Individual Therapy · Los Altos, CA
Individual Therapy in Los Altos, CA
For adults who want to understand what's underneath — the patterns that keep showing up, the emotional reactions that don't fit the moment, and what earlier experiences have to do with now. Including trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and relationship-related patterns.
What brings people here
Individual sessions draw on the same insight-focused approach as my other work — we're not just processing feelings, we're making the underlying patterns visible and understandable. People come for many different reasons:
Relationship patterns
Repeating dynamics across relationships — the same argument, the same dynamic, different people. Understanding where it comes from and what sustains it.
Anxiety and emotional reactivity
Reactions that feel disproportionate to the situation, hypervigilance, difficulty settling, or a low-level hum of worry that never quite goes away.
Trauma and PTSD
Early experiences, single-incident trauma, or prolonged exposure that shaped how you attach, what you expect from others, and how you respond to stress — sometimes meeting the threshold for PTSD, sometimes not. Both are treatable.
Life transitions
Major changes that surface identity questions or uncover what's been working in the background: career shifts, relationship endings, parenthood, loss.
High functioning, but stuck
You're doing well by most measures — and yet some area of your life doesn't seem to respond to effort, insight, or willpower alone.
Emotional disconnection or numbness
Difficulty accessing or trusting your own emotional experience, or a sense of going through the motions without knowing why.
What sessions look like
My approach is structured and active, not open-ended. We're not just revisiting the week — we're using what comes up to understand the larger pattern, trace it to its roots, and find what's available to change.
I use psychoeducation, frameworks, and visual models to make emotional dynamics concrete. Most clients leave sessions with something to think about or try — a new frame, a piece that clicked, or a specific thing to pay attention to.
Depending on what you're working through, we may incorporate EMDR therapy for trauma and PTSD, attachment-focused work, or somatic awareness alongside the cognitive and insight-oriented work. Trauma can affect emotional regulation, relationships, and daily functioning in ways that don't always respond to insight alone — EMDR addresses those layers directly.
Who this works best for
- Adults who want to understand what's driving their patterns, not just manage symptoms
- People who are analytically inclined and want a therapist who engages actively with that
- Those who've been in therapy before and want something more focused and structured
- Individuals whose relationship patterns feel connected to earlier experiences
- High-functioning adults who are stuck in a specific area despite effort and self-awareness
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