Services
Abby offers psychotherapy in San Diego (and virtually throughout California) for wide range of issues, but is most known for these specialties. If you are interested in getting support for something not listed, please ask. If it is outside my scope of practice and experience, I can help you find a specialist that would be a better match.
Individual Counseling
Specialties
Relationship Counseling
Although I do not focus on relationship or couples counseling, I do have advanced training and more extensive experience in the following niches:
Relationship Counseling in the Context of Reproduction
Many times, partners are not on the same page when it comes to:
• deciding if/ when to have a family
• processing a reproductive loss
• adjusting to the postpartum stage
• becoming parents
• intimacy postpartum
• managing postpartum rage in the context of a relationship
• when more than one partner has perinatal mood or anxiety disorders
Relationship counseling for queer, poly, and trans folx
• “couple’s counseling” as a term doesn’t represent when more than two should participate
• queer family building
• trans and non-binary birthing experiences
• the complicated layers when one partner has infertility and the other does not
Clinical Supervision
Since 2008, Abby has enjoyed supervising newer therapists, including pre-license Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and graduate students of Masters of Social Work, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and Marriage and Family Therapy programs. Abby is trained by and approved by the University of Southern California, San Diego State University, Cal State San Marcos and the University of San Diego as a clinical supervisor. She is qualified by the BBS to supervise the hours of ASW’s, APCC’s and AMFT’s.
Adjunctive Services
If you and your regular therapist would like to add on a layer of one of my specialties, I’m happy to collaborate with you both. This could include:
- Clinical Hypnosis
- Brainspotting
- Postpartum Planning