Offering Online IFS and EMDR Therapy across California
Therapy for Adults Who Are Struggling in Their Closest Relationships, including adult children of emotionally immature or narcissistic parents
When Success on the Outside Doesn’t Match How You Feel Inside
Relief from Anxiety, Overwhelm, and Family & Relational Trauma
You’re smart, capable, and driven. You’ve achieved many of the goals valued by your family, culture, or profession, yet underneath it all you may feel emotionally exhausted, disconnected, or overly responsible for everyone else’s feelings. Many of my clients learned to overfunction, people please, and suppress their own needs while growing up in emotionally immature family systems.
Whether you're a working professional, caregiver, or parent of young children, you may find yourself repeating painful relationship patterns, struggling with guilt around boundaries, or longing for deeper and more authentic connection. Using IFS and EMDR, I help clients move beyond insight alone to heal the deeper roots beneath the overwhelm.
My clients across California often leave therapy feeling more confident in who they are, less emotionally burdened, and better able to relate to others with greater honesty, confidence, and care.
How IFS and EMDR Support Deep Emotional Healing
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
Understand and heal the protective patterns you had to develop because of difficult family dynamics, including childhood emotional neglect, parentification, people pleasing and poor boundaries. Level 3 trained.EMDR Therapy
EMDR Therapy helps resolve the lingering effects of childhood trauma, emotionally immature parenting, anxiety, and painful relationship experiences.
Specialized Support for Emotional and Relational Trauma
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature or Narcissistic Parents
Many clients come to therapy struggling with the lasting impact of emotionally immature or narcissistic parenting, including emotional neglect, parentification, guilt, loyalty binds, and difficulty maintaining healthy boundaries.These early experiences can shape adult relationship patterns, resulting in chronic self-doubt, taking too much responsibility for others, or feeling emotionally unsafe even in close relationships.
Overfunctioning or Perfectionism
If you are someone who has learned to hold everything together, anticipate others’ needs, or take on more responsibility than your share, you may be living in patterns of overfunctioning and people-pleasing.These patterns often develop in response to emotional neglect or inconsistent emotional attunement in childhood. While they can lead to external success, they often come at the cost of emotional exhaustion, resentment, and disconnection from your own needs.
IFS Intensives
These extended therapy sessions lead to more rapid healing and transformation. These intensive sessions are ideal for clients looking for immersive work to address deep-rooted issues in a shorter time frame.
Learn more about IFS therapy or EMDR and how they support deeper healing.
Let’s heal what is holding you back!
Hi, I’m Michelle. Welcome!
I'm so glad you are here and considering beginning the journey toward the life you want
If you're smart, capable, and quietly exhausted from giving everything to others while struggling in your closest relationships you're in the right place. I offer a safe, non-judgmental space to work through tough emotions and challenges—so you can breathe a little easier and trust yourself more. I'm known for being easy to talk to and for truly understanding what you're going through.
I'm a California licensed therapist with over 25 years of experience with expertise in IFS and EMDR therapy for high-functioning adults. Many of my clients are highly capable adults who grew up in emotionally immature families. Despite your outward success, do you still find yourself struggling with painful relationships? Do you long for deeper authentic connection? Using IFS and EMDR, I work at a deeper level than traditional talk therapy to help create change that truly lasts.
My integrative approach is designed to help you heal from your past and awaken/discover your inherent strengths.
Let’s focus together on healing the deeper roots of overfunctioning, perfectionism, emotional disconnection, and painful family relationships. My personalized approach to healing helps you to tap into your own strengths and self-worth, and become the person you've always wanted to be!
It’s never too late to create the life and relationships you truly want. Let’s take the next step together.
Therapy can help if you have been facing challenges like these:
✓The pressure from society and loved ones leaves you feeling overwhelmed.
✓ Compassion and a listening ear are no longer enough to address your needs in therapy.
✓ Family and relationships leave you cycling between guilt, resentment, and longing
✓ You're accomplished on the outside but feel disconnected from yourself on the inside
✓ You long for relationships that feel honest, safe, and truly close
✓Feelings of doubt, frustration, and anxiety persist, leaving you stuck.
✓You identify as an adult child of emotionally immature parents
The work we do goes deeper than coping strategies or advice. Instead, I'll help you access the wisdom and clarity that already lives within you. If you're ready to slow down, explore, and not just cope, I think you'll find this work deeply rewarding.
You don’t have to keep managing alone. Let’s find out if we’re a good fit!
As a Level 3 trained IFS therapist with over 25 years of experience, I offer online therapy to adults across all of California