I’m a therapist in Oakland and online in California.
I’m most passionate about empowering folks to feel free to be who they are and to realize that who they are is enough.
I work with people to help them make sense of what they’ve been through and to let it go so they can make the most of their life. I want people to know that what they have been through does not determine who they are or what’s to come.
Hi, I’m jamie.
HOw i got here
My path here began most obviously as a teenager when I began to experience panic attacks and anxiety that made life unbearable. Looking back, it’s obvious that the seeds of those panic attacks had been planted long before, and the clues along the way were ignored until they could be no longer. For what felt like a long time, no one could figure out how to help or why it was happening. I felt lost, alone and terrible about myself. Therapy was a key piece of finally getting out of there. What helped the most was having this other person - my therapist - who was emotionally safe and nonjudgmental. She had ideas about how to help me and was committed to doing so.
The best way I have learned to heal is by reconnecting to my human nature through slowing down, checking in with my body, and exploring memories of my life that connect to how I feel in the present. Reconnecting to the more-than-human world has also been a big piece of my healing.
I’m human just like you working to be intentional and awake while also trying to show myself some compassion when I mess up.
When the hardest times of my life happened, I had no idea how to get through them and I felt so alone.
I know now it didn’t have to be that hard so I became a therapist to help guide and accompany others through their hardest times.
Credentials, training & Experience
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) #137003
Master’s, Counseling Psychology, Somatic Psychology emphasis, California Institute of Integral Studies
Almost a decade of consultation with experienced therapists who work with the body-mind connection (somatic therapy) and who focus on how early experiences and relationships shape our future and future relationships (psychodynamic therapy and attachment-based therapy).
Trained at The Center for Healing Shame: Intro to Healing Shame; Healing Shame in Men; Healing Shame in Couples
The Flash Technique for working with disturbing memories and PTSD symptoms
Therapy for Highly Traumatized Clients Training Level 1
1-year school internship with Bay Area teens emerging from the pandemic
1-year internship at La Cheim Behavioral Health Services - adult group and individual therapy in a partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient setting.
Group Facilitator of DBT groups, suicidal thoughts groups, and general support and process groups.