California Virtual Therapy

Rediscover your confidence and joy; specialized therapy for people pleasers and perfectionists

Am I the therapist for you?

Are you a stressed out, burnt out, helping professional trying to navigate your personal and professional life with success?

Do you frequently overthink and find yourself stuck in the perfectionism-procrastination trap?

Do you regularly experience feelings of guilt, shame, overwhelm and anxiety?

Do you have a habit of absorbing emotion from others, almost feeling like you can’t feel better until someone else does?

Is self care something you struggle to prioritize or struggle to consistently implement?

Do you want to create a vibey life for yourself; one where you’re not constantly dissociating into your phone as the hours pass you by?

Do you want your self worth to depend on how YOU feel about YOU, and not on how others feel about you or define you?

Do you want to work with a therapist that keeps it real, that welcomes ALL TOPICS, no-judgment, total authenticity and that also likes to cuss?

If this sounds like you… you might have just found your therapist!

The lasting impact of emotional wounds:

Emotional wounds, especially for people pleasers and perfectionists, can shape the way you navigate relationships; whether it's with a partner, friends, family, or at work. These wounds often create anxious attachments, making it hard not to absorb the emotions of those around you.

You might find yourself walking on eggshells to avoid conflict, struggling to start difficult conversations, or feeling overwhelmed when your needs are not being met. The weight of these unhealed wounds can lead to chronic stress, leaving you feeling stuck in patterns of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and overthinking.

Over time, the stress and trauma of carrying these emotional burdens can manifest physically. Your body may develop chronic conditions like tension headaches, digestive issues, or constant fatigue, all linked to the anxiety living beneath the surface.

Feeling stuck in "freeze" mode- unable to take action, make decisions, or move forward—becomes an exhausting cycle. These challenges can make it hard to stay present, be authentic in relationships, and truly feel at ease in your own skin. But with awareness and healing, it's possible to break these patterns, reclaim your confidence, and create a more balanced, fulfilling life.

Therapy as an act of self-love and other-love

Going to therapy isn’t just about fixing what's "wrong"—it's an act of deep self-love. When you heal those deeper emotional wounds, rewire your core beliefs, and restructure your internal world, you’re giving yourself the gift of stepping into who you really are.

You stop reacting from a place of anxiety or past wounding and start operating from your core essence—a place of calm, confidence, compassion, and courage. You start seeing things from new perspectives, reconnecting with a sense of playfulness, and showing up in life with a whole new energy.

But it’s not just about you. When you heal, you begin to show up differently for the people you love. Your relationships become more authentic, and you’re able to offer the kind of presence that feels good to them and to you.

Therapy helps you re-organize both your internal and external world—not just for your own growth, but for the betterment of everyone you’re connected to. Healing yourself is an act of love for the people around you too.

Therapy with me looks like:

I take a mindfulness and somatic (body based) approach to therapy; otherwise known as a “bottom up” approach. These approaches target the lower regions of the brain as an avenue for re-structuring the belief system and re-organizing your relationship to self.

I utilize parts work to help you explore the ways in which you carry and operate from emotional wounds. We work to unburden the parts of you that adapted to trauma so that you can connect to your truest, most authentic essence.

I integrate creative and playful interventions including dance, somatic affirmations, intuitive movement, visualization and art.  Through use of playful, creative and movement related interventions, we aim to heal the relationship between your inner child and YOU.

An anxious helping professional helping anxious helping professionals

I’m a woman in a helping profession who’s worked with many other women in helping professions and I have a really soft spot for you all. I think many of us have something in common, and it’s that we sought careers in the helping professions because we wanted to offer others something that we didn’t get enough of.

I’m especially passionate about helping women in helping professions because I understand, personally, what the struggle is like. And I observe a very special sparkle when a client feels genuinely understood; I love to see that sparkle.

My work has spanned across childcare, education and mental health and I’ve seen so many women offer the most nurturing, loving, empathetic and encouraging support to others; while somehow shutting the door on themselves.

It’s my passion to help women like this, like me, open the door and walk through. We are worthy of our love too and taking care of YOU should be at the top of your to-do list.

You hold the wisdom

You hold the wisdom

To me, the most important thing we do in therapy is build a safe and trusting relationship; one where you can be entirely yourself, you can sob your snot out, you can cuss and yell, you can show up and sit silently, staring at the screen until I say something, you can just be, knowing that I have no expectations of you other than for you to be true to yourself.

I’m not here to tell you what to do, give you advice, or correct your patterns of behavior (though I will most certainly call them out). I am here to help you feel so safe, so supported, so heard, and so understood, that you can successful tap into your own wisdom. Because it’s all there, just hidden beneath the hurt.

For the helping professional…

Shall we chat about how I tailor treatment specifically to you?

  • Being in a helping profession, you have to be on, focused, grounded and present for your own clients, patients or students. There’s not a lot of time you have during the day to focus inward and problem solve through the personal challenges you might facing. This is why we don’t just discuss the interventions, we experience them in session so that you can practically plan for how you might implement coping strategies and emotional processing skills real-time during your ever day life.

  • Being in the helping profession is hard, hard work. It can lead to burnout, quick; especially if we’re lacking in self care and in the right coping strategies to support emotional regulation. I tailor my approach to women in the helping professions by incorporating strategies that address boundary setting, self care practices, mindfulness, creativity and play.

  • Many of us experience empathy fatigue; it can be draining and it can feel like there’s nothing left to give yourself or your loved ones. I use somatic techniques to help you recharge and rejuvenate so that you can re-engage with your personal life with the same enthusiasm you experience when engaging in your professional life.

  • I collaborate with my clients to create practical goals to support work life balance, self care, and continued career growth. We reveal the underlying childhood traumas that might hold you back in any one of these areas.

  • Because of your career in the helping profession, you likely auto-pilot think of others before you think of yourself. This is why I also tailor interventions to ensure that we’re focusing inward and detaching from the outside world a little bit more often. We’ll use embodiment techniques to help you physically experience emotional boundaries, self esteem, and self worth.

  • Just because you’re in a helping profession, doesn’t necessarily mean you feel “helped” by the professionals around you (including supervisors or managers). I support clients in navigating conflict avoidance and embodying confidence so that clients can speak up more boldly and be sure that their own needs are being met too.

  • Rationally we know that we don’t want our professional relationships and experiences to harm our personal ones; but it happens. Often it happens with a romantic partner and many of the women I work with have been in long term relationships that are mostly fulfilling, but in part, very stressful. Together, we can work on improving honest and healthy communication, implementing grounding strategies that support reduced anxiety and irritability, and setting appropriate boundaries.

  • You won’t walk away from this therapy experience without practical tools that you can integrate into your daily routines immediately. I’ll almost always leave you with a specific strategy to practice regularly, or we’ll pinpoint one that you’re already familiar with before leaving each session.

I’m passionate about creating a space that feels not only safe to cry in, but safe to laugh in. Therapy isn’t just a place to process your anxiety and your trauma, it’s a place to explore your creativity and your joy.

Let’s work together