structured eight-phase approach, including assessment, desensitization, and reprocessing, helping individuals process and heal from distressing experiences.