Santa Rosa Therapists specializing in Adolescent Issues

Krystal Ying

The teen years are notoriously tough! There are big changes in friendships, development, parent-child roles, and identity. With over 10 years of experience working with adolescents in various roles/settings, I love serving this population. I have provided trauma therapy to incarcerated youth and worked in school and community clinic settings. Specialized experience in: teen anxiety, self-esteem, identity, family/divorce issues, childhood abuse (including sexual abuse/assault), racial injustice.

Maggie Kohout

Welcome. I have experience helping people with many different things going on in their lives: anxiety, depression, stress and overwhelm, grief, sadness, anger, pain. A little bit about me, I have suffered with an autoimmune disease my whole life that I didn't have a name for until recently. I spent a lot of my life not feeling great and pushing myself to limits that were not alignment with my body's natural rhythms. My practice and specialty now is really built around you getting to know you.

Jamie McKenna

Transitions, identity, anxiety, grief, depression, social media, school challenges, peer circles, and new hobbies or interests... adolescence is full of changes and conflict. I love working with teens and have extensive experience working with teens and their caregivers.

Julie Waters

My clients are often seeking relief for emotional and mental distress and balance in life. I help to explore identity, build self-esteem, heal and change relationships to others, career, education, spirituality, sexuality, and finances. My clients want practical solutions that fit into their lives as well as increased self-awareness and self-growth. I love working with clients from a variety cultural backgrounds and identities.

Ben Schwarcz

I work best with motivated people who can recognize their pain as a doorway to deep personal growth and transformation. I have worked with a diverse range of clients, and relate best to those who are spiritual seekers/truth seekers, and those who sense that they are connected to something much larger than their limited ego/body/mind. I approach most issues from a trauma-informed perspective, as it is our unresolved past experiences that create our limiting patterns and subconscious programs.

Marcel Parker

As a justice oriented therapist who identifies as white, queer, and trans/non-binary, I approach therapy through a depathologizing lens. I honor all the brilliant, resourceful ways you have survived, thrived, and struggled in life. In our work together, I will do my best to do justice to the complexity of your lived experience. I offer telehealth (video and phone) therapy for individuals, couples, and families living in California.

Jane Paul

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in substance abuse and dependency recovery, family recovery, codependency, and personal transformation. My Masters in Counseling is from San Diego State University, I have 33 years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples, families, and groups.

Joy Linn

Are you curious about what lies deeper and want to uncover the root issues to your mental health concerns? Or maybe you feel really stuck or you're on the fence about letting go of problematic coping behaviors or high risk behaviors. If so, we would likely be a great match! I also welcome clients who have had bad experiences with mental health treatment in the past and are looking for a repairing experience with their new provider.

Melle Browning

Are you having difficulty being fully present or moving forward because you feel stuck in the pain of the past? Do you struggle in your relationships, confused about your reactions to others and your environment? Are you struggling with a transition in your life or your identity, not knowing where to go next? It can be hard to reach out, but you deserve support.

Leland van den Daele

My clients seek self-knowledge and through knowledge, mastery of their lives and relationships. Self-knowledge entails review of the significant influences on one's life which include personal history during childhood and youth. Through this examination, deep well springs of frustration and desire, fears and hopes, are illuminated. To know oneself is to know one's basic attachment style and the often invisible frameworks applied to self and relationships. No cookie-cutter approach fits all.

Paula Mierzejewski

Maya Lujan

Are you struggling to navigate life's stressors and transitions? Do you sometimes struggle with figuring out how to stay true to yourself while navigating life's demands? Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed and are not sure which path to head down? I hear you. Navigating through this world can be challenging, and we all need support and guidance from time to time. My goal is to help clients better understand their thoughts and emotions, as well as to live a fulfilling and authentic life.

sarah sherertz

We work with all aspects, The body with all its wisdom and symptoms, psyche and and it’s deeper longings and truths, and mind, our amazing brains that have been shaped by past experience and can be reshaped toward where we are and what we need in life now. Alleviating symptoms is the first step, but learning how to uncover, receive, use and grow from our authentic needs is the longer goal. My clients start from a wide variety of backgrounds with all kinds of symptoms.