I'm a private-pay practice, which means I don't bill insurance directly. Many clients use out-of-network benefits — I provide a superbill after each session that you can submit to your insurance for partial reimbursement. Before your first appointment, it's worth calling the member services number on your insurance card and asking specifically about your out-of-network outpatient mental health benefits.

The first step is a free 20-minute consultation. It's a low-pressure conversation, not a therapy session, where you can ask questions, get a sense of how I work, and we can figure out together whether we're a good fit.

To schedule, contact me to book directly or call/text at (925) 246-5799 I'll follow up within one business day.

Honest answer: it depends on what you're bringing in, and what you're working toward.

For clients dealing with a specific transition, a targeted stressor, or building a concrete set of skills, meaningful progress often happens within three to six months of consistent weekly sessions. For clients working on longer-standing patterns — how they relate to others, how they move through high-pressure environments, what's underneath chronic anxiety — the work tends to run deeper and longer.

What I can tell you is that I don't keep clients in therapy longer than is useful. Part of my job is helping you build capacity so you need me less, not more. We'll check in regularly on how the work is tracking, and you'll always have a clear sense of where we are.

Yes. I offer telehealth sessions to clients anywhere in California and Utah. I also offer in-person sessions in Walnut Creek, Ca. Most of my clients find that telehealth works just as well as in-person — sometimes better, since you can go right back to your day without a commute.

Sessions are conducted through a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform. All you need is a private space and a reliable internet connection.

If you're unsure whether telehealth is a good fit for what you're working on, we can talk through it during a free consultation.

This is one of the most practical questions you can ask, and it deserves a real answer.

Progress in therapy isn't always linear, but there are concrete signs it's working: you're catching yourself in old patterns before you're already in them; you're reacting differently to situations that used to derail you; you're able to return to your baseline faster after hard moments. For high-achieving clients especially, early progress often shows up as a shift in how you move through your life — with less internal friction — before it shows up in external outcomes. But that said, it moves at the pace your nervous system allows. I always honor your pace.

Both can support growth, but they're not interchangeable — and the distinction matters depending on what you're actually dealing with.

A licensed therapist (like an LMFT) has graduate-level clinical training and is credentialed by a state licensing board. We're trained to work with the full range of human experience, including anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship patterns, and the ways your history shapes your present. Therapy is also regulated — there are legal and ethical standards that protect you.

Coaching is unregulated. There's no universal licensing requirement, no standardized training, and significant variation in what coaches are actually equipped to address. Coaches can be skilled at goal-setting and accountability, but they're not trained to work with clinical presentations or trauma.

If you're high-functioning on the outside but feel like something's running underneath that doesn't respond to productivity strategies then that's usually a therapy question, not a coaching question. description