Specialties &
Areas of Expertise
Boutique East Bay Therapy, Orinda, CA
Online throughout California
Explore the areas we most often support in therapy, each with its own dedicated page.
Therapy That Meets You Where You Are
At Bountiful Health, therapy is not about fitting yourself into a category or diagnosis. It’s about understanding what feels heavy, stuck, or unsettled, and having space to explore it with care and clarity.
Our work is relational, trauma-informed, and integrative, meaning therapy is collaborative, attuned, and responsive to you as a whole person. Many concerns overlap, and you don’t need to know which area fits best to begin. We’ll move at a pace that feels supportive and grounded.
Below are the areas we most often support in therapy. Each specialty represents a different doorway into the same depth-oriented work: helping you feel more connected to yourself, more at ease internally, and more able to move forward with intention.
Areas of Expertise:
EMOTIONAL STRUGGLES & INNER EXPERIENCES
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Anxiety, Stress, & Overwhelm
Anxiety often shows up as constant tension, racing thoughts, or the sense that it’s hard to fully rest or feel at ease. Therapy helps you understand what’s fueling anxiety and build more steadiness, clarity, and ease.
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Depression, Emotional Disconnection & Inner Emptiness
Depression may show up as heaviness, numbness, or a sense of disconnection from yourself and others. Therapy offers a supportive space to gently reconnect with your feelings, vitality, and sense of meaning.
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Perfectionism & the Inner Critic
Perfectionism can look like drive and competence on the outside while creating constant pressure and self-criticism internally. Therapy explores where these patterns formed and supports a more compassionate, flexible relationship with yourself.
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Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, & Shame
When self-doubt, comparison, or a harsh inner critic shape how you see yourself, it can feel difficult to feel grounded or enough. Therapy helps you step out of these patterns and reconnect with a steadier, more grounded sense of worth.
RELATIONAL HEALING & GRIEF
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Relationship Challenges & Attachment Wounds
Patterns in relationships often reflect earlier experiences of closeness, safety, and connection, even when those patterns no longer serve you. Therapy helps you understand these patterns, strengthen boundaries, and create more secure, fulfilling connections.
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Grief & Loss
Grief can follow many kinds of loss and often doesn’t move in a straight line. Therapy offers compassionate support as you move through grief at your own pace and in your own way.
IDENTITY, CHANGE & TRAUMA
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Life Transitions & Identity Shifts
Major changes, even expected ones, can unsettle your sense of identity, direction, and emotional balance. Therapy offers a steady place to navigate change, reflect on what matters, and reconnect with your sense of self.
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Complex & Developmental Trauma
Long-term or relational trauma can quietly shape how you experience safety, trust, emotions, and connection. Trauma-informed therapy provides a relational space to explore these experiences and slowly rebuild safety and trust.
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Personal Growth
Sometimes the desire for therapy comes not from crisis, but from wanting deeper self-understanding and more intentional ways of living. Therapy supports self-reflection, insight, and intentional change aligned with who you are becoming.
SUPPORT FOR SPECIFIC POPULATIONS
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Teen Counseling
Adolescence can bring emotional intensity, identity questions, and relational challenges that feel overwhelming to navigate alone. Teen counseling provides a supportive space to feel understood, build coping skills, and navigate challenges with care.
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Therapy for Therapists & Helping Professionals
When you spend your life supporting others, it can be hard to find space where your own experience takes priority. Therapy offers space to tend to your inner world beyond professional roles and responsibilities.
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Therapy for Third Culture Kids (TCKs)
Growing up across cultures can shape identity, belonging, and relationships in ways that are deeply meaningful, and often hard to name. Therapy supports Third Culture Kids in exploring these experiences and developing a stronger sense of belonging and home within themselves.
You Don’t Have to Figure This Out Alone
If you’re recognizing yourself in any of these experiences, therapy can offer a steady place to begin.
What to Expect When You Begin Therapy
Starting therapy can feel like a big step, but it doesn’t require having everything figured out. We’ll start with a free 20-minute consultation to see if it feels like a good fit, then move forward together at a pace that feels supportive.
The Heart of Our Work
At Bountiful Health, therapy is relational, personal, and intentionally paced. As a boutique practice with a small caseload, we offer focused, attuned care rooted in compassion, trust, and trauma-informed depth, creating space for you to feel seen, supported, and able to move toward meaningful change.
Learn more about our therapeutic approach.
Not sure which specialty fits?
We’ll figure it out together.
Frequently Asked Questions About
Specialties and Areas of Expertise
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You don’t need to fit into a single category. Many people experience overlapping concerns, and therapy is tailored to your whole experience, not confined to labels.
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Yes. Therapy often works across multiple areas simultaneously, responding to what feels most present and meaningful for you.
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Start with the page that resonates most—or simply feels closest. You don’t need certainty before reaching out.
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No. These specialties reflect common experiences that bring people to therapy. The work itself is relational, integrative, and individualized.
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That’s completely okay. Many people begin therapy with a felt sense that something isn’t quite right. Clarity often emerges through the process.
