About Us
Welcome to Helm & Harbor Counseling!
We specialize in supporting high-achieving professionals, including military veterans, first responders, healthcare workers, and therapists, who are navigating anxiety, trauma, substance use, and insomnia. Our team provides compassionate, personalized care to help you work through what’s weighing on you and find a clearer path forward.
We offer in-person therapy in San Diego and online therapy across California, Indiana, & Ohio.
You’re here because pushing through isn’t working anymore.
Together, we’ll uncover what’s driving the stress and create lasting change that sticks.
You’ve done your best to push through, to keep moving even when the worry, anxiety, or sleepless nights don’t let up. And it makes sense, you’ve had to hold it together for everyone else. But those same patterns keep showing up, and it’s exhausting.
Therapy gives you a space to be real, to sort through what’s happening beneath the surface, and to start making changes that actually last.
We Specialize in:
Women’s Trauma & Substance Use Skills Group
Therapy for Veterans
Our Approach is…
01
Individualized
Our approach isn’t one-size-fits-all. We’re a real person in the room with you; curious, compassionate, and fully engaged in figuring out what actually works for you.
02
Real
The relationship matters. Therapy works best when you feel safe, understood, and supported. We build a trusting relationship intentionally as part of the process, so you don’t just learn tools, you feel real change taking root.
03
Evidence-based, tailored to you
We draw from EMDR, ACT, KAP, CBT-I, and the Gottman Method, and adapt them to your specific goals and values.
Therapy Where You Can Be Real
Clients describe me as compassionate, honest, and easy to be real with. Many of the people we work with are therapists, healthcare workers, first responders, veterans, and other high-responsibility professionals. You don’t have to translate the culture or soften your words with me. We get the world you work in, and we hold what you share with respect and care.
What makes us good at this work is that we know how to help people through the hard moments without making it feel clinical or cold. You can be unfiltered. You can be messy. We’ll be right there with you: Walking alongside you, asking thoughtful questions, gently challenging the stuck spots, and laughing at your sarcasm and dark humor. Therapy with us is a real relationship with someone who is ready to help you work through the hardest parts of your story without judgment or hesitation.
Our Guiding Principles
Authenticity
We show up as a real person, not a blank slate, and we want you to feel safe doing the same. We’re both imperfect humans, and therapy works best when we can be honest and genuine with each other.
Humor
Healing can hold both serious work and laughter. We can do both in the same space.
True Healing
We’ll go beyond surface-level fixes to address the patterns, pain, and experiences at the root, so change is real and permanent.
Collaboration
We’re in this together. You bring your lived experience. I bring my training and perspective. We figure it out side by side.
Perspective
We help you see your experiences in new ways, uncover patterns you may not have noticed, and find possibilities for change that weren’t clear before.
Cultural Humility
We honor the diverse backgrounds and identities my clients bring, whether shaped by culture, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, neurodiversity, relationship structure, or lived experience. We approach your story with openness, curiosity, and respect, and we am committed to practicing with cultural humility and an awareness of how systemic factors impact mental health. We are an LGBTQIA+ affirming, neurodiversity-affirming, and polyamory-affirming practice.
