You Don’t Have to Go Through This Alone
Over 20 Years of Training and Experience
There is no universal approach to therapy. Lisa tailors high quality sessions specific to the needs of each client, reflecting their individual personality and goals.
Lisa is a depression and trauma specialist.
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Lisa discovered her interest in psychology at an early age. For her entire professional life, she has been committed to working with people struggling with mental health issues. She is in private practice in Santa Rosa and has worked in many agencies and community clinics throughout the Bay Area providing psychotherapy, training, and consultation.
She is trained to help people struggling with the whole spectrum of mood disorders. Depression and trauma issues can be layered and complicated. Lisa is committed to providing a wide variety of approaches that are useful, kind, and effective.
She has a healthy respect for traditional psychological modalities and a deep appreciation of ancient practices of Eastern traditions that offer a gateway to wholeness, healing, and greater well-being.
Lisa stays current on cutting-edge research in depression and trauma treatment and is encouraged by recent breakthroughs in neuroscience that suggest the brain can heal and change. This has profound implications for depression and trauma sufferers.
Many of the people who come to see Lisa for help with depression and trauma also have problems with childhood trauma or emotional neglect, relationship difficulties, separation and divorce, grief and loss, and borderline personality disorder.
Lisa offers LGBTQIA affirmative psychotherapy. She is committed to decreasing barriers to health care for transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary patients.
Lisa is dedicated to helping her clients have the most productive and fulfilling lives possible. People who seek help for their depression have the best chance ever for a healthier life with more connection, satisfaction, and overall sense of well-being.