Inclusive, Empowering Therapy for LGBTQ+ Adults and Adult Children of Immigrants in Oakland & Online in California
Depth-oriented therapy for high-achieving adults who learned to survive by staying in control & want to learn to let go
Who am I if I don’t hold it all together?
Who am I if I let myself be imperfect?
Who am if I let go of control?
Your usual patterns of staying in control, over-achieving, and managing everyone and everything aren’t cutting it. You’re overwhelmed with anxiety that won’t let up. Your relationships are suffering for it. You feel far away from your authentic self that exists beneath the debilitating effort to keep it together and do it all.
The idea of letting go can feel terrifying. It can bring up questions of identity, purpose, and self-worth.
In my practice, I work with high-achieving, people-pleasing, and over-functioning adults who identify as LGBTQ+, trans, genderfluid & nonbinary, and/or children of immigrants. Together, we gently surrender old patterns and embrace who you get to become on the other side.
Hi, I’m Luca (they/he). I’m a queer, trans, mixed race therapist. I want to help you return to your purpose and sense of self outside of the heavy emotional lifting you do for everyone else.
Through deep personal connection to this work, I specialize in supporting LGBTQ+ adults and adult children of immigrants who want to find their way back to the authentic connection with themselves.
As an integrative therapist, I use a comprehensive mind-body approach that allows you to feel safe enough to let go of fear and control. You’ll learn to liberate yourself from self-abandonment and trust your inherent intuition for guidance.
Whether we’re meeting in person in Oakland or connecting through online therapy across the SF Bay Area & California, you can expect a space where you’re invited to return, over and over again, back to yourself.
Moment by moment, I’ll help you release the patterns that no longer support your purpose, and surrender to the process of cultivating the freer, embodied and intuitive life that feels more like you.
In my queer, liberation-focused practice, you can expect:
Openness to being two full humans together
Listening with presence
Grounded energy
Giggles, chuckles, and full belly laughs
Lots of expressive gestures!
An intuitive sense of your pace
A whole-hearted commitment to your healing
A gift for understanding your suffering in context, including the wisdom in how you learned to survive
Celebration of your courage
A challenge when you need help seeing the way
A soft place to land when you’re right where you need to be
I specialize in working with LGBTQ+ adults, trans, non-binary, genderfluid, and questioning adults, and adult children of immigrants. My clients are high-achievers, people-pleasers, and perfectionists who learned to survive by being of service and performing excellence.
When clients reach out to me, they’re seeking relief from the unrelenting anxiety and relationship strain that has built up from years of trying to take care of everything and everyone. They want to find out who they are beneath the expectations to be of service.
In my Lake Merritt office in Oakland and online throughout the East Bay and California, I enjoy working with people who are self-reflective and curious about themselves. They’re done with feeling limited by coping strategies that create more chaos than calm, and feel courageous to explore what’s going on, even when the answers aren’t clear and the path to change feels scary. They’re ready to take some risks to create a freer, more authentic life where they’re at the center.
My practice is for people who no longer want to white-knuckle it through life.
If you feel restricted by the anxiety and relationship stress that comes from taking care of others at the expense of yourself, then this work is for you.
I hope that, in reading through the possibilities of what working together can offer you, you can feel, even just a tiny bit, a sense of softening. Of relaxing into a more easeful, embodied kind of life.
Whether we’re connecting for online therapy across California or meeting together at my Lake Merritt office in Oakland, I’ll help you heal the wounds that keep you disconnected from yourself and guide you into the freedom to fully enjoy life from the inside out.
“And it’s inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.”
Clarice Lispector