Welcome! My name is Nancy and I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified Grief Support Specialist, and a mother and grandmother. I offer a safe space for individuals, couples, families and adolescents (via telehealth and in person) to heal and grow. I bring a personal understanding of complicated grief from trauma, which has deepened my capacity to specialize in helping those grieving and experiencing PTSD from many different kinds of losses.

My style is warm, accepting, patient, intuitive, curious and heart-centered. I take an integrative, client-centered approach using a variety of different therapy modalities, based on what works best for you -- from psychodynamic, depth and Jungian to mindfulness, IFS parts work and somatic therapy, and I also draw from the arts, music, literature, energy, humanistic, existential and spiritual psychology. I have experienced many of these therapies myself and that personal understanding benefits my work helping clients with a variety of issues, including anxiety, depression, relationships, parenting, aging, illness and disabilities, women’s issues, disordered eating and work, leadership and career stress. I am currently being trained as an EMDR practitioner, a modality that was especially healing for me personally, and for my clients.

I work with all cultural identities and strive to practice with cultural humility, deep compassion and a core belief in the mind and body’s ability to heal itself once we are free of defining ourselves by our past memories, cultural complexes and unconscious beliefs.

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With couples, I also practice integratively and creatively with a trauma-informed approach, drawing from psychodynamic and attachment-based modalities to mindfulness, neuroscience, EMDR, parts work, Jungian and family systems -- whatever resonates for you as a couple to help you with your goals. For example, I could help you develop an awareness when you're in the middle of an unwanted pattern by understanding your most protective parts and how they affect your nervous system. We could then practice how to help you pause when you find yourself in the pattern so that you can check in with yourself first in a mindful way, and proceed with a more courageous conversation. These new kinds of conversations as well as a number of other practices I will share can be healing both for you each as individuals and the "us" -- so both intrapsychically and interpersonally. While I don't believe it's a partner's job to heal the other partner's early childhood attachment wounds, I do strongly believe that if partners learn how to support, hold, and really listen to each other from the heart that healing happens. Some of this we will do in couples sessions together right alongside the relational work, so we will combine working with each individual and then together, with awareness, compassion, loving kindness, and yes, laughter. Sharing laughter is such a great core value couples can develop in relationships -- and evidence-based studies have shown it directly impacts emotional well-being. If you’re interested in creating lasting, transformative changes in your relationship, I’d be honored to work with you.

With an open heart and an open mind, I will help you deepen your innate capacity for healing, and to navigate lifes changes. Together, in trust and safety, we will focus on the issues that are most important to you. I will help you look for signs that your own internal voice is speaking to you, such as through dreams, imagination, the arts and noticing synchronicities -- those unexpected but mysteriously meaningful coincidences in life. As you embark on perhaps the most important journey of self-discovery and growth in your life -- your healing journey -- I believe an empathic therapist who is truly attuned to you can help you make those meaningful connections to start a new chapter in your life with better coping skills, more energy and confidence, heightened self-esteem and more meaning.

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Locations: Berkeley, Montclair Oakland

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Insurance: Not accepting new insurance clients