Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #153050
providing virtual therapy throughout California
Reconnect With What Matters Most
Down to Earth +Authentic+Meaning Centered Private Psychotherapy
Respectful of holistic, integrative, and non-Western healing frameworks.
My clients are people looking for a no adgenda, nurturing yet direct no nonsense approach and often don’t fit neatly into the conventional medical models or political boxes
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I work with adults navigating:
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Grief and loss (including non-death and ambiguous loss)
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Major life transitions and shifts
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Boundaries, self-trust, and self-worth
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Perfectionism, overwhelm, and chronic self-abandonment
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Repeated relational patterns
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Values clarification and meaning-centered work
Specialized areas of focus:
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Therapy for terminal illness and cancer
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Chronic illness and chronic pain
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Supporting life with cancer for those choosing alternative or integrative care
ABOUT PORCUPINE GARDEN PSYCHOTHERAPY
MY APPROACH
MEET DR T
My work is about helping people come home to themselves fully, honestly, and without apology.
I create a grounded, supportive space where you can slow down, tell be with truth about what’s actually happening in your life, and begin to untangle the thoughts, patterns, and relationships that pull you away from who you know yourself to be.
I believe in real therapy for real people. My style is direct, compassionate, and practical with warmth, precision, and a sense of humor. I will sit with you in the hard places, name what I see, challenge support and challenge you, and help you build the internal strength and boundaries to live with clarity and integrity.
In working with you I combine a strong behavioral and attachment-based foundation with a holistic, intuitive, and relational way of working. I integrate evidence-informed and experiential methods including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), attachment-based approaches, and existential and meaning centered psychotherapy
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These frameworks allow us to work at the levels of Nervous system regulation
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Emotional patterning
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Attachment and identity
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Meaning, values, and choice I don’t operate from a rigid agenda or a one-size-fits-all model. I respect your autonomy, your intelligence, and your lived experience. My role is not to tell you who to be or solve your problems. My role is more to help you:
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Strengthen self-trust
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Clarify what actually matters to you
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Interrupt the patterns that keep duplicating pain
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And build resilience from the inside out
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This work is both grounded and intuitive, direct and compassionate, rooted in science, guided by relationship, and paced to match your nervous system rather than overwhelm it.
"It should be remembered that a successful therapy requires
harmony of the physical and psychological functions, in order to achieve arestoration of the body in its entirety"
Max Gerson
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