Hi there, I’m Alia.
Perhaps you've come to believe that your whole self isn't welcome. Experiences of disconnect and conditionality might leave you feeling isolated and unseen. Anxiety and shame may have convinced you of an "otherness" when these differences are, instead, essential clues into your own creativity and liberation. The right therapeutic relationship can allow for the retrieval of self and soul. As a psychotherapist, I reference my advanced training and certification in Jungian, psychodynamic, and transpersonal psychotherapies. I work with individuals developing meaningful insight into, and empathy for, the fragmented pieces. I’m a second generation American who grew up in the East Bay. I value my sobriety and love working with all sorts of audio-visual mediums in my free time.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#140256) providing psychotherapy in California. I support individuals in finding meaning and gaining insight into experiences with self esteem and identity. I’m moved by the ways in which psychotherapy can support the depth of one’s transpersonal and interpersonal experience. Many of my clients are highly sensitive, creative individuals working to more-consciously engage their inner world. Sometimes this arrives as a depression, a relational rupture, a conflict of identity.
In our world, these experiences are vulnerable to being pathologized, two-dimensionalized and flattened into a diagnostic stasis. The world of archetypal psychology, however, might welcome these “arrivals” to more-fully observe their potency and poetry— how might their presence evoke consciousness? In what ways could they be informing and protecting your personal myth? Where might they fit into the larger tapestry of your ancestral wisdom? Do they approach you aurally, visually, in dreams or in waking imagination? The instinctive nature in which one might be able to answer points us toward soul. The right psychotherapeutic relationship can allow for a ritualizing of this psychic data, to be engaged with curiosity and reverence. Where meaning can be made, soul can be tended to. I work to maintain a space of dignity and safety— honoring the unique history and wisdom that arrives with you. My approach is relational, trauma-informed and non-pathologizing, seeking to re-mystify your personal narrative with curiosity and warmth.