msmaychaoheller@gmail.com
LCS 61312 – (510) 332-2530
When encountering challenging life transitions, unexpected circumstances, and difficult personal struggles, the stressors and uncertainties that we deal with can often leave us feeling ungrounded and off-balance. We may find ourselves stuck in a place that does not resonate with the vision we have of our most whole and healthy selves. Particularly during these times, being able to work with a therapist whose approach matches our needs can provide long-term benefits in our ability to establish and/or reconnect with our internal sense of strength, healing, and wellness.
My therapeutic approach stems from the deep respect that I have for the resilience and capacity for growth and development that I have witnessed – time and time again – in the clients with whom I have the honor to work. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCS 61312) with my Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, I have been in private practice since 2014, working with individuals, couples, and families. I am bilingual (English-Mandarin) and welcome cross-cultural and inter-generational work with my clients.
Individual client work – includes processing grief and loss, stress management, depression, anxiety, trauma, and navigation through life’s many transitions. Using an integrative systems-theory, relational, and psychodynamic framework, we explore how personal experiences and operating principles shape one’s existing perspectives, and then utilize this understanding to help achieve the shifts clients are seeking. Therapy sessions focus on leveraging personal strengths, addressing barriers and undesired patterns, and working to establish a path toward reconnecting with an internal sense of groundedness, wholeness, and fulfillment, according to each client’s unique sense of self, surroundings, and core values.
Couples client work – informed by the Developmental Model for Couples Therapy framework, and centers on co-creating a space to explore how the concepts of attachment, differentiation, and neuroscience are involved in working with two individuals within their relationship. Couples therapy sessions are designed to build understanding of the relational default dynamics that exist, and work towards co-creating new and intentional patterns of interaction with which to move forward.
My office is located off of Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, and if you would like to make an appointment with me, please feel free to email me at msmaychaoheller@gmail.com.