Online Depth-Oriented Therapy for Creative Souls in Sonoma County & the North Bay Area
Finding Your Way Home to Yourself Through Online Therapy in Northern California
In the rolling hills of Sonoma County and throughout the North Bay Area, there exists a particular kind of seeker—someone who understands that healing isn't just about symptom relief, but about coming home to the fullness of who they are. If you're reading this from your home in Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Sebastopol, or anywhere across the North Bay, you may already sense that your journey requires something more than traditional approaches. You're seeking a therapeutic space where creativity meets depth, where all parts of you are welcomed with curiosity and compassion.
I offer online Internal Family Systems therapy and depth-oriented psychotherapy to emotionally curious individuals throughout California, with a special connection to the creative and spiritually-minded community of Sonoma County and the North Bay Area. My practice, Creating an Integrated Self, provides a sacred digital space where the various parts of you—the artist, the wounded child, the fierce protector, the wise elder—can emerge, be witnessed, and ultimately find harmony within your inner landscape.
The Journey of Integration: More Than Traditional Therapy
Perhaps you've walked the therapeutic path before. You've sat in offices, shared your story, and yet something still feels incomplete. The "why" behind your patterns remains elusive. The different voices within you continue their discord. You sense there's a deeper conversation waiting to happen—one that honors your complexity, your creativity, and your innate wisdom.
This is where our work begins. Through the screen, across the digital bridge that connects us, I create a container for exploration that feels both expansive and intimate. Online therapy removes the barriers of geography while maintaining the sacred quality of our therapeutic relationship. From your chosen space in Sonoma County or anywhere in the North Bay, you can engage in transformative work without the stress of commuting through Wine Country traffic or navigating busy highways.
Understanding Internal Family Systems: A Path to Inner Harmony
Internal Family Systems recognizes what poets and mystics have long known: we contain multitudes. Within you exists an entire ecosystem of parts, each with its own voice, needs, and protective strategies. Some parts carry burdens from the past—anxiety that whispers of danger, depression that pulls you into shadow, trauma that fragments your sense of wholeness. Other parts shine with creativity, wisdom, and profound sensitivity.
In our online sessions, I guide you in making contact with these different aspects of yourself. We approach each part with radical curiosity rather than judgment. The anxious part that keeps you awake at 3 AM? It has a story to tell. The creative part that yearns for expression but fears visibility? It deserves to be heard. Through gentle inquiry and compassionate witnessing, we begin the delicate work of integration.
This isn't about fixing what's broken—it's about understanding that nothing within you is truly broken at all. Each part developed for a reason, served a purpose, and continues to protect you in the only way it knows how. Our work together involves helping these parts update their understanding, release their burdens, and find new roles within your internal system.
The Creative Path: Expressive Arts and Depth Work
For the artists, writers, musicians, and creative souls of Sonoma County and the North Bay, traditional talk therapy often feels limiting. You think in images, metaphors, and symbols. Your truth emerges through creative expression as much as through words. I honor this way of being by weaving expressive arts therapy into our work, inviting you to explore your inner world through whatever medium calls to you.
Perhaps you'll create a visual map of your internal landscape, write dialogues between different parts, or use movement to embody and release stored emotions. The beauty of online therapy is that you have immediate access to your own creative supplies and sacred objects. Your art materials, journals, and instruments are right there with you, ready to become tools for transformation.
This creative exploration isn't separate from the therapeutic work—it is the work. Through artistic expression, we bypass the analytical mind's defenses and access deeper truths. The parts that struggle to speak in words often communicate fluently through color, texture, rhythm, and form.
Navigating Life Transitions with Depth and Grace
The North Bay Area attracts individuals in profound transition—people reimagining their lives, questioning old patterns, and seeking authentic expression. Whether you're navigating a career shift, relationship transformation, spiritual awakening, or that unnamed sense of languishing that can descend in your twenties, thirties, or forties, our work together provides a compass for the journey.
Life transitions often activate multiple parts simultaneously. The part that craves security conflicts with the part yearning for adventure. The responsible adult wrestles with the playful child. Through Internal Family Systems and depth-oriented psychotherapy, we create space for all these voices, helping them move from conflict to collaboration.
I understand that transitions aren't just external changes—they're initiations into new ways of being. They require us to shed old skins, grieve what we're leaving behind, and trust in a future we cannot yet see. This is sacred work that deserves a witness who can hold both the darkness and the light, the dissolution and the becoming.
The Online Therapeutic Container: Sacred Space in Digital Form
Meeting with clients online across Sonoma County, the North Bay, and throughout California, I recognize that together we create a protected therapeutic space beyond the limits of a physical office. Your chosen space becomes part of our work together. Perhaps you've created a corner filled with objects that ground and inspire you. Maybe you light a candle at the beginning of each session, marking the transition into sacred time.
Online therapy offers particular gifts for sensitive and intuitive individuals. You're in your own energetic space, surrounded by what nourishes you. After our sessions, you don't have to immediately reenter the outside world—you can take time to integrate, journal, create, or simply be with what emerged. The therapeutic work continues to unfold in the very space where you live your daily life.
Beginning Our Work Together: The Path Forward
If these words resonate with something deep within you, if you feel that flutter of recognition that says "yes, this," then perhaps it's time for us to meet. Our journey begins with a consultation where we explore what kind of support you're seeking, what you've done to tend to yourself, and what your previous therapeutic experiences have taught you about what works and what doesn't.
This initial conversation offers a felt sense of what it's like to be in session together. We're not just exchanging information—we're feeling into the quality of connection, the potential for depth, and whether this therapeutic relationship can hold what you need to explore.
Should we decide to work together, I conduct an intake assessment over our first three appointments. We'll gently explore different aspects of your story—family, cultural, and social contexts, as well as your medical and mental health history. From this foundation, we'll identify three to five goals to guide our work, creating a map for the journey while remaining open to unexpected discoveries.
The Ongoing Journey: Weekly Rhythms and Between-Session Integration
I typically work with clients on a weekly basis at a scheduled recurring time, creating a rhythm that supports deep exploration and integration. Our work extends beyond the session room through carefully crafted parts therapy prompts, journaling exercises, and creative explorations. These between-session practices help you maintain dialogue with the parts we've met, deepening your relationship with your inner world.
You might find yourself writing letters to a younger part, creating art that expresses a protector's fears, or using Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) to soothe an anxious part. These practices aren't homework—they're invitations to continue the conversation, to stay curious about your inner landscape, and to practice the self-compassion that transforms old patterns.
Begin Your Anxiety Healing Journey Today
If you're ready to transform your relationship with anxiety through creative, depth-oriented, and integrative therapy, I invite you to reach out. Together, we'll create a therapeutic space where anxiety becomes a teacher rather than a tormentor, where your sensitivity is honored as a gift, and where all parts of you are welcomed with curiosity and compassion.
Contact me today to schedule your consultation and discover how online Therapy for Anxiety can support your journey toward integration, healing, and authentic self-expression. Let's explore how we can work together to transform anxiety from an overwhelming force into a guide toward deeper self-understanding and wholeness.
