Everyone needs a neutral person to help support and guide them through life’s challenges, transitions and hurdles. I believe the most important aspect of therapy is having a trusting, nonjudgmental, and compassionate relationship with your therapist; therapy should feel safe, and provide you relief. I offer a safe space to share your true self, while learning tools to manage the obstacles in your life. I am trained in trauma work and use EMDR therapy as one of my approaches. I also provided clinical supervision for ASW who are looking to become a therapist.

Welcome to Affordable Quality Counseling We are San Diego psychologists and marriage and family therapists. We help individuals, couples and families to gain renewal, growth and development. Our goal is to assist you in realizing the highest level of self-fulfillment and well being. We replace negative feelings and self-limiting behaviors with a positive self-image, healthy coping skills, and a high level of personal satisfaction. As experienced counselors, we teach conflict resolution, anger management, parenting, and communication skills to enhance individual, marital and family relationships. Affordable Quality Counseling (AQC) intervenes to resolve negative feelings and behaviors like anger, oppositional attitudes and grief or loss between relationship partners, husbands and wives and parents and their adolescents or children. In addition, we help clients recovering from affairs and infidelity, co-dependency, sex addiction, impulse control disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder, including violent crimes like rape, domestic violence and physical, sexual or emotional abuse. We ascribe to a person-centered approach that makes use of specific psychotherapeutic interventions, based on present-time, solution focused strategies as well as caring and consistent feedback and support. We specialize in resolving depression, anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, work-related injuries, occupational and vocational issues, weight loss, dating/ internet dating problems, social isolation and interpersonal conflicts that affect mental health and self-esteem. AQC offers psychotherapy, consultation, training and crisis intervention services as well as help with addictions, including drug and alcohol abuse and dependence, relapse prevention and addiction recovery for adolescents and adults.

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist that approaches therapy with a holistic point of view. Over the past twelve years, I have had the opportunity to work with many diverse people from various cultures, ages ranges, and socio-economic systems. Many of the issues I assist with include Trauma/PTSD, sexual assault/molestation, stress/panic attacks, chronic pain, and relationship dynamics. I am also an expressive art therapist. That means I use right and left-brain processes such as breathing exercises, meditation, dominant/non-dominant handwriting, dance/movement, collage and art to access deeper elements of self for whole body healing. ​ My style is collaborative, empathic, compassionate, and with the utmost respect for your strengths and internal resources. I use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, psychodynamic, mindfulness, expressive arts and somatic psychotherapy to ensure you are able to calm anxiety, thrive after trauma, and rediscover your most precious assets. We will explore all of you including your bio-psycho-social-spiritual values, beliefs, and thought patterns. As a holistic psychotherapist, we co-create a system that looks at your diet, lifestyle choices, spiritual/religious beliefs, and the mind/body connection that accesses deeper aspects of yourself for whole body healing. I specialize in working with youth, adults, couples, and groups; many of whom consider themselves part of the LGBTQ community struggling with a variety of tribulations including life transitions, strong emotions of anxiety and/or anger, trauma, spirituality, and grief/bereavement. Prior to psychotherapy, I worked in the government and private sectors of information technology. My experience has given me a deep understanding of what it takes to optimize leadership, C-level executives, and motivate employees for optimal performance. Through my leadership and team building retreats and workshops, your team can master critical thinking, expand creativity, and foster innovation for business development and growth.