Depth-oriented therapy, fifteen minutes up El Camino.
In-person at 667 Lytton Avenue in Palo Alto, two Caltrain stops away — or by video anywhere in California, including before the working day starts.
Free 15-min consultation · 50-minute sessions
The office is at 667 Lytton Avenue in downtown Palo Alto, a block from University Avenue and a five-minute walk from the Palo Alto Caltrain station — two stops from Mountain View. By car it is about fifteen minutes up El Camino or Alma outside peak hours.
From Castro Street or the neighbourhoods around it, that is a manageable weekly trip. From North Bayshore in the evening it is worth allowing more time, or using video, which is available throughout California.
I hold some early-morning slots, which for people commuting north is often the only version of this that works.
A large share of the people I see from Mountain View work in technology, and a large share of those arrived in this country for the work. Both of those facts shape what therapy is about.
Achievement that stopped counting. The pattern of doing everything correctly — the degree, the visa, the offer, the mortgage — and finding that the feeling everyone promised would arrive has not.
Employment that is not only employment. When a job carries your immigration status, staying in a role that is quietly eroding you is not a matter of preference. That constraint deserves to be spoken about somewhere that is not a performance review.
Distance from family. Parents in another time zone who cannot picture your daily life, a sense of obligation that no amount of success settles, and the strange grief of building a life somewhere your childhood does not exist.
The couple that has become logistics. Two demanding careers, possibly small children, and a relationship that now runs on scheduling. Nothing is wrong. Nothing is happening either.
Gestalt and depth-oriented therapy: less explanation, more attention to what is actually happening while you speak. Fifty minutes, usually weekly, open-ended.
Most people arrive able to describe their situation with real clarity and entirely unchanged by the description. The work is in the gap between those two things — and reaching it means slowing down considerably further than is comfortable for people who solve problems for a living.
The first conversation is fifteen minutes and free. You ask what you need to. If I am not the right person, I will say so and help you find someone who is.
Around fifteen minutes up El Camino or Alma outside peak hours, and two stops on Caltrain from Mountain View station to Palo Alto with a five-minute walk at the other end. Coming from North Bayshore, allow a little more in the evening.
I hold some early-morning and evening slots. For a lot of people the realistic options are before the day starts or after it ends, and therapy that does not fit the calendar does not happen.
Yes, and often. Employment tied to immigration status changes what a difficult job actually costs you, and it is worth being able to say that plainly somewhere. Nothing discussed in therapy is shared with an employer or reported to immigration authorities.
I work in English. That said, a good deal of this work is about things that were never verbal in the first place, and people frequently find that the emotional vocabulary of a first language surfaces anyway. That is welcome rather than a problem.
For most of this work, yes. What matters is that it is the same person each week over a sustained period. If in person is possible it adds something; if it is the difference between therapy happening and not, video wins easily.
In-network with Aetna, Wellfleet and Stanford SHIP. Superbills for other PPO plans.