Virtual Therapy in California
Working Together
However you arrive at this work, it begins in the same place. With what you have been carrying, and where in your body you have been carrying it.
I am a somatic psychotherapist offering virtual telehealth therapy throughout California. I work with individuals and couples, entirely online. Some people find me after years of talk therapy that helped them understand their patterns without ever quite changing them. Others have never sat down with a therapist and are not sure what to expect. Both are good places to start.
What I offer is not a technique I apply to you. It is a relationship we build, and a slower kind of attention than most of us get anywhere else in our lives.
Individual Therapy
For when your life looks good from the outside and does not feel that way from the inside.
You are functioning. Maybe more than functioning. The career is stable, the accomplishments are real, and from the outside it probably looks like you have it handled. But you wake up with a low hum of dread you cannot explain, or a numbness where there used to be something. The days blur. You are doing a great deal and feeling almost none of it.
Individual therapy is a weekly pause button on all of that. A space where the mask comes off and we get curious together about what your body has been trying to tell you, sometimes for years.
You set the pace. Slowly, if that is what you need. Straight into it, if that is what you came for.
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Couples Therapy
For the conversation you keep having, in slightly different words, every few weeks.
Most couples who come to me are not fighting about what they think they are fighting about. There is the surface disagreement, the one about the dishes or the calendar or the tone someone used. And underneath it, two nervous systems bracing for something older than this relationship.
That is where the work actually happens. Not in relitigating last Tuesday, but in slowing down enough to notice what happens in each of your bodies the moment the conversation turns. Once you can both see that, the same argument stops going the same way.
You will leave with more than communication tools. You will leave understanding what each of you is protecting.
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What both have in common
Whichever door you come through, the approach is the same. I am trained in somatic psychotherapy, which means we work with your body alongside your thoughts, because the nervous system does not respond to insight alone.
You might be describing a difficult conversation with your manager, and I might gently ask what you are noticing in your chest as you tell me about it. That question is not a detour. It is usually where the real material is.
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Common questions
Do you see individuals, couples, or both?
Both. I work with individuals and with couples, and the two often overlap. Some people start on their own and bring a partner in later. Some couples find that one of them wants a space of their own alongside the shared work. It can change shape as we go, and you do not have to decide before we talk.
Where in California do you work?
I work with clients anywhere in the state of california. Because this is a virtual telehealth practice and every session is held online, it makes no difference whether you are in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, or somewhere smaller. If you are physically in California during our sessions, we can work together.
Are sessions in person or online?
Online, by secure video. My whole practice is virtual, which means you can be at home, in your own chair, with your own tea and your own dog at your feet. Clients regularly tell me these sessions feel just as close as sitting in a room together, and being somewhere familiar tends to make it easier to be honest, not harder.
How do I know if this is the right fit?
You usually do not, not with certainty, until you have talked to someone. That is what the free consultation is for. Thirty minutes, no intake forms, no commitment. You ask whatever you want to ask, I ask a little about what is bringing you in, and we both get a feel for whether this seems right. If it is not, I will say so and do my best to point you somewhere better.
How long is a session, and how often do we meet?
Sessions run 50 to 55 minutes, what’s sometimes called a therapist’s hour. It’s enough time to get somewhere real without leaving you wrung out, and most people find it works as a reset in the middle of the week. Most start weekly, since that gives the work enough continuity to build on itself, and we adjust from there.
I also offer two-hour deep-dive sessions when there’s a specific issue that needs more room than an hour allows.
What does therapy cost?
Sessions are $200. I don’t bill insurance directly, but I can provide a superbill you can submit for out-of-network reimbursement, and many plans cover a meaningful portion of it.
I also keep a sliding scale for people navigating real financial strain. If that’s you, say so when we talk and we’ll figure it out.
The first 30-minute consultation is free.