ONLINE THERAPY FOR WOMEN ACROSS CALIFORNIA

 I work with women roughly 25 to 55 who are holding everything together…the work, the household, the aging parent, the kids if they have them, the friendships, the emotional labor nobody else is going to do. They're high-capacity. They're also exhausted. They know they're strong, but they've started to notice what that strength has cost them.

Most arrive with anxiety, depression, or trauma symptoms, but there's almost always a longer story underneath. Holding too much. Meeting everyone's needs first. Not being met in return. The sense that every solution the culture hands them: meditate more, have a gratitude practice, set better boundaries, misses what's actually happening.

If you're tired of therapy content that tells you what to do instead of actually listening, we might be a fit.

 People come to me with a range of concerns that often turn out to be related. Anxiety that didn't respond to the self-help canon. A long-term partnership that's harder than it should be, where you're doing most of the emotional work. A career you built that no longer fits. A trauma history — recent or older — that keeps showing up in ways you don't want. Burnout that went past tired into something existential. The creeping sense that the version of yourself you organized your life around isn't working anymore, and you don't know what comes next.

These aren't separate problems. They're usually the same thing from different angles.

 My approach is relational, meaning the relationship itself is the mechanism, not a delivery vehicle for techniques. I draw on self-compassion, parts work, aspects of nonviolent communication, and EMDR where it's clinically indicated. I take polyvagal theory seriously without making you translate the jargon.

More specifically: I don't use a cookie-cutter approach, I don't pathologize, and I don't silver-line. I take seriously that much of what hurts us are the conditions we're living in, not a flaw in us. I'll hold the thread between your past and your present when it's useful — without reducing you to your wounds or handing you someone to blame. I won't ask you to be grateful for what is hurting you, or hand you a breathing exercise instead of listening. Here's a longer piece I wrote about why the breathing exercises don't usually work 

 I practice fully online, from anywhere in California. Sessions are 50 minutes, held over a secure HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform, and scheduled around a clinical calendar, not a 24/7 app model. You'll work with me. Not a rotating roster, not an algorithm, not an AI chatbot.

Current session fee: $150 for 50 minutes. (Sessions increase to $175 on July 1, 2026.) I'm in-network with Aetna. For other insurance, I work with Thrizer, which handles out-of-network reimbursement automatically — no superbills, no paperwork for you to chase. Private pay makes space for depth and continuity that insurance models often compress.

 Because I work virtually and am licensed to practice in California, I can see clients anywhere in the state. A few of the regions my clients come from most often:

 For most people, yes. Clinical research consistently finds that telehealth therapy produces comparable outcomes to in-person therapy for a wide range of presenting concerns. In my experience, online sessions often make it easier to fit therapy into a full life, and the privacy of your own space can accelerate rather than slow the work.

 I'm in-network with Aetna. For clients with other insurance plans, I work with Thrizer, a service that handles out-of-network reimbursement automatically, meaning no superbills, no paperwork to submit yourself. Thrizer also offers upfront coverage for many plans, meaning you pay the post-reimbursement rate at time of session. Many clients find this comes out close to an in-network copay.