How I work

My practice integrates existential, humanistic, and contemporary psychoanalytic approaches to psychotherapy. This means that our work together will endeavor to go beyond strategies for short term symptom relief or behavior modification, moving to also address the roots of suffering and invite deeper transformation. Together, we embark on a relationship. In the unique dynamic we create, new possibilities emerge. We surprise ourselves. We play and we invent. We get curious. We grieve, we rage, we celebrate. We hope. We make meaning, awaken to mystery. We get to know you. And by the singular relationship that is ours, we are changed.

What brought me here

I come to Joe Latuga Psychotherapy and Coaching from the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, where my clinical focus centered on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and substance use. There I had the privilege of working with clients across diverse cultural and racial backgrounds, socioeconomic strata, ages, gender identities, sexual orientations, and mental health challenges. This experience continues to inform my practice today as one that affirms BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ individuals, CNM, kink, sex work, and harm reduction. I believe that individual care and collective liberation are reciprocal. I received my master’s degree in counseling psychology from The Wright Institute, and continue to advance my practice through ongoing case conference with the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). I love what I do.

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