GIVING SHAPE TO HOW YOU FEEL
Helping adults and kids
feel safe, seen and understood.
quiet suffering
Even when you’re surrounded by people who care about you, depression can still feel isolating. Anxiety can make every thought louder, every decision heavier. Overwhelm can build quietly until you’re carrying more than you can explain. Maybe you don’t want to burden the people you love, or maybe you need space to untangle what’s happening without having to hold it all together for everyone else.
this way isn’t working
You’ve been holding everything together for so long that you may not even notice how much it’s costing you. Pushing feelings down, avoiding discomfort, or staying stuck in overthinking can slowly leave you disconnected from yourself, exhausted, and unsure of what you actually need. Anxiety keeps your mind spinning. Depression can make you feel numb, distant, or heavy in ways that are hard to explain. And the longer you ignore what’s underneath, the harder it becomes to trust yourself or feel grounded in your own life.
The goal isn’t to feel happy all the time. It’s to better understand your emotions, recognize how they shape your thoughts and reactions, and learn how to stay present with discomfort instead of feeling controlled by it. Life may not look the way you imagined, and change can feel overwhelming, but small shifts in awareness and understanding can begin to create real movement. You deserve to feel more connected to yourself again.
BE WHO YOU NEED
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Board Certified Art Therapist, I meet you where you are — not where you think you should be. Therapy can be a place to slow down, understand what’s driving the anxiety, depression, overwhelm, or self-criticism, and start feeling more connected to yourself.
You don’t need to become a “better” version of yourself to deserve care. Real change doesn’t come from forcing positivity or finding a quick fix. It comes from learning how to understand your emotions, tolerate discomfort, and respond to yourself differently.
My approach is client-centered, relational, and insight-oriented. Together, we’ll look at the patterns, beliefs, and experiences shaping the way you move through life and create goals that actually fit you. I’m less interested in surface-level coping skills and more interested in helping you build self-awareness that leads to lasting change.
This is my inner child.→
Hi. I’m DANIELA
I couldn’t imagine graduating kindergarten, let alone becoming an adult. I never would’ve believed I’d travel the world, spend a decade as a creative director, or leave the stable life I built to return to graduate school and become an Art Therapist.
Back then, I didn’t have words like bisexual, pronouns, or Latina. I only knew I wanted to feel safe being myself.
If you’d told my younger self any of this, she probably would’ve blinked at you and gone back to coloring.
the art of becoming yourself
I offer a steady, supportive space to sit with what feels difficult and begin to understand it. From there, we find ways to move forward that feel more connected, manageable, and true to you.