Approach.

What makes Dr. Nina unique as a clinical psychologist is her interest in diversity, intersectionality, cultural background, spirituality, and their influence on our unique presence in the world. It’s important throughout therapy to make connections between the ways in which we are raised/our own uniqueness (the messages internalized), and how we show up in the present moment.

She enjoys working with individuals looking to up-level their lives, and live more consciously. Individuals that are excited to explore methods to live a more fruitful, fun, and expansive life work well with Dr. Nina’s style. Her clients tend to set treatment goals to worry less, laugh and appreciate more, and finally and most importantly, connect to our deepest authentic selves.

Dr. Nina’s style is warm, relational, evidence-based, and fun. She enjoys humor during appropriate moments, and spends mindful time developing a comfortable, compassionate, and empathetic therapeutic alliance with every client.

Every individual’s story deserves to be held tenderly and non-judgmentally. Utilizing a collaborative and goal-setting approach, she enjoys working side-by-side with each individual, to ensure the treatment chosen matches the individual or couple’s aligned values and goals.

Clinical Services.

 

Couple Therapy.

Dr. Nina has a special interest in treating couples. She is trained in Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy (IBCT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) , and Cognitive Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CBCT-PTSD). She has an additional special interest in providing Discernment Counseling. She enjoys helping couples to first and foremost develop emotional safety, and next, explore and heal past hurts. With a respectful and co-active therapeutic/working alliance, in combination with the couple’s motivation, the couple will accomplish their goals of communicating and connecting on a much deeper level, in addition to creating a lasting, healthy bond, filled with creativity and sensuality. Dr. Nina finds that exploration of barriers around all forms of intimacy are important in order for the couple to bond on a deeper level.

Mindfulness and breathwork exercises are oftentimes facilitated by Dr. Nina in session, to assist couple in attunement to self, and consequently, to ignite and manifest a deeper relationship with the other. She helps her couples create a personalized “tool kit” of strategies to assist in managing emotional triggers (and will teach the neuroscience behind these body responses). Emotional and physical triggers are very common for all relationships, and it’s important to identify those specific to each particular couple.

At times, the end result of couple therapy might be separation or divorce, if the couple should choose this route; respectively, Dr. Nina helps the couple explore the direction that fits their needs, in a respectful, emotionally safe, and collaborative manor.

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Individual Therapy.

Dr. Nina works with high performance/high achievement individuals from diverse backgrounds, and intersections of cultural identities. She helps individuals recover from burnout by strengthening the mind-body/nervous system connection, and by supporting the utilization of tools already within you, in order to prioritize nurturing of self, and to release creative blocks. She also utilizes unique strategies to increase assertiveness and boundary work in the workspace, as well as in personal relationships. This work will inevitably increase performance and productivity in the workforce and at home, while creating the life you want! She believes in the power of intention - tuning into self in order to live an authentic life, and inevitably decrease symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Dr. Nina has extensive training in evidence based treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, Anxiety, Depression, Perfectionism, Chronic Pain, as well as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She also integrates somatic experiencing and breathwork techniques into her work with clients, as an additional tool to assist in tuning into the body. Through her many years working in primary care medical settings, she also integrates stress reduction techniques and manualized treatments in order to help individuals manage chronic health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and stress-induced skin conditions. These treatments utilize behavioral strategies that are action oriented, values-based, and include short term goal setting.

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Special Interests.

While working within the fields of fertility medicine and primary care, Dr. Nina spent the majority of her career advocating for mental health care resources for individuals who identify as women.

Her mental health clinical care special interests include (but not limited to):

Fertility

Pregnancy and Postpartum

Body Image

Life Transitions

FAQs

  • 100% of my clients are treated virtually, via a HIPAA-compliant medical system. This was a thoughtful decision, as I would like to expand the range of the individuals and couples I treat. This virtual resource allows me to see clients throughout the state of California.

  • I do not treat children or adolescents. My clients are adults, specifically individuals and couples over the age of 18.

  • I am an independent contractor for the employee assistant program (EAP) Lyra Health. Additionally, I accept private pay clients. If your insurance plan offers out-of-network coverage (usually a PPO plan) for outpatient behavioral health or mental health, I am more than happy to provide you with a super-bill at the end of the month. You can submit this form to your insurance plan for partial or total reimbursement. Further, my sessions are variably eligible for HSA/FSA plans. I suggest you check with your individual insurance provider to verify the above information. Of note, full payment is due at the time of service.

  • My office policy is similar to the industry standard, which includes a 24 hour cancellation notice requirement. A patient ‘no show’, and/or failure to keep a scheduled appointment, without notification 24 hours in advance, will incur fees.

“You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still…”

-Eckhart Tolle