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Transformative, Relational Therapy
I am a Masters level psychotherapist licensed in California and Ohio who believes in the innate ability as humans to heal ourselves.
In addition to the 3000 hours of face to face client time required for licensure, I completed additional training, supervision, and appropriate requirements to become a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, focusing my work on the developmentally appropriate and heavily researched therapeutic approaches of Child Centered Play Therapy, Filial Therapy (family play therapy), and understanding neurodivergence, trauma, and sensory differences and their impact on our nervous system that impact children’s behavior.
I have focused my training on practices for kids that are based on the belief children know what they need, we just need to give them the space to meet those needs within the therapeutic process. I utilize each child’s strengths to address their needs and work with family systems to create lasting change and support.
An insightful, relational approach
I’ve completed level 1 and 2 of training in Developmental Transformations, an embodied and relational practice that allows the practitioner to work with the client on their relational experience in a visceral, impactful way. This practice is for all ages.
I’ve also completed Megan Devine’s comprehensive training program certifying me within her approach as a Grief Support Professional. Megan’s work is real, acknowledging the world doesn’t understand grief and its experience, and those who have experienced profound loss often feel like their grieving “wrong” and those who want to support them feel like they’re failing them, too. I work with individuals to help them understand grief has no timeline, and every grief experience is as unique as the person they have lost.
For creatives and performing artists, I utilize my background in performing arts industry for the last 25 years and as a creative human in addition to my extensive therapy training, weaving it all together. My approach is psychodynamic in nature, working with clients from the demands of intensive school programs training performing artists, the stresses and demands of maintaining a multi-gig life, public pressures of celebrity, and performance anxiety.
My rates
Please note: if sliding scale is needed, please let me know. I specialize and only see clients within my areas of focus, and I am willing to slide my fee if the cost is out of your reach. I will do so if I am able.
Sand Tray Therapy
Online or in-person, this is designated for individuals to process and explore their experiences and how they have impacted their relationships and sense of self. Sessions are weekly until clients are moving closer towards termination, at which time they may change to bi-weekly.
50 mins | $200| Get started
Talk Therapy
Best practiced as an in-person service, this is designated for individuals to increase their awareness of their own behavioral patterns in a deeper, somatic, and highly relational process and explore their experiences and how they have impacted their relationships and sense of self. Clients whom have utilized this practice often see gains in progress goals sooner than talk therapy. Sessions are weekly until clients are moving closer towards termination, at which time they may change to bi-weekly.
50 mins | $200| Get started
Drama Therapy
Only practiced as an in-person service, this is designated for individuals ages 3-12 years old, through the lens of Child Centered Play Therapy, an evidence-based, developmentally appropriate approach for working with children. Children do not process the world the same as adults. They utilize play as their language, and toys are their words. Caregiver meetings are scheduled every 4-6 weeks to help support the child in their therapeutic growth in the home, school and community environments. Sessions are weekly until clients are moving closer towards termination, at which time they may change to bi-weekly.
50 mins | $200| Get started
Play Therapy
Originating in the 1920s, sand tray therapy provides a depthful, creative, sensorial and nonverbal expression of a client’s inner world using sand, a tray, miniature figures, and nature elements. This service is provided in person to allow the client the sensory experience of utilizing the four different textures of sand I have in my office to align with their sensory needs. Clients manipulate the items in the tray to represent exactly what they’d like to express, and the therapist works with the client to explore what themes emerge for furthering their self-awareness of their world. There are multiple approaches to sand tray work, including archetypal work of Carl Jung, using sand tray in conjunction with embodied work of Drama Therapy or Gestalt Therapy, narrative approaches to better understand the narratives we carry within us that informs the choices we make in our lives, and many more. This can often be an emotional process for clients, accessing deeper parts of themselves they may not frequently verbally process.
50 mins | $200| Get started
This is the only family therapy model I practice, and it is for families with children ages 3-12 years old. This is a structured play therapy model that first coaches caregivers in skills utilized in this approach (that can later be applied outside the therapy room), then integrates the child into the work through play therapy sessions supported by the clinician. This model is effective due to the caregivers’ central involvement of the therapeutic work, allowing the child to build deeper attachments, develop a stronger sense of trust and safety, increase the child’s decision making and problem solving skills, increase the child’s self esteem, and decrease difficult behaviors. This process is often approximately four to five months of treatment (depending on variables and context within the family’s life). Sessions are weekly, with the goal of transferring the work to independent play sessions in the home environment between caregiver and child.
50 mins | $200| Get started
Filial Therapy
Previous groups have been spaces for individuals struggling with creative block, those wanting an introduction to the practice of drama therapy, stress management, LGBTIQQA+ teen spaces, female empowerment, and academic professional support groups. When new groups are available, I will post on the website. If there is a topic you’re interested in having at your site, or having me produce in my practice, please reach out.
60 mins | $50 per person| Get started