| About Me… My name is Jana (pronounced Ya’-na). I am a Registered Licensed Marriage, Family, and Child Therapist, EMDR practitioner, and certified hypnotherapist in Northern California. I specialize in the treatment of attachment trauma, which often impacts the quality of relationships and the ability to enjoy life. I work with all ages and any configuration of relationships including individuals, couples, families, friendships, and workplace dynamics. My passion for helping others heal and claim their freedom from past wounds continues to energize me. |
| What you can expect… Working together to address your concerns and symptoms, you will be an active participant in your healing journey. You can expect to be treated with respect and sensitivity in a safe, judgment-free environment that fosters genuine self-awareness through guidance, affirmation, and compassionate and straight-forward feedback. |
Treatment methods are designed to address your multi-faceted nature-emotional, physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual. I approach your care holistically, utilizing an integrated approach. Together, we will identify and build on your strengths, identify your goals, and adopt a treatment plan with interventions you are comfortable with.
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These may include:
• Dialogue to explore your goals, needs, feelings, desires, and challenges
• Explanations to help you understand what is happening and how to make lasting changes
• Mindfulness practices to strengthen your ability to navigate life’s challenges and build resilience
• Values clarification to help you live in integrity with your True self, and take personal accountability while releasing self-criticism and harsh judgement that no longer serves you
• Somatic-Experiencing to enhance your body’s ability to release stress and anxiety
• EMDR to reorganize traumatic memories that are hijacking your system
• Hypnosis to re-write beliefs that are preventing you from living the life you desire
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| A little more about me… While my professional experience as a family therapist spans over twenty years, that simply covers my years as a licensed therapist. The foundation for my approach to helping individuals and families restore harmony and find ease-of-being is firmly grounded in my unusual childhood and family life as I grew up in the Pacific Island paradise of Micronesia. This idyllic childhood instilled in me a vibrant joy of life, an unyielding appreciation of diversity, and an innate understanding of how to harmonize vast cultural differences within relationships. These ideals, insights, and skills have proven invaluable for relating to and supporting others throughout my professional career, first as an educator, and later as a family therapist. An abiding belief that happiness is a birthright of each person and that the human spirit is resilient, and growth-affirming makes it easy for me to hold the torch of hope for others. |
| If you think I can be of service, it would be my pleasure and honor to guide you on your healing journey. |
