About Counseling

I am a Marriage, Family Therapist as well as a Life Coach. For some people coaching isn’t enough. They are too distressed, anxious or depressed to take advantage of life’s possibilities. First they need to feel some relief from their emotional pain. They can’t see a future beyond their despair.

If you are currently in distress, I offer face to face counseling in my office in San Jose, California. In my experience, there is still a light within you that may be flickering but hasn’t gone out. I help you to find the truth of your being - what is beautiful and blessed within you, despite your current circumstances. As we work together, little by little, what is right about you begins to flourish again. There are no circumstances that are so awful that your spirit can’t eventually prevail.

I have over 25 years of experience working with couples, children, teens, families and women who struggle with eating. I have found that Positive Psychology works the best with everyone, regardless of their reason for coming. Positive Psychology focuses on the inner resources and strength that are present within a person, regardless of what they’ve lived through.

I really believe that every person is innately healthy at the core of their being. I also believe that how you talk to yourself about yourself, your life and what has happened to you is crucial. I will help you look at whatever has happened in your life and find a place of peace within that memory, if you are open to finding one.

We all want to be free of our life stories. We want to believe that happiness is possible for us, even if our life has been a struggle. We don’t want to be defined by what we have lived so far. In his book, A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle writes that we tend to identify ourselves by what has happened to us and the stories we tell ourselves about our lives.  These stories can cause us great suffering.

However, we have all experienced moments of grace, when we are alert, alive and attentive to the present. For that split second we sense that there is  something alive and wonderful within us that is irrevocably connected to something alive and wonderful within everything. I feel this most often when I’m walking in nature, playing with my dog or watching little children.

If you are ready to work your way past your story, your pain and your fears, I am ready to walk that journey with you. Together we can help you connect to the wonder within you and live your life from your intrinsic place of innate health. Then the whole world opens up to you; your relationships are more loving, your work is more joyful and your life feels more blessed.