I help you heal from childhood trauma, anxiety, and perfectionism.

My Services for CA Residents

In person and Telehealth

I am Sandra (she/her), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California.

Whether you are new to therapy or seeking someone who can truly understand you on a deeper level I am glad you are here. I can only imagine there might be a part of you that feels overwhelmed by taking this first step to reach out for help. Often times individuals I work with have this part of them that constantly tells them they need to “be stronger,” or “push through.” My clients often come from a home where there was no choice but to push through, keep going, and not feel. They often come to therapy burned out, reactive in their relationships, and looking for another way. This form of survival in its most extreme form eventually stops working. I truly believe that we heal in relationship with one another. You do not have to do this work alone. My role is to help bring awareness to your internal emotional experience. Essentially, to guide you in getting to know how your thoughts, emotions, and life experiences impact your life so you can begin to find another way of showing up in the world. One where you aren’t just surviving but figuring out what it means to show up authentically as yourself. I do this through using the Internal Family Systems model.

The therapeutic process is a sacred one where you begin to explore strategies in your life that may no longer be working for you. These strategies may have once served you whether you used substances to protect yourself from vulnerability, reacted in anger with someone you love due to past trauma, or were motivated by a perfectionistic part that wards off fears of being rejected.

I specialize in working with early childhood trauma, anxiety, perfectionism, and substance use recovery. When we work together we get to the root of your issues to create sustainable change. The work we will do is deep but deep doesn’t always mean that it’s painful. Therapy also gets you to the other side of pain and with that comes relief.