Inner Expansions provides individual counseling to adolescents and adults and well as couples counseling. Our therapist all have advanced training in specific modalities to help clients heal and live the life they deserve.
Client Focus
Session Format: Couple, Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adolescent, Adult, Young Adult
Demographic Expertise: Hispanic / Latino, LGBTQ+, Men, Women clients.
Languages: English, Spanish, ASL
Treatment Approach
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
EMDR
Internal Family Systems
Psychoeducational
Relational Psychotherapy
Approach Description: EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an integrative psychotherapy approach that has been extensively researched and proven effective for the treatment of trauma. EMDR therapy is an integrative psychotherapy method that uses a technique called "dual attention stimulus" to repeatedly activate opposite sides of the brain. Therapists often use eye movements to facilitate bilateral stimulation. These eye movements mimic the period of sleep referred to as rapid eye movement or REM sleep, and this portion of sleep is frequently considered to be the time when the mind processes the recent events in the person’s life. This helps the brain reprocess the trapped memories in such a way that normal information processing is resumed. Therapists often use EMDR to help clients uncover and process beliefs that developed as the result of relational traumas, or childhood abuse and/or neglect. For a more detailed explanation please visit the EMDR Institute, Inc.
IFS - Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy that helps people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts with the guidance of a trained IFS therapist. IFS creates both inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self-Energy and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts.
CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidenced based treatment modality that helps people look at their unhelpful ways of thinking and behaving and to replace these unhelpful strategies with more beneficial thinking patterns and behaviors. This approach helps people cope better with the challenges of life by recognizing distorted beliefs and gaining a better understanding of the behavior and motivations of others.
Education & Credentials
Inner Expansions Therapy Services
Female
License # LCS28917
Licensed in California
Practicing Since 2009
Finances
Fees
Average Session Fee $145-$175
Affordable sliding scale therapy: apply if you may be eligible.
A limited number of reduced fee spots are available based on financial and clinical need.
Insurance
Accepts Insurance
Anthem Blue Cross of California, CenCal, MediCare, and Aetna
Inner Expansions Therapy Services Practice Details
Take the Santa Rosa Road exit off the 101. Turn east towards El Camino Real. Take a right onto El Camino and a right into the parking lot. Park in the back of the building and take the stairs or elevator to the 3rd floor. The office is located above the Nest Restaurant next to the Post Office.