Teletherapy for Midtown District - San Diego, CA

Standing in the shower, letting hot water pour over my tired body, I wanted to lengthen my alone time. I already heard from the monitor that the baby was stirring, and the dog was sniffing under the door and pacing in front of the bathroom. As my brain reviewed the endless to-do list, I felt guilt creeping in for “indulging” in extra seconds in the warm shower stream. Therapists may tell you a shower isn’t self-care, but part of your basic needs. But as a working mom, it was my only self care time. A need to maximize aka multi-task was ever-present and bordering feelings of inadequacy. Despite all my efforts, I was overwhelmed.

My goal is to assist you in working through issues that negatively affect you in your daily life. I have experience working with relationship and family issues, sexual addiction, trauma, depression, anxiety, substance abuse/addiction, lack of motivation, and suicidal thoughts. I work with teens and adults in individual, couples, family, and groups.

I work with my clients to develop skills, insights, and understandings that they will integrate into their day-to-day lives. I tend to incorporate techniques that focus on mental frameworks, emotional processing, and behavioral patterns. We'll spend some time exploring your current needs and developing the most appropriate approach to enable you to experience meaningful change.

Hi there, I'm Giulia! I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and I provide individual, couples, family, children and youth counseling in a tele-therapy format or walk and talk therapy when clinically appropriate. It would be my privilege to offer a safe and collaborative space for bringing change and growth that will move you towards your desired goals in life.

Hello! I am a psychologist who offers a non-judgmental space to support integrative growth and healing (mind/body connection). My approach to therapy is tailored to the individual or family who seeks treatment and is ready for positive emotional and behavioral change. The structure of our sessions is a back and forth conversation: a place for you to feel heard and also receive specific tools and communication techniques to use in any area or relationship in your life.

Do you find current life challenges difficult to manage and want to feel happy and confident again? Do you struggle with anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, low energy, or general life dissatisfaction? I know that you are capable of healing and feeling joy again. You can feel more motivated, energized, and confident in your ability to take on challenges and make changes in your life. Together we will uncover your inner strengths and resources and help you feel at home with yourself. I can help you to utilize your energy into more productive actions to support your personal and professional growth.

One of my favorite aspects of being both a licensed clinician and a certified professional coach is the opportunity it affords me to connect with people and look at the larger picture. I am honored when a client allows me to be part of their journey. And I always learn so much from my client's unique stories and personal paths. I have created several personal values exploration workshops and enjoy working with clients on identifying and living in alignment with their core values.

In my clinical role, I work with a broad range of mental performance and mental health concerns including, but not limited to, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, identity issues, trauma, and sports-related mental performance concerns. I practice from a strength-based client-centered approach focusing on culturally informed evidence-based practice which attends to the unique diversity of the individual and the sociocultural environment in which the individual lives.

I approach life and therapy with the idea that we are all trying to gain safety and control in our lives. I enjoy helping individuals develop deeper relationships using strength-based, client-centered treatments including Cognitive Behavioral, mindfulness, and others to help further enrichment.

I approach the therapeutic relationship from an open and honest space. I believe in building a relationship that is supportive, genuine, and collaborative as well as challenging and directive. It is important to me to provide skills, tools, and options for individuals to feel empowered in managing their life challenges on their own. Healing and progress are often made with a wholistic approach that can include additional support from families, communities, groups, and non-traditional healing practices. Thus, striving to collaborate in creating a treatment plan that is both evidence-based and individualized.

In my clinical work, I utilize evidence-based practices including Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy – with specialized training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Informed Care, Narrative, Solution-Focused, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapies. My approach to the treatment and care of my clients is culturally sensitive, client-centered, and empathic. I am passionate about empowering clients to explore current and past challenges to gain insight into their strengths for recovery and goal achievements.

I’m Rachel Ganz and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nearly a decade of experience working with youth, young adults, and families in the San Francisco Bay Area. I view the therapeutic process as grounded in a relationship between equals: you bring the expertise on yourself and your life experiences, while I bring expertise on how to create a safe space for you to be vulnerable, open, and able to learn concrete skills and strategies to move forward in ways that better serve you.

Being a teen can be tough, so many ups and downs and feelings that seem out of control. Sadness, stress, negative thoughts, and overwhelming struggles can sometimes be too difficult to fight on your own. Sometimes it takes someone else's support to make changes for yourself. You don't have to do it alone because I am here to help. My goal in therapy is to work with you to explore what brings you down and to help and support you in finding what makes you whole.

Therapy is a journey of self-introspection, leaning into difficult matters and coming out better as a result. I will be your guide as you walk this path of looking inward to change or let go of those things that don't serve you. It's an uncovering of the good that is within and implementing strategies to maintain a life full of joy, contentment, and peace. I will help you uncover your values (what is important to you) and assist in taking committed action towards those values with skills such as mindfulness, opposite action, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance.

I am Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and believe that the way we talk to ourselves will determine how we feel and act. I want to know what you believe about yourself and how you feel about others and help you adjust your unhealthy thinking and replace your unhealthy acting out behaviors. With that, it is important to know your story and how your early life influenced these thoughts and beliefs, so I also use psychodynamic. I explore the unresolved issues that have contributed to unhealthy relationship patterns, self-destructive behaviors and poor self-worth so that the wounds of the past can be healed.

Together we strive to understand the life events, health and relationship issues that have interrupted or sidelined you. I utilize “ah ha” provoking techniques to help you open up to your truth and recognize who you are at the present time. My background in literature, the arts and intuitive studies means that I call on metaphor and expressive arts to advance our therapeutic goals. Together we lay the groundwork for habits which specifically work for you and that will endure for a lifetime, honoring self-compassion and acceptance. My job is to establish security and space for you to relax during our exploration.