Individual Therapy for Adults in California
Therapy for people-pleasing, anxious attachment, relationships, boundaries, family dynamics, and first-generation experiences, with plenty of room for everything that doesn’t fit neatly into a category.
What Therapy With Me Actually Looks Like
I mainly use person-centered, psychodynamic, and CBT approaches, along with humanistic, narrative, multicultural, and solution-focused therapy.
In normal-person language: sometimes we’re figuring out where a pattern came from. Sometimes we’re looking at why it keeps happening now. Sometimes you need insight, sometimes you need an actual tool to try this week, and usually we need a little bit of everything.
I’m warm and validating, but I’m also active in the conversation. I’ll ask questions, point out patterns, offer another perspective, and help you connect some dots. And yes, we can laugh. You are allowed to have a personality in therapy.
Therapy for People-Pleasing & Boundaries in California
You’re thoughtful. You care about people. You don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. None of those things are the problem.
It gets harder when keeping everyone else happy means constantly overriding yourself. We can work on noticing what you actually want, communicating it, and getting more comfortable with the fact that someone else having feelings about your boundary doesn’t automatically make it a bad one.
We might talk about: saying no, guilt, over-explaining, conflict avoidance, resentment, self-trust, and figuring out what you want before checking with everyone else.
Anxious Attachment & Relationship Therapy in California
Relationships can bring out some very specific versions of us.
A delayed text suddenly feels important. A small disagreement becomes evidence that something is wrong. You want reassurance, then worry you’re asking for too much reassurance. Your brain has opened seventeen tabs and apparently none of them can be closed.
We can work on understanding what happens for you in relationships and building more security without pretending the goal is to never need another person again.
We might talk about: anxious attachment, reassurance-seeking, communication, trust, conflict, fear of rejection, overthinking, and recurring relationship patterns.
Therapy for Family Dynamics in California
Families are complicated because you can understand exactly why someone is the way they are and still be incredibly annoyed with them.
You can love your family and need more space. You can appreciate what they’ve done for you and feel hurt by things they’ve done. You can be tired of always being the responsible one, the peacekeeper, the fixer, or the black sheep without wanting to cut everyone off and move to another country.
There’s room for the whole relationship here.
We might talk about: family roles, parent relationships, sibling dynamics, guilt, expectations, conflict, childhood experiences, and changing patterns without losing yourself in the process.
Therapy for First-Generation Adults in California
A lot of therapy advice sounds very straightforward until you add family, culture, community, and a lifetime of expectations.
“Just do what makes you happy” is not always particularly helpful when your choices don’t feel like they affect only you.
We can talk about what you were taught, what you genuinely value, what you want to carry forward, and what you’re ready to do differently. The goal isn’t to choose between your culture and yourself. There’s a lot more room than that.
We might talk about: cultural expectations, family responsibility, identity, guilt, independence, belonging, generational differences, and figuring out what feels like yours.
Therapy for Anxiety, Depression & Life Transitions in California
Sometimes there isn’t one relationship or family situation you can point to. Life just feels heavier than it used to.
Anxiety, depression, stress, changes in relationships, school or career transitions, self-esteem, and old experiences can all affect the way you feel day to day. We can slow things down enough to understand what’s happening and figure out what would actually be helpful now.
You don’t need to know exactly what category your experience belongs in before coming to therapy. That’s not a prerequisite.
Investment
$150 per 50-minute session
Free 15-minute consultation
Aji is a private-pay therapist and does not bill insurance directly. Superbills are available if you have out-of-network benefits.
A superbill is essentially a detailed receipt for therapy that you can submit to your insurance company for possible reimbursement. Your reimbursement will depend on your individual plan, so it’s worth checking your out-of-network mental health benefits beforehand.
Private Pay • Superbills Available • HSA/FSA Accepted
Let’s See If We’re a Good Fit
You don’t have to figure out which specialty you fall under before reaching out. Real life is rarely that organized anyway.
If you’re looking for therapy that feels warm, conversational, culturally aware, and actually useful outside of the therapy room, I’d love to hear from you.