Specialties

Reconnecting as partners to create a trusting, connected, and deeply supportive home.

Navigating neurodivergence as a team doesn't mean having identical responses to every moment—it means cultivating deep trust, open communication, and mutual support so your home remains a place of refuge for everyone. When one or both partners are burned out, communication often breaks down into repetitive arguments, misaligned discipline, or a feeling that you’re simply running a busy household rather than sharing a life.

Couples therapy for parents of neurodivergent children provides a safe, structured space to rebuild intimacy, resolve co-parenting friction, and establish shared strategies. Using authentic relational skills, we address root causes of distress so you can support each other through complex parenting decisions.

Key Focus Areas:

• Resolving Co-Parenting Disagreements: Align on parenting strategies, boundaries, and daily routines without blaming each other.

• Rebuilding Connection & Intimacy: Restore emotional warmth and authentic communication outside of parenting roles.

• Sharing the Mental & Emotional Load: Navigate the burnout, isolation, and systemic fatigue that impact your marriage.

In-person couples counseling in San Diego and online telehealth appointments in CA & MA.

Grief & Loss Therapy

Compassionate space to honor, feel, and process profound life transitions and unacknowledged grief.

Grief isn’t limited to the loss of a loved one; it also accompanies life shifts, systemic burnout, broken expectations, and the quiet, recurring loss of the life you anticipated. Many people carry "disenfranchised grief" -pain that society rarely acknowledges, such as the chronic sorrow of navigating complex family diagnoses or letting go of expected developmental milestones.

Grief and loss therapy offers a compassionate, somatic-informed environment to process painful feelings without pressure to "move on" or "stay positive." Through gentle, grounded therapeutic work, we create room for your actual experience, allowing raw emotion to integrate naturally over time.

What We Work Through:

• Complex & Ambiguous Loss: Processing the subtle, ongoing grief that accompanies caregiving, major life pivots, or changed family dynamics.

• Somatic Grief Processing: Unpacking where loss lives in your physical body to relieve chronic tension and emotional fatigue.

• Moving Forward Without Erasing: Finding ways to honor loss while building a meaningful path forward.

Trauma Therapy

Relieving chronic stress, nervous system reactivity, and past wounds through parts work and body-based healing.

Trauma often manifests as feeling constantly on guard, walking on eggshells, or reacting with intense anger, freeze, or shutdown to situational triggers. Whether rooted in childhood experiences, medical crises, acute events, or the slow accumulation of relational stress, unintegrated trauma keeps your nervous system stuck in survival mode.

Trauma therapy goes beyond traditional talk therapy by addressing how past experiences affect both mind and body. Utilizing internal parts work and somatic trauma approaches, we safely process stored nervous system responses so you can move from reactive survival into genuine safety and self-compassion.

How We Work:

• Nervous System Care: Understand and shift out of persistent fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses.

• Internal Parts Work: Meet hyper-protective or anxious parts of yourself with curiosity rather than frustration.

• Building Capacity & Resiliency: Expand your window of tolerance so triggers no longer hijack your day.

• Building Skills: Build skills that allow you to care for your mind and body, and communicate your needs without shame.