In person and virtual mindfulness and cognitive therapy for anxiety, depression, and ADHD in Long Beach and all of California

Healing your relationship

with yourself

heal • grow • thrive

Your therapist in Long Beach, CA

Hi! I’m Alex,

Figuring out how to be kinder to ourselves can be so overwhelming - we worry it might keep us from actually achieving our goals or being the people we want to be. I’m here to help you find new ways to care for yourself that still help you get where you want to go, without needing to beat up on yourself along the way.

LET'S CONNECT

Maybe you’re wanting to…

  • Feel more at peace being alone with your thoughts and big emotions

  • Trust yourself more and understand what and why you feel the way you do

  • Be able to express your feelings, wants, and needs both to yourself and to others in a way that feels both authentic and helpful

  • Bring gentleness and wisdom to the inner critic’s shame, guilt, and doubt

  • Offer yourself the same compassion you find it easier to offer others

  • Heal your relationship with yourself

Feeling like you’re running on empty and never enough?

Therapy for adult diagnosed ADHDers and self-diagnosed ADHDers

to go from overwhelmed, overloaded, and anxious to calm, compassion, and caring.

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Therapy for anxiety & depression that heals from the inside out

A safe supportive space to find what works for anxiety and depression, using evidence-based practices, somatic, and self-reflective intuitive therapy.

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Specialties

  • It feels like you can never get a break from the endless internal dialogue and some things are so hard to approach because of the anxiety, you might find yourself avoiding things that you used to enjoy or that are important to your broader goals. Therapy can help find ways to unwind the mind and finally approach those steps towards what you want. Find out more here.

  • People seem to think you have it together when inside you might be reeling, overwhelmed, and panicking. You might be finding it hard to stay on track to some of your goals and not even know where you got lost. Therapy can help us learn more about what’s causing this, strategies we can use to support ourselves, and how to show up in our lives with more authenticity and connection. Find out more here.

  • It’s exhausting feeling exhausted and it’s exhausting battling with that inner voice that others may seem to think we should just be able to change at the drop of a hat. I get it - We want to feel better, but it’s really truly hard right now. Therapy can help us uncover what might be going on underneath that’s making it so hard and help us find a path forward. Find out more here.

  • It can feel like no matter what we do, our inner critic has something disheartening to say about it. It makes it hard to take some of the vulnerable risks that are required to find fulfillment and joy in our lives and can prevent us from feeling like we even deserve fulfillment and joy to begin with. Our inner critics are often learned and very well practiced. There’s hope - we can learn new ways to be with ourselves that are more supportive on our path.

  • Sometimes in relationships we can find ourselves in dynamics we don’t like, but we can’t put our fingers on why or if we can, we don’t know what to do about it. Our attachment systems, nervous system responses, communication patterns, and thinking can sometimes get in the way of us finding fulfilling connections. Therapy can help us see those patterns more clearly and make active choices to find more fulfillment.

  • When we’re deciding to go to therapy, it’s often because we’ve run out of ideas for how to approach our challenges and are looking for new ways. It can feel like we’re banging our heads against the wall every time we fall into the same old patterns. Mindfulness is essential to our growth - if we’re not present with ourselves, practicing non-judgmental awareness, curiosity, and gentleness with ourselves, we’re going to have a much harder time making different choices in the moment.

Next steps

Contact

Reach out to me here and request to schedule a free consultation. Please include some basic information in your request to help me get to know what your needs are in therapy and to see if this might be a good option for you.

Consult

We’ll have a 20-30 minute phone consultation call about what you’re hoping to get out of therapy, what I do as a therapist, and to answer any questions you might have about the process.

Connect

Should we decide we’re a good fit, we’ll schedule our first session. In our first sessions, you can expect a lot of questions to help me get to know you and your goals and a couple tools or prompts to get you started. There might be some laughter, tears, or brain freezes. It’s all welcome.

You can feel better, choose yourself, trust yourself, and improve your relationships

and you don’t need to do it all alone

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  • "What I always thought was my pain turned out to be my heart."

    Matthew Brensilver, MSW, PhD

  • “Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.”

    Tara Brach, PhD

  • “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

    Viktor E. Frankl, MD, PhD

  • “Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”

    Rev. angel Kyodo Williams

  • "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

    Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

    Anaïs Nin

  • "Mental health...is not a destination, but a process. It's about how you drive, not where you're going."

    Dr. Noam Shpancer