Imagine your conscious mind as the part of an iceberg visible above water. My approach explores the vast, mysterious continent beneath the surface, where your dreams originate, where your deepest patterns were forged, where the unspoken family stories continue to influence your choices.

This integrative method, rooted in depth psychology principles, trusts that your inner world has its own intelligence, its own timing, its own way of communicating through symptoms, dreams, strong reactions, and recurring life patterns. It recognizes that you're far more complex and wise than your everyday awareness realizes.

Rather than simply managing symptoms or modifying behaviors, we get curious about their deeper significance. Why do you keep recreating similar relationship dynamics? What is your body trying to communicate through physical symptoms? What aspects of yourself went into hiding during childhood and are now seeking recognition?

This isn't about endless analysis or remaining stuck in your past. It's about understanding the underground rivers that feed your current life so you can make choices from authentic wisdom rather than unconscious compulsion or inherited programming.

Perimenopause represents far more than a medical transition, it's a profound psychological and spiritual passage. From a depth psychology perspective, your inner wisdom is orchestrating this biological change to facilitate a deeper transformation of identity and purpose.

Those mood fluctuations, sleep disruptions, and moments of not recognizing yourself aren't just hormonal inconveniences. They're invitations to examine which aspects of your life no longer serve who you're becoming. What roles and identities are ready to be shed? What parts of yourself have been waiting for permission to emerge?

We work together to understand both the physiological realities of hormonal changes and the psychological metamorphosis your unconscious is facilitating. Many women discover that when they approach perimenopause as a sacred initiation rather than merely a medical event, the entire experience becomes a gateway to greater authenticity and freedom.

Having served as both a CEO and Naval Officer, and currently serving on three boards, I understand the particular psychological challenges of leadership. But here's what depth psychology adds: many leadership struggles aren't just about external pressures, they're about unconscious patterns, inherited beliefs, and parts of the self that were shaped long before you ever had a corner office.

Maybe imposter syndrome connects to childhood beliefs about worthiness. Maybe the inability to delegate stems from unconscious fears about being seen as weak. Maybe decision fatigue is connected to taking on everyone else's responsibility as a way to feel valuable.

When we understand these deeper patterns, everything changes. You're not just managing leadership challenges, you're transforming the unconscious beliefs that create them. This allows you to lead from authentic strength rather than protective strategies.

Trauma lives in the body, the mind, and the depths of your inner world. It shapes not just your nervous system, but your entire inner landscape, your dreams, your beliefs about safety and worthiness, the parts of yourself that went into hiding for protection.

Using depth psychology alongside somatic work and EMDR, we address not just what happened, but how it lives in your unconscious patterns. We work to reclaim the parts of yourself that split off or went underground, honor what they did to protect you, and help them understand that you're safe enough now to live differently.

This isn't about "getting over" trauma, it's about integration, bringing all the scattered parts of yourself back home.

I am currently an out-of-network provider and will provide detailed receipts (superbills) for each session that you can submit to your insurance for possible reimbursement. Reimbursement varies by plan, so understanding your specific benefits is important.

Depth work doesn't follow a timeline, it follows the rhythm of your inner wisdom. Some people with focused concerns benefit from shorter-term work. Others addressing deeper patterns, complex trauma, or major life transitions may work together for several months to years.

The beauty of depth psychology is that it honors your unconscious wisdom about timing. We'll regularly check in about your progress and goals, but we also trust that your deeper self knows what it needs and when.

Reach out to schedule a complimentary 15-minute conversation. During this call, we'll discuss what's stirring in your depths, answer initial questions, and determine if moving forward together feels right. If so, we'll schedule your first appointment in my Newport Beach office or via telehealth, whatever feels most comfortable for you.

While my office is in Newport Beach, I offer telehealth services throughout California, including Orange County communities like Irvine, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, and Santa Ana, as well as Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and beyond.