Founded in 1973, Pacific Center for Human Growth is the oldest LGBTQIA+ center in the Bay Area, the third oldest in the nation, and operates the only sliding scale mental health clinic for LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC people and their families in Alameda County. To enhance the mental health and overall well-being of the LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC communities by providing culturally responsive therapy, peer to peer support groups, community outreach services, and facilitated workshops. To incorporate strong social justice and trauma-informed frameworks in our clinical training and peer-to-peer support programs that contribute to equitable mental health service delivery. To provide the most comprehensive care possible for all who seek our services.
I offer individual and partner counseling sessions, with a specialty in helping clients navigate relationships. Distress from social, familial, and intimate relationships can be a source of much unhappiness and a sense that things are not going as well as they could be. My knowledge of and practice in a number of methods ensures that clients get a tailored experience of self discovery and relationship support.
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Wise Mind Institute (WMI) is a private practice therapy group offering personalized mental healthcare in the Bay Area and across California. Our team of highly trained clinicians—including licensed therapists and clinical psychologists—provides a wide range of psychotherapy services grounded in both holistic practices and evidence-based approaches. Our clinicians have expertise and experience in psychodynamic, humanistic, and evidence-based therapies. We specialize in DBT therapy (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), RO-DBT (Radically Open DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and mindfulness-based interventions, supporting teens, adults, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, emotion dysregulation, relationship challenges, and life transitions. With a growing team of 15+ clinicians and a warm, client-centered approach, we’re committed to helping you build insight, develop effective coping skills, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Sessions are 75 minutes. I offer longer sessions than the typical psychotherapy time because I provide different modalities along with dialogue. Including bodywork; studying how your thoughts relate to gestures and movement; Sandtray; drawing; or EMDR. Plus I just like to provide a little more time in sessions. Somatic psychotherapy is a way of working that supports the brain's development; it is an "experience-dependent" process. And experience takes time. Having experiences, and studying experiences. We study experience by crossing the 'body-mind interface.' Together we study your experience by noticing your thoughts... sensations... feelings... memories... desires... sensations... beliefs... imagination... and how these different aspects of *you* relate and inform each other. Together we seek to strengthen your 'creative resources' (to support you in doing more of what you already do well). And we seek new options for your life and experience. The body is brought into the psychotherapeutic process because thinking is not only an abstract function, it is also expressed physically. The result of working somatically in psychotherapy is an increase in communication between parts -- your brain, heart, breath, muscles, sensing, feeling, and action. This in turn leads to a more engaged and fulfilling life.
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