Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #153050
providing virtual therapy throughout California
For People Who Want Better
Down to Earth +Authentic+Evidence Informed Private Psychotherapy
Reconnect With What Matters Most
My clients are often biohackers, alternative thinkers, and people allergic to bullshit.
People who don’t fit neatly into conventional medical
or insurance-based models and want grounded, honest,
meaningful psychotherapy.
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Stop betraying yourself to keep relationships
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Get honest about what isn't working for you
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Work towards feeling secure when alone
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Gain clarity about boundaries
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Stand fully in who you are and who you are becoming
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Work through grief
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Recognize your relational patterns
I work with adults navigating:
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Grief and loss (including non-death loss)
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Life transitions and major life changes
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Boundaries, self-trust, self-worth, perfectionism and overwhelm
Specialized areas of focus:
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Therapy for terminal illness and cancer
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Chronic illness and chronic pain
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Supporting life with cancer for those choosing alternative or integrative care
ABOUT PORCUPINE GARDEN PSYCHOTHERAPY
MY APPROACH
MEET DR T
My work is about helping people come home to themselves fully, honestly, and without apology.
I create a grounded, supportive space where you can slow down, tell the truth about what’s actually happening in your life, and begin to untangle the thoughts, patterns, and relationships that keep pulling you away from who you know yourself to be.
I believe in real therapy for real people. My style is direct, compassionate, and practical with warmth, precision, and a sense of humor. I will sit with you in the hard places, name what I see, challenge self-abandonment, and help you build the internal strength and boundaries needed to live with clarity and integrity.
Together we:
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Track repeating relational patterns
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work to strengthen boundaries and self-trust
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move through grief, identity shifts, and loss (including the living losses)
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Reclaim power without becoming hardened
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And reconnect you to what actually matters
This work isn’t about fixing what’s “wrong” with you.
It’s about helping you remember who you are and live from that place again.
In working with you I combine a strong behavioral and attachment-based foundation with a holistic, intuitive, and relational way of working. I integrate evidence-informed and experiential methods including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), attachment-based approaches, and Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB).
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These frameworks allow us to work at the levels of Nervous system regulation
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Emotional patterning
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Attachment and identity
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Meaning, values, and choice I don’t operate from a rigid agenda or a one-size-fits-all model. I respect your autonomy, your intelligence, and your lived experience. My role is not to tell you who to be or solve your problems. My role is more to help you:
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Strengthen self-trust
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Clarify what actually matters to you
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Interrupt the patterns that keep duplicating pain
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And build resilience from the inside out
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This work is both grounded and intuitive, direct and compassionate, rooted in science, guided by relationship, and paced to match your nervous system rather than overwhelm it.
"It should be remembered that a successful therapy requires
harmony of the physical and psychological functions, in order to achieve arestoration of the body in its entirety"
Max Gerson
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