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The pandemic has made what was once a small fraction of the psychotherapy world into the norm—remote sessions. I have found that a majority of patients, and once-skeptical clinicians, are satisfied with remote psychotherapy and plan to continue on with it once...

Self-care has become a trendy term recently. I remember hearing it for the first time in graduate school and being utterly confused. Does self-care mean to care for the self? Aren’t I doing that all of the time? I felt confused and lost by this term. Eventually, I...

​I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, so we are inundated with tech more than your average person. Most people I know are either working in tech of some kind or have a partner working in tech. I hear about research and development of therapy in terms of artificial...

Its very normal to be nervous before your first therapy appointment. It can be scary to share your life with a stranger. You probably have ideas and images in your mind about who you think your therapist is and how they may be. You might have dreams and hopes for the...

This is the most important question that isn’t asked enough. I do believe that if you ask one hundred therapists and one hundred patients to define their experience of therapy, you will get a different answer from every person. For me, therapy is a unique experience...

Every therapist is different in how they structure their sessions, but this is how I work. After we have a short phone consultation and determine a time to have our sessions, I will send you some paperwork and the phone number for my billing company if you are using...

Many people believe they can’t afford therapy. It can be expensive, but there are options other than just paying full fee out of pocket. There are excellent training centers that provide low-fee or sliding scale options for those who qualify. Some training centers,...

There are many ways to find a good therapist. If you have a friend or family member who has a therapist they love, that could be a good place to start. That therapist will be able to assist you in giving a few recommendations for clinicians they respect. I also...

There has been a new wave of Youtube videos recently, and it is bursting the idealized bubble of massive stardom. Numerous Youtube celebrities have created videos that show glimpses into the darker, more realists aspects of their lives. These are not the smiling...