Roseville, CA

As a Certified Master ART Practitioner, I offer Accelerated Resolution Therapy, an innovative approach that can resolve trauma and distressing memories often in just one to five sessions. Accelerated Resolution Therapy art uses eye movements similar to REM sleep while you recall difficult memories, allowing your brain to reprocess experiences without requiring you to share every painful detail.

This approach is particularly effective for people who have tried traditional talk therapy without success, those with specific traumatic incidents, phobias, or anyone who prefers a more directive, time-limited approach. Many clients appreciate that Accelerated Resolution Therapy doesn't require talking in detail about traumatic events to experience relief.

As a certified Brainspotting therapist, I use this powerful brain-body based approach to access and process experiences that traditional talk therapy often cannot reach. Brainspotting works with your visual field to locate where trauma and difficult emotions are held in the brain, allowing for deep processing without extensive verbal discussion.

This approach is especially beneficial for people who feel disconnected from their emotions or who struggle to articulate their experiences verbally. Your brain does the healing work while I provide guidance and support.

I offer Relational Life Therapy, a comprehensive approach that goes far beyond basic communication skills. This three-phase process identifies your specific conflict patterns, addresses past experiences and triggers preventing change, and builds real skills with direct attention to any barriers that prevent you from using them successfully.

Phase 1: Understanding Your Pattern - We identify your specific conflict dance and establish clear goals for what success would look like in your relationship.

Phase 2: Addressing the Past - We deal with past experiences and triggers that prevent change even when you want it, making direct connections between family-of-origin experiences and current relationship patterns.

Phase 3: Building Real Skills - We teach practical skills and directly address roadblocks when they arise, ensuring you can actually implement what you're learning.

One unique tool we use is the feedback wheel—a structured approach where one partner brings up an issue while the other listens to understand and offers repair. Unlike typical communication techniques, this isn't a dialogue where both share perspectives. It provides a clear pathway for one partner to communicate their experience and what their partner can do to repair, creating resolution rather than escalation.

For couples therapy, I recommend 80-minute sessions, typically every two weeks, with a three-month initial commitment to make meaningful progress.

Money is one of the most common sources of relationship conflict and individual stress, yet it's often overlooked in traditional therapy. Financial therapy addresses the psychological and emotional aspects of money—the anxiety, avoidance, shame, and conflict that surround financial decisions.

Whether you're dealing with money anxiety, avoiding financial planning, experiencing imposter syndrome around your income, or fighting with your partner about spending, financial therapy helps you understand and change your relationship with money.

For clients who want concentrated, immersive work, I offer therapy intensives and couples retreats. These extended sessions allow us to accomplish in days what might take months in traditional weekly therapy. Intensives are particularly effective for addressing specific traumas, relationship crises, or when you're ready to commit to deep, focused work.