(510) 465-0036 Specialist in Step and Blended Families with Adolescents

Specializing in therapy for step and blended families with adolescents, I help parents and teens create satisfying, supportive, family relationships. Having worked with over one hundred families with teenagers, I am committed to honoring and balancing the many differing therapeutic needs that exist within step and blended families. Having grown up as a teenager in a step family, being a step parent to a teen, and having worked with many step and blended families with teenagers in therapy, I bring to my work specialized experience with, passion for, and knowledge of the unique challenges step and blended families with teenagers face.

I get to know each of my clients as unique and tailor my work towards what I believe will be the most thorough, compassionate and effective way of helping. A core part of my work is to ask for on-going feedback from my clients so that I may personalize my approach to make each therapy session as powerful and helpful as possible. I see each therapy session as a gold mine. It is my job and my pleasure to put on my hard hat, role up my sleeves and do everything I can to make sure my clients leave each session with something valuable. I incorporate a guided, individualized approach that helps my clients quickly identify and begin working on the core issues that will need to be addressed in order for them to achieve their goals for therapy.

I develop a safe, non-blaming, honest and compassionate environment that builds hope and offers a new direction. I work from a brief model of therapy, which holds that, while it is not possible to know in advance how long therapy will take, it should take as long as is necessary and no longer. My background is in Family Systems, Solution Focused, Narrative and Cognitive approaches, all of which are highly collaborative and interactive, building substantial and rapid progress for clients and offering individualized tools to help resolve the issues that brought them to therapy. Additionally, I utilize Somatic approaches and Hypnosis, which are highly effective methods that focus on releasing traumatic memories and stresses from the body and rapidly transforming negative patterns of thought and behavior.

If you would like to find out more about me, my approach and how I may be able to help you
call me at (510) 465-0036 for an initial consultation. I offer a FREE first session.