"At Promises, our mission is to provide a gateway to sobriety for you or a loved one and to help assist in the achievement of lifetime dreams. For over 21 years, we have been proud of the pioneering, restorative, and compassionate care Promises has been providing to clients struggling with addictions and co-occurring disorders. Located in Malibu and West Los Angeles, with no more than 24 clients in Malibu and 18 clients in West Los Angeles, Promises proudly offers highly individualized and structured, 12-step based programs ranging from Detoxification, Primary Residential/Inpatient treatment, thru Extended Care, Sober Living, and Outpatient services. To learn more about Promises, please call 800-595-8779 or visit our website at www.promises.com."

My approach to therapy is based on empathy, mindfulness and healthy attachment. I provide gentle guidance and challenge old limiting narratives and maladaptive behaviors. This exploration can and often does involve humor, the development of emotional fluency, and mind-body exploration. I am honored to enter into the sacred space of therapy together with my clients. In addition to thoughtful dialogue, I draw upon experiential therapeutic tools such as visualization, art therapy, psychodrama and role-play, and body awareness. I specialize in working with women's issues, eating disorders, intimacy/couples/relational issues, identity issues, anxiety/depression and moving through traumatic experiences. We all contain the inner wisdom to heal ourselves and move towards being an authentic, positive and loving person. The courage to be vulnerable --by moving toward our pain and confusion as well as our joy--utterly transforms and frees us.

Brief, evidence-based treatment for anxiety and overthinking, insomnia, and nightmares

I work from a holistic framework, blending cognitive psychology, mindfulness, current psychological research, and nature based therapy to help individuals and couples thrive. Sessions involve collaborating on an integrative treatment approach, combining insight, skills-based techniques, and creating objectives to meet goals and help clients understand how their past experiences and relationships shape who they are now. My work is to help people remove the obstacles that stand in the way of healing and one's capacity to be the best and truest version of oneself. Whether an individual comes to therapy with a vague sense that something is not right or an overwhelming sense of pain (or somewhere in-between), together we will create a safe space to being, to put words around your experience, and to create possibilities for change.