Your child might struggle to navigate a significant life change, such as separation, divorce, a move, or a change in schools or friend groups. You might worry they are doing too much or not enough. You might notice they are becoming distant or showing signs of anxiety and stress. You want them to feel supported but struggle to connect with them like you used to. Perhaps you fear that your unresolved childhood or relationship experiences adversely affect your parenting. 

In our work together, we will explore your child’s strengths and challenges and develop skills to manage stress, overwhelm, and withdrawal. Simple mindfulness and emotional regulation techniques help your child learn to manage and express difficult feelings, which boosts their confidence and improves their relationships. 

Support for couples and families begins by interrupting dysfunctional and painful cycles of behavior. We will explore underlying emotions and conflicts with compassion and courage, discovering new ways to interact and communicate that lead to closeness and authentic connection. 

Clients share that my warm, nonjudgmental, collaborative attitude fosters a sense of trust that supports self-inquiry and growth in the ways that matter to them. My relational, trauma-informed, mind-body approach gently explores how our thoughts, beliefs, habits, behaviors, emotions, and feelings are connected.

Decades of experience teaching mindfulness and emotional regulation techniques in the Yogic tradition and my Counseling Master’s with an emphasis in Somatic Psychology inform my understanding of each individual’s unique and adaptive nervous system, the nature of suffering, and the potential for change.

I offer in-person and online psychotherapy services for children ages 7-12+, teens, adults, family and couples therapy. Children 7 to 12 years old are in-person sessions only.

Under the supervision of Sevil Gonen, LMFT 110795