Psychotherapy services in West LA & online across California

How I can help

The people I work with come with a wide range of life questions and challenges. Below are the areas where I have the most experience and where my approach tends to land well. If you don’t see your situation below but think we might be a fit, please reach out, a free 30-minute consultation is the best way to know.

Relationships, couples, CNM/poly

I specialize in relationships and have helped many couples and partners who feel stuck in painful communication patterns or recurring conflicts. Some dynamics that might look familiar to you: one partner wants more, the other shuts down; small disagreements escalate; we feel like strangers… the lived experience is exhausting, for both.

Drawing on attachment theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy, I guide partners to slow down enough to see what’s actually happening underneath their reactivity, what each person is protecting and what each person is missing, to rebuild a sense of safety, honesty, and connection. 

EFT has scientific validation and is highly effective, with over 70% of couples showing significant reduction in relationship distress.

Expats, francophones, multicultural families

Moving to a new country reshapes more than your address. Language fatigue, cultural codes that don’t quite click, the slow erosion of feeling at home in yourself. We can feel guilty and confused because life on the surface looks fine.

I support expats, francophones, and multicultural families navigating the in-between. As an immigrant myself (France → Quebec → California), I know the specific texture of these challenges from the inside. We work in English, French, or both, depending on what feels right.

Self-esteem, confidence

A persistent inner critic, the sense of never being quite enough, second-guessing or comparing yourself, these are some of the most common reasons people come to see me, often layered under other problems.

Self-esteem is rarely fixed by affirmations alone. We look at where these deep patterns about yourself come from, how they show up in your relationships and work, and what it might mean to relate to yourself with more acceptance and kindness.

Creative & highly sensitive people

Sensitive people often come with a rich inner life, a deep responsiveness to their environment and other people’s emotions, and feeling intensely.

Therapy here is a place to slow down when the outside world seems to go too fast. We will learn to recognize your own signals, and work with your sensitivity instead of against it. We make room for the difficult feelings - overwhelm, not belonging, self-doubt - while cultivating what the gift of sensitivity offers.

Life transitions

A new job, a new country, a separation, a baby, a parent’s illness, the end of an old identity, life transitions are disorienting and can leave us confused or on edge. I support clients in honoring the grief in what is ending, and help them explore and embrace their evolving identities.

Lack of sense of purpose

Life on the surface looks pretty fine, but… “is this it?” The jobs, the relationships, the achievements are there but the feeling of meaning has thinned out, or never quite arrived.

We explore what’s actually pulling at you, what values feel alive, what kinds of choices you might make space for, and let go of what no longer fits.

Anxiety

Anxiety can be a constant background noise, the sense that something is about to go wrong, or a sudden flood with physical tension, racing thoughts, difficulty sleeping.

My approach combines understanding the root of anxiety (where did I learn that? what is it protecting?) and offering practical tools to work with your nervous system in real time.

What sessions look like

Sessions last about 50 minutes. In our first session, we’ll get to know each other, explore what’s bringing you to therapy, and identify the themes you’d like to work on. This helps me create a mental map to guide our work together. Therapy is a collaborative dialogue in which I act as your co-pilot: I listen carefully, ask questions, and at times offer insights and practical tools. Clients often describe me as warm, while also gently challenging if needed.

I know that opening up to someone you don’t yet know can feel daunting. If you’d like to know whether we’d be a fit, please book a free 30-minute consultation, there’s no commitment, and it’s the simplest way to find out.