Therapy for Kensington, California.
Kensington sits on the hill right above Albany — a five-minute drive down Arlington and Colusa to the San Pablo Avenue office. For a village this quiet and this established, most of the work that brings people in isn't loud: it's grief that finally has room to land, a retirement that has scrambled a sense of identity, a long-carried anxiety that a person has decided is worth addressing before another decade goes by.
Sessions happen in person at the Albany office — an easy hop down the hill — or by secure video from your own home when the weather, the road, or the day says stay put.
Grief, transition, and long-quiet anxiety.
Loss of a partner, a parent, a sibling — and the way grief rearranges the whole architecture of a life. The identity questions that come after a long career ends. Anxiety that was manageable at 40 and is suddenly not at 65. Old experiences — sometimes from very early — that a body has carried politely for a very long time.
Something more than talking.
Many people who find their way to this practice have already done a great deal of thoughtful therapy. EMDR, Flash and Brainspotting reach the parts of memory that talking alone can't — the somatic register where old grief and old fear are actually stored — and let the nervous system finally set them down.
Body, mind & brain — engaged.
Reprocess memories that keep resurfacing.
Gentle, fast — without re-living it.
Tap into calm you can take home.
Body-based release beneath language.
A short conversation first.
Fifteen minutes on the phone. No pressure to decide anything.