MS, MFTC – Therapist & Founder

Karli has spent her professional life attempting to understand how individuals are impacted by devastating events. With research training in social and clinical psychology at University of California at Irvine, she is attuned to how society at large and differences between individuals both influence how we navigate the painful experiences that bring us to therapy.

Karli is a pragmatist. Though she regards the power of psychotherapy as a sacred endeavor, she is fundamentally interested in seeking out solutions and change that actually work. 

She has worked in eating disorder treatment at the residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient levels with adolescents and adults. Karli has long studied the ways that the body keeps the score. In addition to talk therapy, Karli teaches trauma-sensitive yoga and values movement, as she believes the body can also help move us through our pain toward more resilience, joy, and connection. 

Karli is trained as a generalist who enjoys working with an array of clients with various needs, though she particularly enjoys working with people who have tried therapy before but have not yet found relief or were “turned off” by their previous experience. Skeptics are welcome!

Accepting:
Adults, Couples, Teenagers, Families, Children (4 & up)

Areas of Clinical Interest:
Children and their Caregivers
Couples Experiencing Conflict Around Parenting Styles, Sexual Intimacy, and Finances.
Individuals Seeking to Shift Long-Standing Patterns

Families and individuals impacted by more severe mental health conditions and experiences (psychosis, eating disorders, incest trauma).

Veterans and First Responders

MS, MFTC – Therapist & Founder

Rubén has spent 15+ years figuring out how to help people get unstuck from conflict.

He began his career with Doctors Without Borders and other organizations, working worldwide to set up emergency healthcare projects in response to armed conflict, disasters, and epidemics. For the past ten years, he has taught negotiations and conflict management in corporate and healthcare settings, including as a faculty member of the Stanford University Physician Leadership Certificate Program.

Ruben believes therapy is about creating the change that will most quickly and sustainably lead to the life people want to lead. For some people, the focus of change is their emotional life; for others, their thought process; and sometimes, the lingering effects of past painful experiences. For some clients, the quickest way to change is to gain insight into the root causes of what troubles them, often starting in childhood; for others, it’s learning new communication skills or ways of thinking in the here and now.

It is often a combination, and Ruben works with his clients to find the right approach for them.

Ruben works with individuals and couples who are in intense distress and are coming to therapy as their last resort, as well as clients who are undergoing significant life transitions or who find themselves repeating familiar patterns they would like to change.

Accepting:
Adults, Couples, Families
Spanish-speaking clients

Areas of Clinical Interest
Men who are navigating anxiety & depression

Individuals looking to change familiar, unhealthy patterns

Couples and families experiencing intense communication difficulties

MSc, MS, MFTC – Therapist & Founder

Maya has dedicated her life to understanding how people make meaning of their experiences and then try to communicate them to the world.

Originally trained as a sociologist at Oxford University, she then went to work at Stanford Hospital, where she conducted research on how different medical professions interact with each other in ways that can radically impact patients’ experiences. Committed to understanding developmental psychology and the mind-body connection, she has also taught preschool and yoga.

Maya enjoys working with clients who are unsure if therapy is right for them but are willing to try it—whether that’s men considering therapy for the first time, couples wondering if trust can be rebuilt, or teenagers suspicious of how an adult might be able to help.

Accepting:
Adults, Couples, Teenagers, Children (4 & up)

Areas of Clinical Interest:
Coping in Adolescence

Masculinity and Isolation

Trust and Communication in Relationships