This is root level healing
Feel more like yourself again.Psychotherapy for anxiety, perfectionism, chronic stress, trauma, and the patterns that have left you feeling disconnected from yourself.
You’ve gotten very good at holding it all together.
You’re capable. Responsible. The person others can count on.
But underneath it, you may be exhausted from overthinking, anticipating what could go wrong, trying to get things right, or paying so much attention to what everyone else needs that you’ve lost touch with yourself.
Maybe you notice:
Your mind rarely really turns off.
You second-guess yourself, even when you know what you think.
You feel responsible for keeping everything and everyone okay.
You’re exhausted, but have trouble truly resting.
You know how to take care of other people but aren’t always sure what you need.
You notice shifts in other people’s moods and reactions—and can spend a lot of time wondering if someone is upset with you.
These patterns didn't come from nowhere. And you don't have to keep living inside them.
Therapy that goes deeper than managing symptoms.
Anxiety, Overthinking & Perfectionism
When your mind won't slow down and you're exhausted from worrying, second-guessing, people-pleasing, or trying to get everything right.
Trauma, Chronic Stress & Nervous System Healing
When you understand what's happened intellectually, but your body and automatic responses still seem stuck in old patterns.
Relationships, Boundaries & Losing Yourself
You’re often so aware of what other people need, want, or feel that it can be hard to hear yourself. You may avoid conflict, have trouble asking for what you need, or finally speak up only to second-guess yourself afterward. Over time, adapting to everyone around you can leave you wondering what you actually want.
Understanding yourself is important. But sometimes insight isn't enough.
You may already know why you overthink, people-please, push yourself too hard, or have difficulty trusting yourself. And yet when the pattern gets activated, you find yourself right back in it.
My approach integrates traditional psychotherapy with EMDR and somatic therapy, including principles from Somatic Experiencing. This allows us to work not only with what you think and understand, but with the emotional and nervous-system responses that can be harder to change through talking alone.
The goal isn't to make you less caring, capable, or driven.
It's to help you stop abandoning yourself in the process.
You can learn to trust yourself more. To know what you want and say what you need. To set boundaries without endlessly questioning them. To feel more at home in yourself. And to make choices based on what matters to you—not just what feels safest, what you think you should do, or how someone else might respond.
You don’t have to know exactly how everything will turn out before you move toward something you want. Part of the work is learning that you can take risks, tolerate disappointment, change course when you need to, and trust yourself to handle what comes next.
The goal isn’t to become certain. It’s to trust yourself enough to choose.
Hi, I’m Erin.
I’m a clinical psychologist with more than 20 years of experience, and I work especially well with women who are thoughtful, insightful, and often already understand a lot about themselves.
You may know why you overthink, why it’s hard to set boundaries, or where your patterns began. You may have done therapy before. And still, knowing why you do something doesn’t always make it easier to do something different.
That’s where I tend to work best.
My approach brings together traditional psychotherapy, EMDR, and somatic therapy to help you work not only with what you understand intellectually, but with the emotional and nervous-system patterns that can keep pulling you back into familiar ways of responding.
My style is warm, engaged, collaborative, and gently challenging. I’m interested not only in helping you understand yourself more deeply, but in helping you use that understanding to live differently—with more self-trust, freedom, and room to be fully yourself.
I offer in-person therapy in Oakland and telehealth throughout California
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Something in you already knows it's time.
Psychotherapy for women in Oakland and throughout California who struggle with anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, chronic stress, trauma, and feeling disconnected from themselves.