Description
Greetings! I am a licensed psychologist with over 25 years of experience helping individuals, couples, and groups to heal, transform, and express their highest and best potential. I am committed to working collaboratively with my clients toward their goals. I meet you where you are and we go from there. I work from a strengths-based, culturally-informed, and liberation perspective with a focus on optimizing both awareness and action. All of my services are grounded in a multicultural meta-theoretical framework which holds that the person cannot be separated from the cultural and sociopolitical contexts within which they live.
My approach to psychotherapy is informed by an integrative culturally-centered approach including acceptance-based behavioral therapies (i.e., Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Acceptance Based Behavioral Therapy (ABBT), and Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy (IBCT)), Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT); Humanistic and Existential approaches, and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). I integrate contemplative, relational, and empowerment strategies into my work. I offer psychotherapy services to individual adults and couples. Many of the clients I see come with issues of relational conflict, self-esteem, managing life stress, racism-related stress, depression, anxiety, and life transitions.
In addition to psychotherapy, I teach mindfulness (see my site Soulfulness4Life.com) and offer consultation, training, workshops, and retreats to groups on resilience-oriented stress management, contemplative practices (e.g., meditation, writing/journaling), relationships, group dynamics, cultural diversity, intergroup relations, dialogue processes, and other topics.