I am a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in the state of California with 19 years of professional work experience. hold a masters degree in marital and family therapy and art therapy. I have experience working in a variety of different therapeutic settings helping clients manage anxiety, sadness, trauma ,fear and stress, working individually and in group settings to build upon and teach new coping strategies and self management skills to improve upon their daily life routines, that address short term behavioral goals, and longer term objectives improving upon their ability to experience life stage changes and unresolved issues that have complicated daily routines and symptomatic behaviors undermining such things as motivation, self esteem, confidence, interpersonal communication skills, interpersonal skills and relationships within work place setting, families, interpersonal intimate and social supportive relationships that can contribute to impasses . personal boundary setting, and functional abilities necessary to navigating complexities of real world circumstances that present sometimes contributing to difficulties establishing and maintaining effective desired changes in targeted behavioral health to improve upon understanding and and one’s ability to address presenting problems, life stage challenges both present in real world and online circles that can overlap areas of one’s life contributing additional stresses that can be managed with new and developing therapeutic approaches, support of a professional provider that has understanding and expertise to help further inform and assist you in this journey in productively to establishing a strong therapeutic alliance with measurable goal oriented strategies balancing individual presentations of different symptomatic and behavioral conditions , overlapping with other areas of psychological processes inclusive of individuals experiences in culturally diverse communities and lifestyle informed by one’s own uniquely different story and historical perspective . I believe that you are the expert of your story and that you have many strengths that will assist you in this process while taking the initiative to improving upon understanding and awareness. of relevant factors that if addressed in appropriate structured treatment sessions have the capacity helping one manifest insight driven productive and achievable goals, and support to framing a better more comfortable and joyful future as reflective of one’s self strengths and building skills to help reinforce identifed effective strategies to bridge lifestyle changes and the other challenges that present along the way . The value of making and maintaining productive self management skills that are appropriate to one’s own unique situational challenges and informed with understanding and with an experienced seasoned therapist that has professional understanding and working knowledge of communication and active listening skills are important to understanding individual histories including how many different types of cultural and medical and demographics influencing personal perspective and considerations in efficiency of treatment with abundance of options available I hope to be a support to help guide you on this journey.